"We saw in other cases, like in Iraq and Afghanistan, that it is the post-conflict that is the most dangerous because there are a lot of weapons, a lot of armed groups, a lot of instability," he...
PARIS, Nadege Puljak- French President Nicolas Sarkozy's supermodel wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy gave birth to a daughter Wednesday, a source in the first lady's inner circle confirmed to AFP.
"For...
WASHINGTON, Robert MacPherson- The authors of a new life of Vincent Van Gogh knew they'd stir controversy by disputing the widely-held belief that the artist killed himself with a pistol while...
LONDON- British author Julian Barnes on Tuesday won the 2011 Man Booker Prize, one of the highest-profile awards in English-language literature, for his novel "The Sense of an Ending".
Barnes,...
BERLIN- Internationally acclaimed Algerian author Boualem Sansal Sunday received the annual German Book Trade Peace Prize and said that people everywhere were rising up against dictatorship....
MANCHESTER- Betty Driver, a much-loved actress who starred for 42 years in Britain's longest-running television soap opera "Coronation Street", died Saturday at the age of 91.
Driver, who played...
LOS ANGELES- Lady Gaga serenaded Bill Clinton with a personalized version of her hit "Bad Romance" on Saturday at a star-studded tribute to the former US president and his decade-old foundation....
In order to distribute the funds, the prestigious philharmonic orchestra has created the "Vienna Philharmonic and Suntory Music Aid Fund," in co-operation with Japanese beverage giant Suntory.
In...
FRANKFURT, Kate Millar- A literary tradition that was born about 900 years ago with the Sagas, which Icelandic children still read today, has evolved into a thriving modern-day appetite for crime...
Other Arab editors hailed the lifting of printing restrictions in their countries following the "Arab Spring" of pro-democracy protests that shook off years of tyrannical, oppressive rule from Tunis...
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