VIENNA- An opera about Nazi atrocities on children suffering with physical and mental handicaps at a hospital in Vienna after Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany had its world premiere Friday....

ANTAKYA, Turkey, Marc Burleigh- If his words were bullets, Ahmad El-Khalaf would have already brought down President Bashar al-Assad to end the bloodshed tearing apart his family's homeland of Syria....

JAIPUR, India- Two authors whose books have been banned in their native countries of China and Russia have made it onto the shortlist for Britain's Man Booker International Prize, it was announced on...

PARIS, Marie-Pierre Ferey- Hollywood star Natalie Portman is swapping New York for Paris along with her French husband Benjamin Millepied after he secured the post of dance director at the French...

PARK CITY, Utah, Romain Raynaldy- The life and work of British war photographer Tim Hetherington, who died covering fighting in Libya in 2011, is celebrated in a film presented at the Sundance Film...

WASHINGTON, Robert MacPherson- Beyonce did not sing the US national anthem live at this week's public swearing-in ceremony of President Barack Obama for his second term, CNN quoted an inaugural...

PARIS- An exhibition of the largest collection of modern Aboriginal paintings to have gone on display outside of Australia has been a major hit with art lovers in Paris. The exhibition, "The Sources...

ZURICH, Nina Larson- Stefan Bachmann is only 19, but his darkly mysterious debut novel set in a parallel world of faeries, goblins and child snatchers has already earned him comparisons to J.K....

WASHINGTON- Pop princess Katy Perry was a starlet in stripes Monday, bundling up in the chill as she joined a bevy of celebrities at Barack Obama's second presidential inauguration. Perry, sporting a...