LONDON- Electronic band The xx have scooped prestigious British music award the Mercury Prize for their debut album "xx", beating off stiff competition from a host of top acts. Judges handed the...

PARIS- France's 70-year-old foreign minister, former humanitarian champion Bernard Kouchner, is to marry his long-term companion in Rome, a source close to the political veteran said Wednesday....

LONDON, Robin Millard- Peter Carey could scoop the Booker Prize for a record third time after the Australian author was named on the shortlist Tuesday for one of the world's most prestigious literary...

NOWSHERA- Hollywood star Angelina Jolie Tuesday visited Pakistan's northwest to draw the world's attention towards the plight of 21 million people affected by the country's worst-ever floods....

DUBLIN- Irish scientists have found fragments of Egyptian papyrus in the leather cover of an ancient book of psalms that was unearthed from a peat bog, Ireland's National Museum said on Monday....

LONDON- Britain's former prime minister Tony Blair on Monday cancelled a planned book signing session in London to promote his memoirs after anti-war protestors threatened to target it. The...

PARIS, Rory Mulholland- Sexist, obscene, racist were the accusations thrown at Michel Houellebecq over his previous novels. Now it's plagiarism, after France's best-known living writer allegedly cut...

COPENHAGEN- Art critics dismissed Bob Dylan as an amateur painter and said his work had no place in Denmark's largest museum, after the American music icon's new painting collection opened in...

LOS ANGELES- "The American," the spy thriller headlined by Geoge Clooney, soared to the top of the North American box office this weekend beating gory action film "Machete," final figures showed...