LOS ANGELES- Singer-actress Jennifer Lopez was honored Thursday with the 2,500th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, joined by celebrities including Jane Fonda and watched by screaming fans. "I...

PHNOM PENH, Suy Se- UNESCO on Thursday added six ancient sites in Syria including a fortress of Saladin and a Crusader castle to the endangered World Heritage list, warning that more than two years...

LONDON, Robin Millard- The sex of Prince William and his wife Catherine's baby will remain a mystery until its expected arrival in mid-July, with the mother likely to opt for a natural delivery,...

WASHINGTON, Robert MacPherson- Nicholas Biniaz-Harris is a young American classical pianist who is more at home performing Bach, Beethoven and Rachmaninoff than the obscure works of Nazi...

SHANGHAI- Shanghai on Saturday opened its annual film festival packed with star power in acknowledgement of China's role as the second largest box office in the world. The government-backed Shanghai...

BESANCON- Senegalese sculptor Ousmane Sow, considered one of Africa's foremost artists, inaugurated a retrospective in Besancon on Saturday, his last exhibit in his adoptive France before moving all...

BEN AROUS, Kaouther Larbi- A Tunisian rapper was handed a two-year jail sentence on Thursday for insulting the police in a song, with the court ruling sparking clashes between his supporters and...

ROME- Henry Purcell's opera "Dido and Aenaes" opens the season at Rome's Baths of Caracalla ruins on Thursday, with a new production the director described as uniting the classical world with the...

LONDON- A man was charged on Friday after a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II commissioned to mark her 60 years on the throne was defaced at London's Westminster Abbey. "In an incident at lunchtime...