LOS ANGELES- Hollywood actor Johnny Depp and the actress Amber Heard are engaged to be married, People magazine reported. "They couldn't be happier to be engaged and excited to share the rest of...

ROME, Dario Thuburn- Italian conductor Claudio Abbado, who pushed to open the music world to a wider public and was loved by orchestras for his gentle manner, died Monday after a stellar career that...

LOS ANGELES, Leila Macor- Crime caper "American Hustle" won the top film prize at the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) awards on Saturday, earning another big boost in Hollywood's all-important Oscars race....

RIGA- Latvians on Saturday marked the start of Riga's tenure as one of two European capitals of culture with an emotional ceremony recalling the Baltic states' 1989 fight for independence from the...

JAKARTA, Presi Mandari- A leading Italian violinist has swapped gilded concert halls for audiences of street children around the world, using music therapy to help those less fortunate. Sara...

MADRID, Elodie Cuzin- "Brokeback Mountain", the Oscar-winning epic about the relationship between two cowboys in the American West, is coming to the stage as an opera, with a world premiere in Madrid...

LONDON- A team of archaeologists said Friday they may have found one of the bones of King Alfred the Great, who fought off the Vikings and laid the foundations for the English nation. Tests showed...

NEW YORK- A record-breaking number of people have flocked to a Dutch Old Masters exhibition in New York, fueled by a best-selling novel featuring one of the paintings on display. The Frick Collection...

WARSAW- Poland's Catholic Church on Thursday unveiled a painting kept hidden because of its controversial depiction of Jews murdering Christian children, saying it wanted to foster interfaith...