LONDON- The British comedian Norman Wisdom, who died on Monday aged 95, was best known for portraying the cheery cloth-capped "Gump", who provided an antidote to the bleak austerity of post-World War...
BRUSSELS- Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan brought along his own copy of EU president Herman Van Rompuy's haiku poems and had it autographed Monday.
A Japanese government spokesman, Noriyuki...
PARIS- US photographer and film-maker Larry Clark attacked a minimum 18 age-restriction on an exhibition of his work due to open in Paris as an attack by the older generation on teenagers.
Clark,...
WASHINGTON, Virginie Montet- It seems hardly a day passes without Congress throwing aside tradition and inviting Hollywood stars to push their pet causes on Capitol Hill, even as important...
LONDON- Tens of thousands of copies of the new novel by bestselling US author Jonathan Franzen, "Freedom", have been recalled after an early draft of the book was printed by mistake, his publisher...
LOS ANGELES- James Cameron's blockbuster "Titanic," the second-biggest earner in film history, will be released in 3D in 2012, a year that will also see a 3D re-release of "Star Wars," The Hollywood...
STOCKHOLM, Nina Larson- The Nobel Prize categories have basically remained unchanged for more than a hundred years and some critics are calling for them to be expanded to better reflect the modern...
NEW YORK- J.K. Rowling, the best-selling author of the Harry Potter series, said she could imagine herself resurrecting her lucrative boy wizard, despite having officially penned his final...
Los Angeles – Abdul Rahman Bitar - The Los Angeles Opera House produced four epic operas of Wagner’s “Ring” this summer before the Wagner mania caught fire in New York where the Ring will be...
COPENHAGEN- A book on the controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed will be released despite recent threats against Denmark linked to the case, the publisher said Wednesday.
"The book will...
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