TAIPEI- Oscar-winning director Ang Lee said Saturday he will "probably" accept an offer to direct historical epic "Cleopatra" starring Angelina Jolie, after the Hollywood actress wrote to him asking...

BAMAKO- Some of Mali's biggest artists have composed a song for peace in a country where the army, backed by French troops, is battling to drive out Islamist extremists occupying the vast desert...

MOSCOW, Maria Antonova- Russian doctors Friday were battling to save the eyesight of the Bolshoi ballet chief after a masked assailant threw acid on his face, in a gruesome attack the theatre linked...

MOSCOW- Gerard Depardieu, the French actor who received a Russian passport this month, has bought a plot of land outside Moscow and is building a wooden house, a top Russian film official said in an...

LOS ANGELES, Michael Thurston- Ben Affleck's Iran hostage drama "Argo" and musical "Les Miserables" were the big winners Sunday at the Golden Globes, while Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" went home with...

FLORENCE, Italy, Dario Thuburn- The new Gucci Museum in Florence opened its latest show this month -- a selection of US artist Cindy Sherman's early works -- in a setting where mediaeval architecture...

LOS ANGELES, Michael Thurston- Hollywood's finest gathered Sunday for the Golden Globes, with Steven Spielberg's political drama "Lincoln" favored for top prizes at Tinseltown's biggest pre-Oscars...

MANILA, Mynardo Macaraig- A former Iraqi soldier and prisoner who brought one of the world's oldest stringed instruments back into the spotlight is set to end his exile and take his haunting songs...

LOS ANGELES, Michael Thurston- Hollywood hits the red carpet Sunday for the Golden Globes, Tinseltown's biggest pre-Oscars awards show, with Steven Spielberg, Ben Affleck and Quentin Tarantino among...