The exhibition, "I Love Aldi", runs at the Wilhelm-Hack museum in the western industrial city of Ludwigshafen, situated on the banks of the Rhine, until March 4. "The 'Aldi-isation', or the search...

JAIPUR, S.P. Singh- A video address by British author Salman Rushdie to a book festival in India was scrapped on Tuesday after police warned that Islamic hardliners in the crowd posed a security...

THE HAGUE- Italian master novelist Umberto Eco has been awarded the second Nijmegen Medal of Peace for his role in the debate on the past and future of Europe, the Dutch city announced Monday. "An...

JAIPUR, Ben Sheppard- Television chatshow queen Oprah Winfrey received a rock star's welcome when she spoke on Sunday to a heaving audience of thousands of fans at the Jaipur Literature Festival in...

"He's not a household name over here, but in China everyone knows his name," said Maxwell Hearn, curator of the show. "He's the Van Gogh or Monet of modern China." Featuring 90 works that had...

LOS ANGELES- Paul McCartney will join Coldplay and Rihanna among the artists playing at next month's Grammys, organizers for the music industry's annual awards show said Thursday. The former...

MADRID- Spain's government said Wednesday it has invited Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa to head the Cervantes Institute, which is charged with promoting Spanish language and culture worldwide....

HENLEY-ON-KLIP, Joshua Howat Berger- US talk show queen Oprah Winfrey cried Saturday as the first graduates of her South African girls' academy thanked her for her effort to turn a handful of...

LOS ANGELES, Michael Thurston- Britons including Kate Winslet were among the early winners at the Golden Globes Sunday, as British comic Ricky Gervais again took mocking aim at Hollywood at its main...