MUSCAT, Mohamed Hasni- Oman's music-loving Sultan Qaboos is building an Italian-style opera house, a temple dedicated to classical music that will be unique in the Arabian Peninsula. "It is a...

LONDON, Guy Jackson- The world's longest-running TV soap opera, "Coronation Street", marks 50 years on air this week with a dramatic scene featuring a tram crashing on to houses and characters...

BEIJING- Chinese publishers have pulled a collection of Brothers Grimm fairy tales from children's shelves in book stores after mistakenly translating a Japanese pornographic reinterpretation of the...

MILAN- Riot police fired tear gas at protesters outside La Scala in Milan on Tuesday, as clashes against the Italian government's austerity budget cuts marred the season opening of the historic opera...

STOCKHOLM- Nobel Literature Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa praised Monday the award of the Peace Prize to jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, saying the laureate was fighting a fierce...

WASHINGTON- US President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, late Sunday hosted Oprah Winfrey, Paul McCartney and other Kennedy Center honorees in a star-studded White House reception. Country...

LOS ANGELES- Disney's animated hit "Tangled" took the top spot in a low-earning weekend at the North American box office, outpacing a gentleman by the name of Harry Potter, preliminary data showed...

SOFIA- Bulgarian national television called on viewers Sunday to say which Christmas and New Year songs they don't want to hear this year, to spare them another season of their least favourite...

TALLINN- Roman Polanski's political thriller "The Ghost Writer" swept the board Saturday at the European Film Awards, the continent's version of the Oscars. The movie won six of the seven...