LOS ANGELES- US actress Natalie Portman is engaged to marry French ballet dancer and choreographer Benjamin Millepied and is pregnant with his child, her publicist told People magazine Monday....

LOS ANGELES- US R&B singer Teena Marie, whose hits in the 1980s included "I Need Your Lovin'" and "Lovergirl", has died at the age of 54, police said. Marie was found dead at her home in the Los...

LONDON- The park where Welsh poet Dylan Thomas spent much of his childhood is being given a 820,000-pound (965,000 euros, 1.27 million dollars) revamp, the local government said on Sunday....

LIMA- Riot police on horseback clashed Friday with thousands of squatters wielding clubs and rocks, in a pitched battle over an archaeological site near Lima that was occupied a day earlier to demand...

BETHLEHEM, Sara Hussein- Pilgrims flocked to a sun-kissed Bethlehem Friday to celebrate Christmas in the birthplace of Jesus Christ as other revellers battled snowstorms to make it home to their...

HONOLULU- US President Barack Obama is using his Christmas holiday in Hawaii to read up on former president Ronald Reagan, an icon for the resurgent Republicans he will face next year. The...

REYKJAVIK, Agnes Valdimarsdottir- They don't wear red, and they're not jolly: the 13 Santas who usher in Christmas in Iceland are "descendants" of trolls and ogres who revel in terrifying young...

ROME- An exhibition of paintings by Marc Chagall (1887-1985) entitled "The World Upside-Down" opened to the public on Wednesday next to an ancient Roman altar in the centre of the Italian capital....

LOS ANGELES- The husband of ailing Hollywood socialite and actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was hospitalized Tuesday after accidentally gluing one of his own eyes shut. Gabor, 93, has been in and out of...