NEW YORK, UNITED STATES- The award-winning children's novelist Paula Fox, known for frankly exploring abandonment and loss, has died in New York. She was 93. Fox died at a hospital near her Brooklyn...
MINYA, EGYPT, Tony Gamal-Gabriel- In Egypt's conservative southern province of Minya, young girls in black leotards and white tights wobble on their tip toes to classical music in a room painted with...
LOS ANGELES, UNITED STATES- The two accountants involved in the embarrassing mix-up at Sunday's Oscars will not be invited back to the show, a spokesperson for the Academy told AFP on Wednesday....
GAZA CITY, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES, Mai Yaghi- Mossab Abu Toha has never actually left Gaza, instead devouring books as an escape. Now he is struggling to open the first English-language library in...
HOLLYWOOD, UNITED STATES, Frankie Taggart- Coming-of-age drama "Moonlight" celebrated its best picture Oscar Monday with the rest of Hollywood still reeling over an embarrassing mixup that threatened...
HOLLYWOOD, UNITED STATES, Frankie Taggart- Heavily-backed favorite Mahershala Ali won the best supporting actor Oscar on Sunday for his portrayal of a drug dealer in coming-of-age drama "Moonlight"...
VATICAN CITY, HOLY SEE- The famous frescoes of the Sistine Chapel, whose ceiling was painted by Michelangelo, can now be examined in minute detail thanks to an unprecedented photographic venture, the...
PARIS, FRANCE, Fiachra Gibbons- An artist entombed inside a 12-tonne rock for nearly three days has described the experience as like "tripping", insisting he would stick it out for a week. Speaking...
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES- Rihanna may be best known as an R&B superstar, but on Wednesday she was named the 2017 Harvard University Humanitarian of the Year for her charity work. The 29-year-old...
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM- A performance by Katy Perry at the Brit Awards on Wednesday saw skeletons wearing outfits matching those of US President Donald Trump and his British counterpart Theresa May....
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