TUNIS, Dario Thuburn and Najeh Mouelhi- Tears mixed with joy as "El General" -- the rapper banned by Tunisia's regime who helped inspire a revolt that has shaken the Arab world -- took to the stage...

MOSCOW, Olga Nedbayeva - Food shortages, press freedoms, shots fired at demonstrators: a photo exhibit in Moscow shows the many facets of perestroika that, 20 years on, leaves its author Mikhail...

WASHINGTON- In a fitting US tribute to the upcoming British royal wedding, Lifetime, which makes television targetted to women, is fast-tracking a film version of the romantic tale of Prince William...

SALZBURG- Salzburg's famed 300-year-old chime, the "Glockenspiel," rang out again on Friday after two years of silence during which it underwent a thorough restoration. "It was necessary: the...

TOKYO- Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa has cancelled all performances until August to focus on recovering from back surgery, his office said Friday. The 75-year-old former principal conductor of...

LONDON, Alice Ritchie- J.D. Salinger, the famously reclusive author of "The Catcher in the Rye", was not such a hermit after all, according to newly published letters Thursday that show he travelled...

HAVANA- The International Low Budget Film Festival that Cuba has hosted for the past eight years will have a very low budget this year, organizers said Tuesday. "Considering the economic...

MOSCOW- Ukrainian playwright Anna Mashutina was killed in the Moscow airport bombing as she arrived in the Russian capital on her way to collect a prize, officials and colleagues said Tuesday....

PARIS- Can anyone beat Frederic Chopin as an emblem of the Romantic artist? In the great Polish composer, towering genius combined with a wasted frame and a pallid face behind which lurked...