VIENNA, Simon Morgan- It's been over 40 years since a baroque opera was performed in the venerable Vienna State Opera.
Indeed, in the city of Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven and Strauss, baroque opera...
WASHINGTON- A secret history of US government World War II-era operations has concluded that US intelligence services created a "safe haven" in the United States for German Nazis and their...
SANTIAGO- A Hollywood company owned by movie star Brad Pitt is in talks for film rights to the story of 33 miners rescued after surviving two months trapped deep underground in Chile, local media...
PARIS- Paris's Louvre museum has launched an appeal for one million euros (1.4 million dollars) to buy a 16th century German masterpiece, and created a special website to support it.
The owners of...
MECCA, Ali Khalil- The annual hajj pilgrimage, one of the five pillars of Islam, predates the faith by centuries, tracing its roots to the biblical patriarch Abraham -- revered by Muslims as a...
COPENHAGEN- The autobiography of the Danish cartoonist who sparked Muslim outrage by depicting the Prophet Mohammed with a bomb for a turban was quickly whisked off shelves by book buyers when it...
LOS ANGELES, Romain Raynaldy- Legendary French director Jean-Luc Godard prepared to be honored Saturday with a special Oscar for his lifetime cinematic achievements, even as his critics revived old...
OTTAWA- Canada's top literary award for fiction, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, has gone to Nova Scotia-born writer Johanna Skibsrud for her debut novel "The Sentimentalists," the jury announced late...
LONDON- The young stars of the Harry Potter films admitted Tuesday they face an uncertain future after the series ends but look forward to newfound freedoms -- including the opportunity to get a...
OSLO - A plan to build the world's northmost mosque has been halted after Norway refused to accept fuding from an Arab donor, with the government on Monday citing a lack of religious freedom in his...
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