BERLIN- Yoko Ono on Friday accepted a German human rights prize for peace activism with her late husband, Beatle John Lennon, as well as her more recent work championing equality for women and gays....

NEW DELHI, Ben Sheppard- Legendary Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar, who influenced musicians ranging from The Beatles to violinist Yehudi Menuhin, has died aged 92 in the United States after...

VIENNA- The Salzburg Festival, one of the world's top classical music events, was in disarray Monday after the conductor of one of the centrepiece performances for the next three years withdrew in a...

MONTERREY, Mexico- Fans and celebrities on Monday mourned the death of Mexican-American diva Jenni Rivera, a star on both sides of the border, as investigators scoured the site of her plane wreck for...

LOS ANGELES, Romain Raynaldy- Scottish hardman actor Gerard Butler, known for thrillers and action movies, has softened up for his latest role, in a romantic comedy set in smalltown America. In...

BEIJING- Nobel literature laureate Mo Yan was assailed Saturday in the Chinese dissident community as a "prostitute" following his Nobel lecture, but the speech was acclaimed in the communist state's...

MILAN- La Scala opera house in Milan on Friday celebrated the start of its 2012/2013 season with Richard Wagner's "Lohengrin" -- a disputed choice ahead of the bicentenaries of the famous German...

BRASILIA, Yana Marull- Brazil on Thursday mourned its star architect Oscar Niemeyer, as tributes poured in from around the world eulogizing him as a towering figure of modern architecture. "I join...

NEW YORK, Sebastian Smith- Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" opens in the US this month and critics say the movie, much like the epic journey it depicts, is adventurous -- but an...