NEW YORK, Sebastian Smith- The Black Keys, Foo Fighters and Neil Young rocked New York's Central Park on Saturday with a free concert highlighting efforts to combat extreme poverty around the world....
LONDON, Maureen Cofflard- Harry Potter author JK Rowling spent the day "trying to avoid newspapers" as her first novel for grown-ups hit the bookshops, but she is confident the book is "the best I...
MOSCOW- Legendary Russian theatre director Yury Lyubimov, who turns 95 Sunday, said Friday that his dream of producing a comic opera based on Moliere may finally come true after a go-ahead from...
ROME- Italy on Wednesday nominated as its submission for Oscar for best foreign movie the Taviani brothers' docu-drama "Caesar Must Die" -- an adaptation of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" staged in a...
REYHANLI, Turkey, Michel Moutot- Syria's extraordinary archaeological heritage has fallen prey to the fighting ravaging the country for more than 18 months, with destruction, theft and systematic...
AMSTERDAM, Charles Onians- An enormous white bathtub made out of bullet-proof material is to catapult Amsterdam's world-famous Stedelijk modern art museum back into the 21st century after an absence...
SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain- US film star Ben Affleck unveiled his new film as a director at the San Sebastian Film Festival Saturday: a real-life tale of spies posing as filmmakers in revolutionary Iran....
LOS ANGELES, Romain Raynaldy- Cult retro series "Mad Men" and comedy hit "Modern Family" are Emmys favorites again this weekend -- but a bunch of newcomers could yet produce surprises at US...
MADRID, Anna Cuenca- A galaxy of stars including John Travolta and Ewan McGregor will flock to the San Sebastian film festival which gets under way Friday in the northern Spanish coastal city. "This...
PARIS, Abhik Kumar Chanda- Paris's famed Louvre museum this week opens a new wing of Islamic art in a bid to improve knowledge of a religion often viewed with suspicion in the West. Costing nearly...
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