LONDON, Rhamane Dalon- Fictional boy wizard Harry Potter made his first appearance in seven years on Tuesday, featuring as a nearly 34-year-old with grey hairs in a new short story by author J.K....

LONDON- A lost Van Dyck painting spotted on a British television programme failed to find a buyer at a Tuesday auction despite estimates it would fetch 1,000 times its original price. Auctioneers...

SLIPPERY ROCK, Fabienne Faur- On a warm summer's day in the tranquil Pennsylvania countryside, elves battle crusaders, hobbits clash with knights, and archers target samurai swordsmen. And everyone...

ABUJA- Nigerian censors on Friday approved the release of the civil war film "Half of a Yellow Sun" after a more than two-month delay during which the producers agreed to edit certain scenes. The...

LOS ANGELES, Sara Puig- Ker-pow! Batman is celebrating his 75th birthday this month with a series of comic-book, video-game and other events putting Gotham's famed Caped Crusader firmly back in the...

AVIGNON, Marie-Pierre Ferey- The two opening shows of France's prestigious Avignon Festival -- one of the world's biggest theatre showcases -- were cancelled hours before curtain up on Friday after...

RABAT- Human Rights Watch warned Tuesday of political motives behind the jailing of a dissident Moroccan rapper and demanded that any appeals trial admit key evidence the judge rejected in convicting...

WARSAW- A German teacher was detained at the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz in southern Poland for trying to smuggle out prisoner possessions, the site's museum said on Wednesday. Museum guards...

LONDON, Katherine Haddon- Veteran entertainer Rolf Harris, a household name in Britain since the 1960s, could face jail after his conviction Monday on 12 counts of indecently assaulting girls....