LOS ANGELES- The new Harry Potter film will only be released in standard 2D next month, after the US studio making it said Friday it had abandoned efforts to convert the movie into a 3D version in...

OSLO, Aira-Katariina Vehaskari- Jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, sparking a furious backlash from Beijing and renewed Western calls for his immediate...

LIMA- Nobel Literature Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa is a giant of Latin America culture whose work explores universal themes in books and essays often set far outside his native Peru. The...

STOCKHOLM- A Swedish museum only learned of the theft of three of its works of art, including a valuable Edvard Munch painting, after they were discovered by police during a raid, media reported...

VIENNA- The ballet company of the Vienna Opera has fired one of its dancers over a series of risque pictures that appeared in a magazine, the opera's director confirmed Thursday. Karina Sarkissova...

JUBA- Hollywood star George Clooney is on a tour of south Sudan drawing attention to his fears for war as the region builds up to a vote on whether to break away from Africa's biggest nation....

WASHINGTON- A team of linguists announced Tuesday that they have discovered a new and unique language, called Koro, in northeastern India, but immediately warned that it was highly endangered....

COPENHAGEN- Danes quick to evoke freedom of expression to justify art deemed offensive by Muslims are not so liberal when it comes to lampooning the royal family, a group of Danish artists said...

FRANKFURT, Richard Carter- The world's biggest book fair opened Tuesday, with an increased number of exhibitors expected to focus on the digital and multimedia sectors that are rapidly transforming...