SANTIAGO- A longtime associate of Pablo Neruda has caused a media stir claiming that the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet was assassinated by the regime of former dictator Augusto Pinochet.
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CANNES, Robert MacPherson- The Cannes film festival got off to a glittering start on Wednesday, paying hommage to the creator of "Last Tango in Paris" before sitting back to enjoy "Midnight in...
LOS ANGELES- Sarah Ferguson, the former wife of Britain's Prince Andrew, says it was "difficult" that she wasn't invited to last month's royal wedding, but blamed herself for the snub.
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DHAKA, Cat Barton- Recently found photographs of Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian to win the Nobel prize for literature, show the poet in a new, more intimate light in an exhibition marking the...
BERLIN- Singers from across Europe on Sunday performed British composer Benjamin Britten's choral symphony War Requiem at a ceremony commemorating the end of World War II in Berlin on Sunday.
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PARIS- Legendary German-born playboy Gunter Sachs, a former husband of French bombshell Brigitte Bardot, killed himself at his Swiss chalet due to sickness, his family said Sunday. He was 78.
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ABU DHABI – Kalima, the translation project of the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH), published the Arabic translation of the Italian political thinker and writer Maurizio Viroli’s...
PARIS- Films by two convicted Iranian directors, Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof, made in "semi-clandestine conditions", will be shown at this month's Cannes film festival, organisers said...
NEW DELHI, Pratap Chakravarty- India kicked off celebrations on Saturday to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of iconic poet and playwright Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian to win the Nobel...
WASHINGTON- At 70 years old, he climbs ladders, rolls on the ground and his voice shakes the room: Placido Domingo is Oreste in "Iphigenie en Tauride," a performance-style farewell to the Washington...
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