VIENNA- The prestigious Vienna State Opera will this week mark -- along with the rest of the world of classical music -- the 100th anniversary of the death of composer and conductor Gustav Mahler...

BAKU- Hundreds of people welcomed home Azerbaijan's Eurovision Song Contest winners in Baku on Monday after an unexpected victory which caused jubilation in the small ex-Soviet republic. Convoys...

BUENOS AIRES, Indalecio Alvarez- Marta Minujin, Argentina's most famous artist, is known for artwork that is both out-sized and outlandish. Her latest creation might also be described as...

CANNES, Robert MacPherson- A French director's clever silent movie about a fallen Hollywood silent-movie star came out of nowhere on Sunday to become a strong contender for the Palme d'Or at Cannes....

LONDON- Actress Sienna Miller was set Friday to accept £100,000 (115,000 euros, $162,000) in damages from Britain's News of the World after the newspaper admitted hacking into her mobile phone...

CANNES, Charles Onians- Johnny Depp swung back into his iconic Captain Jack Sparrow role Saturday at the Cannes premiere of "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides," the fourth episode in the...

BERLIN- Germany Friday agreed to return a 3,500-year-old statue of a sphinx to Turkey where it was dug up, ending a war of words between Berlin and Ankara. "Following talks between German and...

CANNES, Charles Onians - Riding the wave of the Arab Spring, Egyptian film star Khaled Abol Naga and his international backers have launched a revolutionary bid to bring quality Arab cinema to the...

LONDON, Alice Ritchie- As Catherine enjoys her honeymoon with new husband Prince William after a flawless royal wedding, back home her little sister Pippa has sparked a media storm all of her own....