DUBAI- Palestinian thriller "Omar", a tale of love, betrayal and struggle in the Israeli-occupied territories, on Friday scooped two top prizes at the Dubai International Film Festival. Omar won the...

ABIDJAN, Joris Fioriti- Pathe Ouedraogo can barely keep up with demand for his "Mandela shirts" since Nelson Mandela died last week. The man whose designs were made famous by the anti-apartheid icon...

PARIS- Repetitive migraines lie at the heart of "Siegfried," the second part of Richard Wagner's "Ring" trilogy of operas, German neurologists suggest. Both the action and the music of "Siegfried"...

NAPLES- Nativity scene artisans in Italy have taken Pope Francis's social message to heart this Christmas, giving a bigger role to ordinary people in their work and reviving the tradition's simple...

PARIS- Senegal's Ousmane Sow, who sculpted Nelson Mandela as a goalkeeper extending his hand "to keep corrupt African heads of state at bay", was on Wednesday honoured in his adoptive France. At a...

SOWETO, Andrew Beatty- Enduring a day-long downpour, tens of thousands of South Africans took up the torch carried by their nation's founding father Nelson Mandela, passionately endorsing calls to...

LONDON- More than 500 authors, including J. M. Coetzee and Gunter Grass, have signed a petition to the United Nations published Tuesday which claims mass state surveillance is violating basic...

DUBAIBELGRADE, Acil Tabbara, Aleksandra Niksic- Can a smash TV soap bring closure for historical wrongs and succour from contemporary turmoil? Check out a Turkish series on the 16th-century Ottoman...

PARIS- What was it like to live in the leafy Shire, the starting point of Bilbo Baggins' trek in "The Hobbit"? And how did Frodo and Sam feel as, step by step, they made their way across the...