BAGRAM AIR BASE- In his drive to end a ban on gays in the military, US President Barack Obama got an unexpected boost during his latest visit to Afghanistan, as a female singer performed "I Kissed a...

NEW YORK - An Edgar Degas painting stolen nearly 30 years ago from a museum in France will be returned by the US government, which recovered the rare artwork shortly before it was to be sold at...

LOS ANGELES- Veteran Hollywood star Michael Douglas says he feels stronger every day after cancer treatment he described as "hell," in comments published Thursday. But the 66-year-old actor, who...

GOYA, Indalecio Alvarez- The latest controversy to roil Argentina has nothing to do with the soaring inflation rate or next year's presidential election. Tongues here are clucking instead over the...

LONDON- A British army officer is hoping to top the festive singles charts with a song about spending Christmas away from home in Afghanistan. Captain Xander Rawlins, who served in the country...

LOS ANGELES- Hollywood veteran Tom Hanks is to star in a new film by Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow which has sparked fury in Latin America, the movie's producer was quoted as saying...

MONTREAL, Michel Viatteau- The white-haired doctor in the 1980 hit "Airplane!" has taken his last flight, but Canadian-born actor Leslie Nielsen, who died on Sunday at the age of 84, will continue to...

PARIS- One was a grumpy Atlanticist who clashed with General De Gaulle, the other a slick French-speaker who saw a Britain "at the heart of Europe", but the French still prefer Winston Churchill over...

PARIS, Anne Chaon- Take four US scriptwriters, each with a story in mind, whisk them from Los Angeles to a Cistercian abbey near Paris, allow to simmer, and wait for their characters to step out on...