VATICAN CITY- The Vatican on Friday received a request to beatify an Italian Jesuit priest favoured by Pope Francis whose attempts to evangelise China in the 16th century were thwarted by the Church....
SINGAPORE- A government-run Singapore museum said Thursday it was considering legal action against a prominent New York art gallery accused of selling stolen Asian artefacts. The Asian Civilisations...
LONDON, Guy Jackson- Space drama "Gravity" received 11 Bafta nominations on Wednesday, one more than the hotly-tipped "12 Years a Slave" as Britain's equivalent awards pointed the way to Oscars...
NEW YORK- "Saturday Night Live" has picked a New York-based stand-up comedienne as its first black female cast member since 2007, as it aims to put a flap over its lack of racial and gender diversity...
PARIS- France's former first lady, singer Carla Bruni has cancelled two legs of her upcoming North America tour, her agent said Tuesday. Bertrand de Labbey said two concerts in Canada had been...
KATHMANDU, Ammu Kannampilly- Two archaeologists had a hunch that the Buddha's birthplace in southern Nepal held secrets that could transform how the world understood the emergence and spread of...
LOS ANGELES- Film producer Saul Zaentz, winner of best picture Oscars for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," "Amadeus" and "The English Patient," has died at age 92, US media reported Saturday....
LOS ANGELES- The music world paid tribute on Saturday to Phil Everly, half of the famed 1950s and '60s pop duo the Everly Brothers, who has died at the age of 74. Everly, a longtime smoker, died on...
TRIPOLI- A decades-old library owned by a Greek Orthodox priest in north Lebanon's majority Sunni city of Tripoli was torched late Friday, a day after a sectarian scuffle, a security source said....
KUALA LUMPUR- Malaysian Islamic authorities on Thursday seized hundreds of Bibles from a Christian group and questioned two of its officers, one of them said, amid tensions over the use of the word...
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