LONDON- British pop singer Lily Allen got married Saturday in a quiet ceremony in the English countryside, which became a double celebration when her new husband Sam Cooper revealed that she was...
LONDON- British actor Colin Firth was rewarded in Queen Elizabeth II's birthday honours list on Saturday after he played her father in Oscar-winning film "The King's Speech".
England cricket...
MOSCOW, Maria Panina- On a small stage in a rented basement in Moscow, people with Down’s Syndrome have become the lead actors in their own dramas.
In a country where 85 percent of children born...
WASHINGTON- Forget the "Made in China" snow globes packed with a miniature White House or cheap T-shirts, mugs and dog tags: a new museum gift shop is intent on selling only items that are made in...
MUMBAI, Phil Hazlewood- India's most famous and controversial modern artist, M.F. Husain, who fled the country in 2006 after death threats from Hindu extremists, died in London on Thursday at the age...
PARIS- Civil war, concentration camp, exile, communism, ministerial office, literary honours: Jorge Semprun, the Spanish-born writer and politician who died Tuesday aged 87, experienced all of them....
GETARIA, Rafa Rivas- Spanish designer Cristobal Balenciaga, the son of a Basque fisherman who revolutionised women's fashions in the 1950s and 60s and adorned such icons as Greta Garbo and Marlene...
LOS ANGELES- The iconic black and red jacket worn by Michael Jackson in his "Thriller" video is to go under the hammer at a two-day Music Icons Exhibition in Beverly Hills.
The jacket is among 600...
PARIS, Myriam Chaplain-Riou- Just in time for Global Smurfs Day and a Smurfs movie in 3-D comes a little blue book from a French academic that has some fans of the sock-topped comic book characters...
LOS ANGELES- "X-Men: First Class," a prequel that drops the franchise's mutants into the Cuban Missile Crisis, deputed atop the North American box office with $56 million, estimates showed Sunday....
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