WASHINGTON, Jo Biddle- Feted actress Scarlett Johansson is denounced as the "poster girl of Israeli apartheid," Dennis Rodman enters rehab after leaving North Korea, Kim Kardashian is the butt of...

BERLIN, Deborah Cole- A lush period drama about one of Germany's most treasured writers and his 13-year-long menage-a-trois with two beautiful sisters premiered Saturday at the Berlin film festival....

CHICAGO- In a stirring finale after a discordant series of events, US police recovered a rare Stradivarius violin that had been snatched from the concert master of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. A...

CAIRO- Egypt's antiquities ministry on Thursday revealed what it called conclusive evidence that revolutionary pharaoh Akhenaten shared power with his father. Scholars had long debated whether...

TOKYO- A small Japanese town was fuming at best-selling novelist Haruki Murakami on Wednesday after a new story appeared to suggest its residents habitually throw lit cigarettes from car windows. The...

MADRID, Sylvie Groult- A judge will quiz Spanish King Juan Carlos's youngest daughter Cristina on Saturday over fraud allegations in a corruption scandal -- a historic first for the troubled royal...

LAGOS, Cecile De Comarmond- Nigerian photographer JD 'Okhai Ojeikere, whose images of traditional African hairstyles won him plaudits at home and abroad, has died at the age of 83, his family said on...

ROME- A virtually unknown novel by Charlie Chaplin -- the only book the silent film comic ever wrote -- is being made public for the first time. "Footlights", which will be unveiled in London later...

NEW YORK- Legendary film director Woody Allen hit back Sunday at his adopted daughter's allegations of sexual abuse during her youth, calling them "untrue and disgraceful." In a strongly-worded...