Arts

Dolly Parton draws biggest crowd at UK's Glastonbury - 06/30/2014

LONDON- Country music star Dolly Parton drew the biggest crowd of Britain's Glastonbury music festival on Sunday, regaling the dusty crowd with hits while dressed in a white diamante suit. Over...

Sarajevo marks 100 years since shots that sparked Great War - 06/29/2014

SARAJEVO, Rusmir Smajilhodzic- Bosnia marked 100 years since the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo that sparked World War I, but the divisive legacy of the gunman Gavrilo...

US actor charged after disrupting Broadway musical - 06/29/2014

NEW YORK- Hollywood actor Shia LaBeouf, star of three "Transformers" movies, was hauled before a New York court Friday, charged with criminal trespass and disorderly conduct at a Broadway musical....

Soul singer Bobby Womack dead at 70: report - 06/28/2014

LOS ANGELES- Legendary US soul singer Bobby Womack died Friday aged 70, Rolling Stone magazine reported, citing a representative of his record label. Womack wrote a number of R&B staples including...

Veterans commemorate vital 'Battle of Imphal' in India - 06/28/2014

IMPHAL, Biju Boro- Veterans and dignitaries commemorated the 70th anniversary Friday of one of the fiercest but largely unknown battles of World War II which pitted British-led forces against...

Germany seeks to keep effective ban on 'Mein Kampf' reprints - 06/27/2014

BERLIN- Germany wants to uphold an effective post-war ban on the publication of Adolf Hitler's manifesto "Mein Kampf" after its copyright comes up for grabs at the end of next year, officials said...

Nyong'o, Pharrell Williams among new Academy members - 06/27/2014

LOS ANGELES- Kenyan Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o, Somalia's Barkhad Abdi, "Happy" songster Pharrell Williams and Irish-German star Michael Fassbender are among 271 actors newly invited to join...

Spain's Princess Cristina, husband suffer downfall - 06/25/2014

MADRID, David Williams- A beaming Princess Cristina and her new husband the six-foot six-inch Olympic athlete Inaki Undangarin waved from an open-top Rolls-Royce to crowds of well-wishers on their...

Australia cancels 'Honour Killings Are Morally Justified' talk - 06/25/2014

SYDNEY- A planned talk on whether honour killings can be morally justified as part of Sydney's Festival of Dangerous Ideas has been cancelled following public outrage, officials said. Uthman Badar,...

Five years after death, Jackson's fortunes blooming - 06/25/2014

LOS ANGELES, Michael Thurston- Michael Jackson fans will place flowers on his grave in Los Angeles this week to mark the fifth anniversary of his death, but half a decade on, the pop icon's financial...
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