TORONTO, Michel Comte- A veil of secrecy was draped ironically around a new movie charting the rise of WikiLeaks on Thursday as the whistle-blower drama prepared to open the Toronto International...

WARSAW- A prisoner's cap stolen from the museum at a former Nazi German death camp in Poland and put up for sale on eBay has been returned, a spokeswoman for the institution said Wednesday. The blue...

OTTAWA, Michel Comte- North America's largest film festival opens Thursday with a drama about real life WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, promising the "full story" behind the whistleblower website....

BUCHAREST, Isabelle Wesselingh- Daniel Barenboim, the world-famous conductor, opened the Enescu international music festival in Bucharest on Sunday, one of the most prestigious events in the arts...

DUBLIN- Irish writer and poet Seamus Heaney was described as the voice of Northern Ireland's pain and suffering during his funeral mass in Dublin Monday, attended by the literary elite and rock...

BUCHAREST- Top conductor Daniel Barenboim on Saturday said that the situation in Syria "cannot really continue like this". "I don't think I want to say too much about Syria now because the situation...

ROME- Rome's MAXXI art museum said Thursday it wanted a bigger role on the world stage with the appointment of its new Chinese-born artistic director Hou Hanru. The contemporary art and architecture...

SEOUL, Jung Ha-Won- Along with obvious classes like bomb-making, Kim Dong-Sik's intensive spy training in North Korea included memorising hundreds of South Korean pop songs and dance moves. Such...

PARIS, Karim Talbi- The UN's cultural organisation on Thursday urged Syria's regime and rebels to spare multi-millennial heritage that is being ravaged by shelling, theft and illegal digs. "I urge...