LOS ANGELES- Famed mob boss Tony Soprano did not die at the end of the iconic TV show's last season, its creator revealed Wednesday. The infamous final scene, which fades to black on Soprano eating...

VENICE, Ella Ide- The Venice film festival kicks off Wednesday with the arrival of stars by water taxi for an art house dominated line-up rich with tales of war, poetry and the mafia. Taking the...

LONDON- British director and actor Richard Attenborough has died aged 90 after a sparkling career spanning six decades, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) said on Sunday. "We are...

BANGALORE- Acclaimed Indian writer Udupi Rajagopalacharya Ananthamurthy, famed for his novels and poems, died Friday at the age of 82 from renal failure. Ananthamurthy, who wrote in the southern...

NEW YORK- New York's Metropolitan Opera announced Wednesday it has reached an agreement with stagehands that will allow it to start its season on schedule. The opera said it had worked a new contract...

PARIS, Claude Casteran- The liberation of the bar of the Ritz Hotel in Paris by the writer Ernest Hemingway 70 years ago, as the French capital was freed from its Nazi occupiers, is the stuff of...

LONDON- The late singer Amy Winehouse will be honoured with a lifesize statue in her old London neighbourhood on what would have been her 31st birthday, her family said Thursday. The bronze of the...

THE HAGUE- A Dutch museum said on Wednesday it would delay the return of Crimean archaeological treasures it is exhibiting, fearing a legal tussle with either Russia or Ukraine. The priceless...

OSLO- The father of Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik will publish a book in October entitled "My Fault? A Father's Story" on his role in fathering a killer, his publisher announced...