SAQQARA- Egypt unveiled Thursday the 3,000 year-old tombs of two senior pharaonic military men in the famed Saqqara necropolis, one of them decorated with well-preserved reliefs depicting the...

UDINE, Mathew Scott- The director of a post-apocalyptic thriller that has taken Hong Kong's box office by storm says the film has struck a chord in a city grappling with its identity under Chinese...

CORSIER-SUR-VEVEY, Marie-Noëlle Blessig- After more than 14 years of discussions and stumbling blocks, work to turn screen legend Charlie Chaplin's Swiss home into a museum has finally begun, with...

COPENHAGEN, Sören Billing- The stage is set for a nailbiter as Denmark on Saturday hosts the Eurovision Song Contest -- the annual music spectacle known for its heady mix of glamour, politics and...

ROME- Florence's museums authority on Tuesday played down the risk of Michelangelo's 500-year-old David statue falling down because of fractures in its ankles. "Even if there is an earthquake of 5.0...

PARIS- Five years after it closed for a two-year renovation, Paris's Picasso museum -- which houses one of the world's most extensive collections of the Spanish master's work -- will finally reopen...

MONACO- Monaco's royals on Friday accused those behind a biopic starring Nicole Kidman as their mother Grace of hijacking their family history, just days before the film premieres at the Cannes Film...

LONDON, Robin Millard- Publicity mastermind Max Clifford, the king of British tabloid kiss-and-tell exposés, was sentenced to eight years in jail on Friday for multiple sex assaults against...

PARIS, Marie-Pierre Ferey- At 75, Ariane Mnouchkine has not given up on changing the world. "And for some people that can be very tiring," smiles the half-English, half-Russian visionary who, in...