JOHANNESBURG, Sibongile Khumalo- South Africa's anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela was discharged from hospital on Wednesday after almost three weeks being treated for a lung infection but will...
LOS ANGELES- Jack Klugman, the television star who portrayed a slovenly sportswriter on "The Odd Couple" and a tough medical examiner on "Quincy, ME," has died. He was 90. Klugman's attorney Larry...
"Not a single mausoleum will remain in Timbuktu, Allah doesn't like it," Abou Dardar, a leader of the armed Ansar Dine group which is behind the latest wave of destruction, bluntly told AFP on...
STOCKHOLM- A Swedish university said Sunday it wants to return three human skulls that researchers collected in French Polynesia in the 19th century. The skulls arrived in Sweden in 1884 aboard the...
In its opening weekend, the film scored $84.6 million in the US and Canada, and $138.2 million internationally, for an estimated global total of $223 million, according to New Line Cinema, which said...
TIKAL, Guatemala, Edgar Calderon- A global day of lighthearted doom-themed celebration and superstitious scare-mongering culminated Friday at the temples of the Mayan people, whose calendar sparked...
LONDON- Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan were reunited on stage for the first time in 23 years on Friday as the Australian pair duetted on their 1988 smash hit "Especially For You" at a show in...
SIRINCE, Turkey, Ceren Kumova- As the village of Sirince waited for what some say is an apocalypse from which the tiny Turkish hamlet will be spared, its streets were teeming not with doomsayers but...
DOHA- Qatar-based company Alnoor Holding has said it will raise the budget for a planned movie series on the life of Prophet Mohammed to $1 billion dollars from the $1.5 million announced three years...
LONDON - A new inquest into the death of troubled British singer Amy Winehouse will be held in January after it emerged that the original coroner was not qualified for the job, an official said...