HAVANA, Isabel Sanchez- Cuba's iconic former leader Fidel Castro says his childhood struggle against unjust authority turned him into a rebel and revolutionary, in extracts of his upcoming...

BEIJING- China's culture minister Friday lashed out at "vulgar" popular culture and said few of the thousands of books and films the country produced every year were likely to be regarded as...

LONDON- British pop star Robbie Williams will marry his US actress girlfriend this weekend on an island off the California coast, a newspaper said Friday. The singer, 36 -- who recently rejoined...

THE HAGUE, Mariette le Roux- Supermodel Naomi Campbell told a court Thursday how she received a pouch of rough diamonds as a late-night gift she assumed came from a former Liberian president in the...

LONDON- Pablo Picasso's largest-ever painting, a 10.4 metre-by-11.7 metre cloth used in a performance of the Ballets Russes in 1924, went on exhibition for the first time in London on Thursday....

JENIN, Joseph Krauss- A film festival opened on Thursday in a newly restored cinema in Jenin, a West Bank town battered by some of the worst violence of the 2000 Palestinian uprising. The festival...

ROME- Two hundred photographs and magazine covers on show at an exhibit opening on Wednesday depict the golden age of Italian cinema in the 1950s and 1960s, as the country reveled in its Dolce Vita...

RIO DE JANEIRO- British-Indian author Salman Rushdie and Chilean writer Isabel Allende are set to bring their celebrity to Brazil's biggest literary festival which started Wednesday. The event,...

GENEVA- Switzerland's Locarno Film Festival opened on Wednesday for 10 days of arthouse movies, including a premiere for an explicit gay alien zombie movie that was sidelined by Australian censors...