WASHINGTON- Neil Armstrong, who turns 80 on Thursday, became the first human to set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969, before the eyes of hundreds of millions of television viewers worldwide, who...
BERLIN, Francis Curta- When an incendiary bomb hit in World War II, Berlin's Tell Halaf archaeological museum went up in flames and its 3,000-year-old statues were smashed to smithereens.
It has...
SEOUL- South Korean singer BoA will make her Hollywood acting debut early next year after taking East Asia by storm, her agency said Tuesday.
The 23-year-old, whose real name is Kwon Bo-A, will...
LONDON- A court jailed a British antiques dealer for eight years Monday for smuggling a stolen William Shakespeare manuscript to the United States and trying to sell it to pay for his playboy...
TOKYO- Acclaimed Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa plans a comeback concert next month, declaring he has started his "second life" after surgery for esophagus cancer and seven months of treatment....
LOS ANGELES - Sony Music will put on sale a collection of 10 previously unreleased songs by the late pop star Michael Jackson in November, Rolling Stone magazine reported.
The magazine said the...
TAIPEI, Peter Harmsen- When Taiwanese scholar Shih Cheng-feng was a boy, he was forced to speak a language that was not his own, and four decades later he still feels handicapped by his education....
MARSEILLE- US jazz singer Al Jarreau left a French hospital on Sunday after a week of treatment for breathing and heart problems that struck as he prepared to go on stage, his doctor said.
"We...
WASHINGTON- From "The Scream" to "The Kiss" and a series of Madonnas, the National Gallery of Art opened an exhibit Saturday exploring the haunting imagery and motifs of Norwegian artist Edvard...
DUISBURG, Francois Becker- Thousands of mourners paid their respects in Duisburg on Saturday to the 21 victims of the Love Parade disaster, forgetting their anger for a while to remember the dead....
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