LONDON- Hollywood royalty Kevin Spacey was honoured by genuine British aristocracy on Wednesday when Prince Charles presented him with an award for his services to drama. The Oscar-winning star...

TOKYO- Conductor Seiji Ozawa, recovering from cancer, on Tuesday became the first Japanese to be made an honorary member of the prestigious Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. As the orchestra toured...

TUNIS- "Microphone", about young hip hop and graffiti artists in Egypt's second city Alexandria, scooped the top award Sunday of Tunisia's Carthage Film Festival showcasing African and Arab cinema....

LONDON- British singer Lily Allen has suffered a miscarriage, her spokesman said Monday. Allen, whose hits include "Smile" and "The Fear", is thought to have been around six months pregnant and...

MIAMI- Ricky Martin releases a long-awaited autobiography on Tuesday, telling of his rise from a Puerto Rican boy band to international stardom and his tricky decision in March to come out as gay....

THE HAGUE- Dutch author Harry Mulisch, whose work spawned an Oscar-winning film, has died of cancer aged 83, his family and publisher announced on Sunday. "Surrounded by his family, he died at his...

DOHA- "Hawi" directed by Egypt's Ibrahim al-Batout won the best Arab film award and Josef Fares, a Swedish-Lebanese director, was voted best director at the The Doha Tribeca Film Festival. Set in...

ROME- "La Dolce Vita" marked a turning point in world cinema and redefined the rules of filmmaking, US director Martin Scorsese said Saturday at a screening of a remastered version of the Italian...

NEW DELHI, Beatrice Le Bohec - The epic, emotional intensity of India's independence is given a candid, intimate twist in a retrospective in New Delhi of the work of the country's first woman...