HOLLYWOOD, Michael Thurston- Hollywood counted down the hours Sunday as stars gathered for the most fiercely contested Oscars show in decades, with three movies leading the field for Tinseltown's...
LONDON- Prince William and his wife Catherine will take their baby son Prince George with them on their tour of Australia and New Zealand next month, Kensington Palace confirmed Sunday. The little...
SANTA MONICA- "12 Years a Slave" won big at the Independent Spirit Awards Saturday, taking home five trophies including best feature and building up momentum on the eve of the Oscars. The searing...
WASHINGTON, Jean-Louis Santini- Early Native Americans spent millenia living on the Bering Land Bridge now buried under water before they appeared in Alaska and the rest of the North America,...
PARIS, Helen Rowe- Julie Gayet, the woman outed as French President Francois Hollande's lover, made her first high-profile appearance since news of the affair broke when she arrived Friday at...
NAJAF- Iraq opened a museum in the Shiite pilgrimage city of Najaf on Thursday commemorating a 1920 uprising against British occupation in a building that once housed captured soldiers. The opening...
SANTILLANA DEL MAR, Elodie Cuzin- With its 14,000-year-old red bison, Spain's Altamira cave paintings reopened to a handful of visitors Thursday, giving them a glimpse of some of the world's most...
STOCKHOLM- Stockholm's Museum of Modern Art said Wednesday it had received a donation including two Picasso paintings from the widow of a Swedish media tycoon. The gift comprises eight artworks...
METZ, Etienne Balmer- Normally relegated to the bottom of the artistic heap, paparazzi are getting their own French art exhibition, just weeks after one of them managed to wreck the president's...
LOS ANGELES- "Die Hard" director John McTiernan was released from prison Tuesday after nearly a year behind bars in connection with a wire-tapping scandal, his wife said. Tiernan, whose films also...