The fragile Western-backed government, which is waging an uphill battle against Islamist Shebab militants in the Horn of Africa nation, claimed it was a sign that things were slowly improving in the...

"The Art of Video Games" spans the 40 years since video games moved from amusement arcades into homes around the world, evolving in leaps and bounds with ever-more-sophisticated graphics,...

WASHINGTON, Shaun Tandon- Actor George Clooney and several members of the US Congress were handcuffed and arrested Friday outside Sudan's embassy as they demanded an end to an offensive they fear...

CAIRO- Egyptian artists have condemned a decision by Cairo University to ban the screening of an Oscar-winning Iranian film under pressure from Islamist students who said it propagates Shiite...

BRUSSELS- Google linked up Tuesday with Belgian museum, the Mundaneum, which was set up as a 19th-century paper equivalent of the US Internet search giant."We want to honour and promote the important...

NEW DELHI, Ben Sheppard- British author Salman Rushdie is to speak at a conference in India on Friday, organisers have announced, two months after death threats forced him to pull out of a literature...

AKB48, an all-girls J-Pop band named after Tokyo's geek culture neighbourhood Akihabara who dance in school uniforms, will perform two free concerts on March 27 and also visit a local school, the...

PARIS, Pascale Mollard-Chenebenoit- An exhibition by French painter Edgar Degas opens this week at the Paris Orsay museum, with some 170 paintings, prints and sculptures focusing exclusively on...

LOS ANGELES- Whitney Houston's daughter said Sunday she plans to follow her mother into show business, while the drug-troubled star's sister-in-law admitted her untimely death could have been...