MADRID- Spain's government Friday awarded opera tenor Placido Domingo its Order of Arts and Letters for "his extraordinary artistic career." Domingo, who is to perform in Madrid on his 70th...

PARIS, Myriam Chaplain-Riou- The longtime partner of Stieg Larsson says she could finish a fourth volume in the phenomenal Millennium series left incomplete by the Swedish novelist's sudden death, if...

ANKARA- Turkey's television watchdog on Wednesday gave an official warning to a private channel after thousands complained that it was portraying the country's Ottoman-era sultans as drinkers and...

LOS ANGELES, Michael Thurston- A judge on Tuesday ordered Michael Jackson's personal doctor to stand trial on involuntary manslaughter charges for allegedly killing the singer with an overdose of...

SAN FRANCISCO- The first gay museum in the United States opens officially on Thursday in San Francisco's famed Castro District. The Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender (GLBT) Museum had a "soft...

BRASILIA- Brazilian author Paulo Coelho, who wrote the worldwide bestseller "The Alchemist," accused Iran Monday of banning his books. "My books have been published in Iran since 1998, in...

LOS ANGELES- Oscar-winning brothers Joel and Ethan Coen's remake of John Wayne western "True Grit" gunned its way to the top of the North American box office, full weekend data showed Monday. The...

COPENHAGEN- Danish Crown Princess Mary gave birth to twins on Saturday, a healthy boy and girl who are her third and fourth children with Crown Prince Frederik, the Danish royal court announced....

WASHINGTON- New versions of Mark Twain classics "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn," cleansed of racial slurs common when they were written, have led many in the US to cry foul. In the new...