LOS ANGELES, US- Director Tim Burton and his long-time actress partner Helena Bonham Carter have separated after 13 years together, a spokeswoman confirmed Tuesday. A representative for Bonham...

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES- Singer Alberta Adams, who was known as Detroit's "Queen of the Blues" before a career resurgence in her 80s, has died at age 97, her label said Friday. "On the big scale, she...

CAIRO, EGYPT- Egypt has banned the Hollywood biblical epic movie "Exodus: Gods and Kings" citing historical inaccuracies, the culture minister said Friday, a day after a similar move by Morocco. The...

RABAT, MOROCCO- Morocco has banned cinemas from showing the biblical epic "Exodus: Gods and Kings" just one day before the Hollywood blockbuster was due to be screened, media reports said Thursday....

TOURS, FRANCE, Christian Panvert- Jean Jude, glasses perched on the end of his nose, is practising scales when his visitor arrives. "Sorry there isn't much room in here," Jude says, getting up from...

PARIS, FRANCE- A sculpture by US pop artist Jeff Koons has been pulled from a retrospective of his work at the Centre Pompidou in Paris after he was accused of ripping off a French clothing advert,...

NEW YORK, US- Moody's on Monday downgraded the credit rating of New York's Metropolitan Opera, voicing concern over the ability of North America's largest classical music company to improve its...

ROME, ITALY- Conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim has become the latest artist to interrupt a concert to tick off the audience for taking photographs, slamming flash-happy fans at Milan's...

SANTIAGO, CHILE, Paulina Abramovich- The tortured romance between Sehrazat and Onur, the central drama of Turkish soap opera "Thousand and One Nights," is taking Chilean television by storm and...