MADRID- Italian Renaissance painter Domenico Ghirlandaio is the focus of a new exhibition opening Wednesday at Madrid's Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum. The retrospective "Ghirlandaio and Renaissance...

PARIS- Twelve new photos of Michael Jackson taken in 1999 go under the hammer in Paris in December along with 700 contact sheets of the pop legend never before seen in public, auctioneers said...

SARAJEVO- Oscar-winning US star Morgan Freeman is to be a guest of honor at the 16th Sarajevo Film Festival next month, the organisers said on Monday. The nine-day festival, that opens on July 23,...

SHANGHAI, D'Arcy Doran - Hundreds of music lovers gathered around open air stages at temples, mansions and pedestrian streets on Sunday as France brought its "Fete de la Musique" to Shanghai for the...

LISBON, Anne le Coz- Hundreds of people, some bearing red carnations, paid their last respects to Portuguese Nobel literature laureate Jose Saramago whose body was returned home Saturday after 17...

BEIJING- The publisher of former Chinese premier Li Peng's purported diary said Saturday it had had to halt the eagerly awaited release of the memoirs due to "copyright issues." Excerpts from the...

LONDON- A man deliberately "mutilated" a priceless original Shakespeare folio in a bid to cover up the fact that he stole it, a British court heard Thursday. Raymond Scott, 53, ripped the binding,...

OTTAWA- Canadian opera icon Maureen Forrester died overnight at the age of 79, with her family at her bedside in Toronto, local media said Thursday. Born in Montreal, she was the youngest of four...

PARIS, Nadege Puljak- President Nicolas Sarkozy travels to London on Friday to mark the 70th anniversary of Charles de Gaulle's stirring radio appeal to his compatriots to resist the Nazi occupation...