CANNES, FRANCE, Françoise Michel- Hollywood has always adapted the classics but film and television's voracious appetite for new material now has film-makers raiding the bookshelves like never...

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, Mohamad Ali Harissi- They are mothers, daughters, wives -- and suicide bombers: an Arab television drama timed for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan tells the untold...

COTTBUS, GERMANY, Yannick Pasquet- With its battered facades, pulverised houses and skeletons of buildings, one of the world's oldest cities, Aleppo, has been utterly devastated by the war in Syria....

DOUMA, SYRIA, Hasan Mohammed- To escape the nightmare of life in their besieged hometown near Syria's capital, 13 young girls sought refuge in a fairytale performance of "Snow White and the Seven...

CANNES, FRANCE- A galaxy of stars including Leonardo DiCaprio, Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman and Will Smith turned out for an AIDS benefit that is the social highlight of the Cannes film festival....

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES, Laura Bonilla- The emaciated teenager from a Rio favela, dressed in her mother's clothes held tight by pins, showed up in 1953 at a radio studio. She wanted to sing in return...

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | AFP | What women wear can often be the focus of critique and controversy -- all the more so when the woman is an ex-model, married to the US president and disembarking in...

TOKYO, JAPAN, Harumi Ozawa / Miwa Suzuki- Emperor Akihito's granddaughter's upcoming engagement to her college sweetheart, a commoner, will cost the princess her royal status in a move that...

PARIS, FRANCE, Antoine Froidefond- An original Caravaggio or a master fake? This is the question that continues to befuddle art historians and experts about a painting discovered in a French attic...