WASHINGTON, Robert MacPherson- Cancer campaigners cheered Angelina Jolie for going public Tuesday about her double mastectomy, but warned women against rushing out to be tested for the gene mutation...
CANNES, France, Catherine Marciano- Cannes on Tuesday rolled out the red carpet for Steven Spielberg, head of this year's film festival jury, with the legendary moviemaker dining with his fellow...
MADRID, Daniel Bosque Homs- With a pumpkin for a drum, carrots for flutes and turnips for trumpets, musicians from Vienna transformed the fresh goods in a Madrid market into honking, whistling...
VIENNA- Britain's Ben Gernon on Sunday won the fourth edition of the Nestle and Salzburg Festival Young Conductors Award. The prize carries a purse of 15,000 euros ($19,500) and includes an...
MOSCOW, Anna Malpas and Olga Rotenberg- Held a virtual prisoner by the Bolsheviks months before his execution, Russia's last tsar Nicholas II pasted informal snapshots of his family into an album...
MUMBAI, Udita Jhunjhunwala- As the Cannes film festival prepares to join in the celebrations for Indian cinema's 100th birthday, one of the biggest names in modern-day Bollywood says the industry is...
LOS ANGELES- The Getty Museum of Los Angeles announced Thursday it has acquired a self-portrait by Rembrandt and a painting by the Venetian artist Canaletto. "Rembrandt Laughing," a small oil on...
BEIJING- A Chinese court ordered a controversial professor who claims descent from the ancient sage Confucius to apologise and pay a fine after a heated online row over poetry, local media reported...
FRANKFURT- A Nazi-themed production of Richard Wagner's "Tannhauser" opera has been cancelled in Duesseldorf after realistic death scenes distressed audience members, the opera house said Thursday....
TAIPEI- Oscar-winning Taiwanese-American director Ang Lee said Thursday he is excited to be working on his first TV project "Tyrant", but dismissed reports he would stay away from movies to focus on...
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