TEL AVIV- Pop icon Madonna kicked off her 2012 world tour on Thursday with a call for peace from a Tel Aviv stage. "I chose to start my world tour in Israel for a very specific and important reason,"...
TOULOUSE, France- A court has found a French magazine violated singer Celine Dion's privacy and awarded her 8,000 euros ($9,940) in damages after it wrote in 2010 that she was in hospital with...
WASHINGTON, Fabienne Faur- US First Lady Michelle Obama made her literary debut Tuesday with a book about the White House garden in her latest effort to promote healthy eating in a nation struggling...
Now, in the middle of the working class La Boca district, not far from the famed "La Bombonera" stadium where the Boca Juniors club plays, the so-called "Art Factory" (Usina del Arte) is gleaming and...
The 19th century opera -- based on the play by national poet Alexander Pushkin -- chronicles the rise and fall of Tsar Boris Godunov, who ascended to the throne at the turn of the 16th century after...
CANNES, France, Emma Charlton- Jean-Louis Trintignant, star of the film "Love" that won Cannes gold on Sunday, is a French screen legend who returned to cinema after a 15-year break for a searing...
BAKU- Favourite Loreen of Sweden on Saturday won a crushing victory in the Eurovision Song Contest in the Azerbaijani capital Baku, her country's fifth victory in the annual music extravaganza....
ATHENS, Roland Lloyd Parry- Judges narrowly acquitted Socrates, the philosopher whose teachings earned him a death sentence in ancient Athens, in a retrial Friday billed as a lesson for modern times...
Thimpu, Penny MacRae- South Asia's love of literature festivals has spread to the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, which features in many an exotic travelogue but is pretty much a blank space on the...
JERUSALEM- Archaeologists have uncovered a tiny clay seal inscribed with the word "Bethlehem" in what is believed to be the earliest evidence for the existence of the ancient biblical city. "The...
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