JOHANNESBURG- British comic Russell Brand cancelled his six-date South African tour on Saturday, after he was blocked from flying to the country because his passport did not have enough blank pages....
The jury headed by US director James Gray awarded the prize for best director to Japan's Kiyoshi Kurosawa for "Seventh Code", an industrial espionage action flick. A special jury prize went to "Quod...
MOSCOW- The Russian authorities have launched a hooliganism probe against a performance artist who nailed his scrotum to the ground on Moscow's Red Square last week, police said Friday. Hooliganism...
PARIS, Helen Rowe- Don't ask horror writer Stephen King where he gets his ideas from. He doesn't know. But the American author who has written over 50 novels and sold 350 million copies worldwide...
LONDON- British composer John Tavener, whose spiritually inspired music was performed at the funeral of Princess Diana, has died at the age of 69, his publisher said Tuesday. Tavener's classical...
PARIS- A Paris theatre's technical director died of a heart attack overnight after a malfunctioning power tool set off an explosion at the theatre, investigators said Saturday. Marcus Toledano, 41,...
SANTIAGO- Forensic experts who examined the remains of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda found no evidence he was poisoned to death during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, an official said Friday. "No...
CAIRO- Egypt said Sunday that it has recovered 90 ancient artefacts that were put on sale by a Jerusalem auction house, and has asked Israel to find other antiquities and return them to Cairo. The...
AMSTERDAM, Charles Onians- US pop sensationalist Miley Cyrus took her publicity-seeking further still on Sunday by smoking a cannabis joint as she received her award for Best Video at the MTV...
PARIS, Bénédicte Rey- Multi-platinum selling diva Lady Gaga is fighting to keep her 'Queen of Pop' crown with a hotly-anticipated third album, but early reception in the US and Britain has been...
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