MOSCOW- The freed Russian ex-tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky is likely to stay out of politics but may write about Russia in the same way as the celebrated dissident Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn,...
LUANDA- US singer Mariah Carey has aroused the indignation of human rights activists after performing in front of Angola's veteran President Jose Eduardo dos Santos for a reported $1 million. The...
NEW YORK- The American who won a $1 million Picasso painting in an international raffle told AFP on Thursday that he celebrated with a dinner out on the town. Jeffrey Gonano, 25, a project manager...
ROME, Dario Thuburn- Griffins, sirens and minotaurs went on display in Rome on Thursday for an exhibition on monsters of antiquity with Hollywood special effects experts still inspired by the...
CAIRO- A homeless Sudanese writer and painter Mohammed Hussein Bahnass, who lived on the streets of Cairo, has died from cold in the Egyptian capital, colleagues and local media reported Thursday....
ISTANBUL- An Istanbul court on Tuesday suspended the trial of a Turkish publisher and a translator accused of corrupting public morals over a French book written more than a century ago. The case...
MONACO- Charlotte Casiraghi, the eldest daughter of Princess Caroline of Monaco, has given birth to a son, the Riviera principality's royal palace announced on Wednesday. Baby Raphael, a first child...
JERUSALEM- A young man on Tuesday disrupted a conference in Jerusalem on Richard Wagner, considered Hitler's favourite composer, Haaretz newspaper said on its website. The Jerusalem Symphony...
LOS ANGELES- The body behind the Oscars has unveiled a new logo that it hopes will focus more attention on the organization's wider work in addition to Hollywood's biggest trophy fest. The...
LONDON, Danny Kemp- Tributes and tales of carousing poured in Monday after the death of legendary actor Peter O'Toole, whose hellraising antics could not outshine his star turn in Oscar-winning epic...
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