NEW YORK- A Cuban director failed to show up at a press conference Tuesday after two of her actors mysteriously disappeared en route to a New York film festival. The two young actors were scheduled...

CAIRO- A Cairo court on Tuesday upheld the sentencing of Adel Imam, the Arab world's most famous actor, to three months in jail for "defaming Islam" in several roles on stage and screen, a judicial...

BUCHAREST- Romania's new National Library opened its doors Monday in a monumental building in the capital city, more than 20 years after its foundations were laid under the communist regime. "This is...

CHICAGO- Academy Award winner Jennifer Hudson, choking back tears, testified Monday how no one in her family wanted her sister to marry the man who is accused of murdering her mother, brother and...

SEOUL- Scores of conservative South Korean Christians will pray together on Sunday against Lady Gaga's Seoul concert, organisers said, accusing the US pop star of advocating homosexuality and...

LONDON- Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb has woken from a coma and responded to members of his family, his spokesman said Saturday. Gibb, 62, contracted pneumonia and fell into the coma last week. He is...

SYDNEY- Officials in southern Australia's Adelaide voiced their disappointment Saturday at revelations that US singer Cher had apparently put her key to the city up for sale on Internet auction house...

WARSAW- A posthumous collection of poems by Poland's Nobel literature laureate Wislawa Szymborska went on sale on Friday, selling out within hours at several bookstores in the capital. The collection...

BELFAST- Robin Gibb's Bee Gee brother Barry has been singing to the cancer-battling star as the family tries to help him come out of a coma, his wife said. Gibb, 62, has contracted pneumonia and is...