VIENNA- One of the most renowned tenors of the 1970s and 1980s, Austria's Spas Wenkoff, has died at his home in Bad Ischl, aged 84, the Vienna State Opera announced on Tuesday. It said the...

MOSCOW- The artistic director of Moscow's Bolshoi ballet Sergei Filin, battling for his eyesight after an acid attack in January, has left his clinic in Germany to visit London for the company's...

BEIJING, Carol Huang- As a teenager radicalised by China's Cultural Revolution, Zhang Hongbing denounced his mother to the authorities. Two months later a firing squad shot her dead. Now after more...

ATHENS, Hélène Colliopoulou- Aristotle, Plato and Socrates have resurfaced in Athens in the midst of Greece's harrowing economic crisis, brought to life by a global philosophy congress in the very...

BUCHAREST- The military base where brutal Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena were executed in 1989 has been restored and will open to the public in September, local media reported...

VIENNA- Latvian mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca has cancelled performances at New York's Metropolitan Opera and Covent Garden in London because she is expecting her second child, she said on her website....

CARCALIU, Isabelle Wesselingh- Residents of the sleepy Romanian village of Carcaliu, on the banks of the Danube, are ill accustomed to international notoriety. But in recent weeks they have been...

BUCHAREST- Experts investigating the theft of seven masterpieces said Thursday they had found the burned remains of at least three oil paintings at the Romanian home of the chief suspect's mother....

JOHANNESBURG- Nelson Mandela's ex-wife Winnie on Thursday released a book about her detention by the apartheid regime, a time she described as the darkest part of her life. The book "491 Days:...