MOSCOW, Antoine Lambroschini- Some 2,000 people Sunday crammed into a Moscow square amid a heavy police presence for a banned rock concert to protest plans to build a motorway through a forest...

CAIRO, Ines Bel Aiba- Egypt on Sunday stepped up the search for a Van Gogh painting valued at 55 million dollars stolen in broad daylight from a Cairo museum where the surveillance cameras and alarms...

CAIRO- Two Italians were arrested at Cairo airport trying to smuggle out a Van Gogh painting stolen from a museum earlier on Saturday, Egypt's Culture Minister Faruq Hosni told AFP. "Two Italians,...

ROME- US film director Woody Allen praised French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy's acting after working with her on a movie he is shooting in Paris. "She was very professional, she interpreted the...

BERLIN- Christoph Schlingensief, one of Germany's most provocative theatre directors, died of lung cancer on Saturday, organisers of the Ruhr Triennale festival said. He was 49. Schlingensief, a...

SARAJEVO- Hollywood star Angelina Jolie called on Bosnian leaders to speed up the return of thousands of refugees from the brutal 1990s civil war as she made a surprise visit to Sarajevo on...

JERUSALEM- An Israeli court has ordered the release of a settler rabbi detained after he outlined in a book cases in which he said it is permissible to kill non-Jews, including babies, an...

BERKHAMSTED, Robin Millard- Examining buckled film reels under a microscope, technicians pore over each precious original frame of Alfred Hitchcock's early movies as Britain bids to salvage the...

SHANGHAI- A 23-year-old man who lost his arms in a childhood accident could become China's answer to Susan Boyle after wowing judges and the audience on a TV talent show by playing piano with his...