WARSAW- Tens of thousands of people, many in colourful exotic costumes, attended Warsaw's first Epiphany procession in half a century Thursday, led by the legendary Three Kings bearing precious gifts...

LONDON- Dick King-Smith, the British author of the popular children's books which spawned the hit film "Babe", has died at the age of 88, his publishers said on Wednesday. The prolific writer,...

STOCKHOLM- Swedish actor Per Oscarsson, who took top honours at the 1966 Cannes film festival, and his wife, died in a fire that burned their home to the ground last week, police said Wednesday....

KABUL, Emmanuel Duparcq- Two Afghan policemen stand paralysed by fear in front of a plastic cup. But this is not some farcical scene from the battle against the Taliban -- it is a sketch from a new...

LOS ANGELES, Michael Thurston- Michael Jackson's doctor was guilty of a string of failings leading to the pop icon's sudden death last year, prosecutors said Tuesday as the physician appeared in...

LOS ANGELES- "Little Fockers," the third installment of Robert De Niro-Ben Stiller comedies about nightmare in-laws, topped the North American box office for a second week in a row, figures showed...

LOS ANGELES- Lawyers for Michael Jackson's personal doctor will argue that he killed himself, prosecutors claimed ahead of a pre-trial hearing Tuesday into the pop icon's death. Dr. Conrad Murray...

HAIFA- The Palestine National Orchestra has made its debut in the occupied West Bank, annexed east Jerusalem and the Israeli city of Haifa under the banner of "Today an orchestra, tomorrow a state."...

ROME- Anna Anni, who was costume designer for opera stars like Maria Callas, Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo, has died, Italian press reports said Sunday. She was 84. Anni, who also worked...