LOS ANGELES- The final season of award-winning US television show "Mad Men" will be split in two, airing in 2014 and 2015, the cable channel that broadcasts it said Tuesday. In an announcement days...

NEW YORK CITY, Fran Blandy - Fresh from a controversial election win, Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe is now the focus of an off-Broadway play in New York that delves into the mind of one of the world's...

LONDON- Oscar-winning British actor Colin Firth will provide the voice for Paddington Bear in a new movie about the marmalade-loving children's character, he revealed on Friday. Firth, who won an...

KATHA, William Davies- Cobwebs cover its furniture and its rooms are long deserted, but a crumbling house in northern Myanmar is at the centre of a conservation battle by locals who say it was once...

BERLIN- German author Erich Loest, who was a prominent critic of the ex-communist East German regime, has died at age 87 after throwing himself out of a window, police said. The writer apparently...

LONDON- Oscar-winning British actor Colin Firth will provide the voice for Paddington Bear in a new movie about the marmalade-loving children's character, he revealed on Friday. Firth, who won an...

LOS ANGELES- Rapper-turned-reggae star Snoop Dogg is donating money for the funeral of a 6-year-old girl killed in a gang-style shooting, joining a fellow rap artist in supporting her family, he said...

LONDON- Rock icon David Bowie's re-emergence into the limelight continued on Wednesday when he was named on the shortlist for the Mercury Prize, one of Britain's most prestigious music awards. The...

LONDON- Britain's Prince Andrew was challenged by jittery royal protection officers in the gardens of Buckingham Palace last week as they stepped up security following a break-in, police admitted on...