LONDON- Former Beatle Paul McCartney is engaged to New York socialite Nancy Shevell, his girlfriend of nearly four years, his publicist said Friday. It will be the 68-year-old pop legend's third...

LOS ANGELES- Singer Mariah Carey, who gave birth last week to boy and girl twins, announced on her website Wednesday that she has chosen the names Moroccan and Monroe for the infants. In a...

BAGHDAD- Iraq's first book fair in 20 years concluded on Thursday with organisers and attendees hailing it as a return for the violence-wracked country to the global literary scene. The two-week...

BAGHDAD, Anwar Faruqi- As Baghdad writhed with violence in 2006, Emad Ali set out to make a film about the iconic Shabandar Cafe. But he turned the camera on himself after the teahouse was bombed, a...

NEW YORK, Paola Messana- A year after he committed suicide, British fashion designer Alexander McQueen stars in a lavish New York retrospective celebrating his wildly inventive, but always romantic...

Rome – Abdul Rahman Bitar - Ten years ago, I had a chance meeting in a Monte Carlo club with a tall man, extremely thin and elegant wearing a pair of dark glasses at midnight and accompanying the...

WASHINGTON- The US Holocaust museum has teamed up with Internet genealogy site Ancestry.com to provide online information about those who were persecuted by the Nazis, the museum said Monday. The...

JERUSALEM- Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim will on Tuesday lead an orchestra of European musicians in a peace concert in Gaza, in the first-ever performance there by such a prestigious...

BEIRUT, Rana Moussaoui- Contemporary dancers are finding their feet in the Arab world, as the art form renowned for freedom of expression blossoms at a time of regional upheaval. "Over the past...