PARIS, FRANCE, Helen Rowe- French dancer Sylvie Guillem is to bring down the curtain on a glittering career that saw her plucked from relative obscurity by Rudolf Nureyev to become the world's most...

TOKYO, JAPAN- A talkshow host peering out of a man's stomach and a piece of skin peeling away from a hand to unveil tangerine segments beneath are two of the impossible visions offered by one...

Washington, US- Soap bubbles, little green army men and Rubik's Cube are the latest inductees to the US National Toy Hall of Fame, the National Museum of Play announced Thursday. They were among 12...

PARIS, FRANCE, Myriam Chaplain Riou- A former psychiatrist, Lydie Salvayre, on Wednesday won France's top literary prize, the Goncourt, for her book "Pas pleurer" ("Don't cry") in which she...

NEW YORK, US- Beyonce on Tuesday announced an expanded boxed-set of her multimillion-selling self-titled album as a new study ranked her as the past year's top-earning woman in music. After rumors...

LOS ANGELES, US- As Americans went to the polls for mid-term elections Tuesday, Angelina Jolie revealed that she is open to a possible role in politics, diplomacy or public service. The A-list star,...

WASHINGTON, US- The US Supreme Court refused to hear a petition by the heirs of author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on Monday, leaving the adventures of fictional crime solver Sherlock Holmes in the public...

BERLIN, GERMANY, Deborah Cole- A daring escape across the Berlin Wall, then audacious dashes back to the East to spirit another 30 people to freedom -- Hartmut Richter's true story is the stuff of a...

NEW YORK, US, Shaun Tandon- Two years after his history-making 1965 electric performance, Bob Dylan holed himself up in a basement in upstate New York and played what became some of the most famous...