LECH AM ARLBERG- British sculptor Antony Gormley has stood 100 life-size human figures in the Austrian Alps in an new installation spread across kilometres that officially opened Saturday.
Gormley...
YANGON- North Korean embassy officials have seized hundreds of copies of an unauthorised biography of their reclusive leader Kim Jong-Il in Myanmar, the author said Friday.
Hein Latt, 62, a...
TOKYO- Japanese pop star Noriko Sakai, who was last year convicted of illegal drug use, has been divorced from her surfer husband, who taught her the habit, press reports said Friday.
"We have...
NEW YORK, Sebastian Smith- While audiences at Broadway's "West Side Story" thrill to the on-stage drama, musicians in the orchestra pit are fighting a battle every bit as vicious as the Sharks-Jets...
NEW DELHI- The real jewel in Britain's actual crown will not be returning to India, Prime Minister David Cameron said Thursday, as he ruled out any repatriation of the famed Kohinoor diamond.
The...
ROME- The new generation of filmmakers will come into its own at this year's Venice film festival, where 41-year-old US director Darren Aronofsky will raise the curtain with "Black Swan", organisers...
LOS ANGELES- Sixty-five photographic plates bought at a garage sale for 45 dollars have been authenticated as the work of famed photographer Ansel Adams and valued at 200 million dollars, the owner...
LOS ANGELES- British actor Daniel Craig will star in "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," Hollywood's first adaptation of one of late Swedish author Stieg Larsson's record-setting Millennium Trilogy, a...
SAINT PETERSBURG- In a first for modern Russia, a leading Russian theatre on Wednesday appointed a celebrated Spanish choreographer as its ballet director.
The Mikhailovsky Theatre in Saint...
PARIS- Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, on Tuesday made her acting debut with Hollywood star Owen Wilson in a Woody Allen film being shot in Paris.
The veteran US...
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