LOS ANGELES- US pop icon Madonna was raped at knifepoint when she was a young struggling artist in New York, she revealed in an article published Friday. The 55-year-old also recalled being held up...

LOS ANGELES- American actress Julianne Moore received the 2,507th star on Hollywood Boulevard's "Walk of Fame" Thursday, during a ceremony surrounded by colleagues from her career in film. Wearing a...

PARIS- UNESCO has voted its director general Irina Bokova to a second term in office, a spokeswoman for the UN agency told AFP on Friday. The Bulgarian was re-elected despite a tough challenge from...

LOS ANGELES- Former Disney teen idol turned bad-girl pop star Miley Cyrus hit back Thursday at Sinead O'Connor, rebuffing advice by the Irish singer that she stop prostituting herself for music...

CAIRO- An exhibition of ancient artefacts that narrowly survived the turmoil of the 2011 Egyptian uprising opened in Cairo on Monday under the title "Destruction and Restoration". The exhibit...

ALEXANDRIA- George Washington, the first president of the United States, was finally honored with a library Friday, more than 200 years after the end of his tenure. The Fred W. Smith National Library...

THE HAGUE, Charles Onians- The Gazan winner of the Arab Idol talent competition Mohammed Assaf brought his thumping Palestinian beats out of the Middle East for the first on Sunday in his...

SAN SEBASTIAN, Anna Cuenca- Australian actor Hugh Jackman, the star of "Wolverine" and "X-Men", received a lifetime achievement award on Friday at the San Sebastian film festival in northern Spain....

TEHRAN- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday brought home a 2,700-year-old Persian artifact the US administration gave him as "a special gift" to Iranians, media reports said. "The Americans...