Beijing, China- An Italian historian's theory that Mona Lisa might be a Chinese slave and Leonardo da Vinci's mother -- making the 15th-century polymath half-Chinese -- sent online commentators into...

LONDON, UK- A rare dinosaur skeleton goes on display at London's Natural History museum on Thursday -- the first to be exhibited there in a century. The near-complete fossilised remains of a...

NEW YORK, US, Shaun Tandon- Taylor Swift has accused Spotify of harming the music industry, but she returned to number one Wednesday as the benchmark US album chart for the first time factored in...

ROME, ITALY- Nearly four decades after his murder, the mystery surrounding the death of acclaimed Italian film director and poet Pier Paolo Pasolini has been given a dramatic new twist. A prosecutor...

LONDON, UK- New films based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien are only possible with the permission of the author's estate, "Hobbit" director Peter Jackson said on Tuesday. The New Zealand director was...

NEW YORK, US- The New York Botanical Garden will host an exhibition next year of work by late Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, recreating the her workspace and focusing on her interest in the plant...

LOS ANGELES, UNITED STATES- Austrian double-Oscar winner Christoph Waltz was honored with a star on Tinseltown's storied Walk of Fame on Monday -- with Quentin Tarantino first in line to pay tribute....

BEIRUT, LEBANON, Rana Moussaoui- Lebanese poet Said Aql, whose work was loved by Arab readers but who hated Arabism so much that he invented a latinised version of the Lebanese dialect, died Friday...

ISTANBUL, TURKEY, Stuart Williams- The Hagia Sophia, which the pope visits Sunday on his tour of Istanbul, has in the course of some 15 centuries of its history served as a church, a mosque and now a...