MOSCOW, Anna Malpas- A Bolshoi ballet dancer charged with ordering an acid attack on the troupe's artistic director was not the ultimate "puppeteer" behind the plot, the theatre said Monday after...

STOCKHOLM- Agnetha Faeltskog, former singer of legendary Swedish pop group Abba, will release her first album in nine years in May, her record company said Monday. "I never thought I would sing...

VIENNA- A former head of Vienna's prestigious Philharmonic Orchestra was a member of Nazi Germany's elite paramilitary SS and collaborated with the secret police, while half of its musicians were...

An exodus that began years earlier when the Nazis took power in Germany accelerated. And in the process, Austria lost many of its biggest names: people like Sigmund Freud and Oskar Kokoschka, and...

WASHINGTON- Willy Wonka's golden ticket and Batman's mask are among some 30 movie costumes and props given Friday to the National Museum of American History in the US capital. US production company...

LONDON- British novelist Hilary Mantel on Thursday defended her much-criticised comments about Prince William's wife Catherine, saying that she "meant nothing but good to her". Prime Minister David...

PARIS, Bénédicte Rey- French-Argentine director Jerome Savary, who dedicated his career to popularising the appeal of French theatre, has died at the age of 70, his family said Tuesday. The founder...

MOSCOW, Anna Malpas- Russian police detained Tuesday three suspects including a star dancer over January's acid attack on the Bolshoi ballet artistic director, the interior ministry announced. Among...

SANTIAGO- Pablo Neruda's remains will be exhumed next month to determine if the Nobel prize winning poet died of cancer as commonly believed or was killed by agents serving Augusto Pinochet, a judge...