LONDON- Singer-songwriter Emeli Sande, the voice of the London Olympics, continued her rise to superstardom by winning two of the most prestigious Brit Awards at a ceremony in London on Wednesday....

TOKYO- A previously unknown short story by Japan's first Nobel Prize-winning author Yasunari Kawabata, best-known for the novel "Snow Country", has been uncovered by researchers decades after his...

LONDON- British rocker Tony Sheridan, best known as an early collaborator of The Beatles and mentor during the Fab Four's legendary spell in Hamburg, has died aged 72, his family announced. A...

BERLIN, Deborah Cole- "Child's Pose", a mother-son psychodrama set among post-communist Romania's new ruling class, won the Golden Bear top prize at the 63rd Berlin film festival Saturday. Director...

DHAKA- Bangladesh has banned the Japanese manga cartoon Doraemon from its TV screens over fears that youngsters who are hooked on the Hindi-dubbed version are struggling to learn their native...

SYDNEY- Hollywood superstars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie may be heading to Australia if the government is successful in bringing "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemo" Down Under, it emerged...

PRETORIA- South Africans grappled with disappointment, shock -- and even nausea -- as sports hero Oscar Pistorius appeared in court on Friday for murdering his girlfriend. "I'm just shocked at the...

TOKYO- Lights began to shine on Tokyo's celebrated home of traditional kabuki theatre on Thursday, as the renovated venue prepares to raise the curtains on a new era. The new Kabuki-za theatre, part...

BERLIN, Deborah Cole- The late River Phoenix made a haunting reappearance on the big screen Thursday as the last movie to feature the acclaimed star, who died of a drug overdose at 23, was presented...