WASHINGTON, Stephen Collinson- Forty-six years after the Beatles invaded America, Paul McCartney rocked the White House Wednesday, honored by President Barack Obama at a star-studded concert...

LOS ANGELES- Actor Charlie Sheen is ready to plead guilty to misdemeanor charges related to alleged domestic violence against his wife and serve a 30-day jail sentence, US media has reported....

JOUY-EN-JOSAS, Claire Rosemberg- Pigs ears, smoked udders or veal lungs? French archaeologists this week begin examining the remains of an open-air banquet shoveled underground almost 30 years ago as...

DOHA- Five female news presenters at the pan-Arab Al-Jazeera satellite television channel have resigned over conflicts with management over dress code and other issues, a journalist there said on...

VIENNA- The Austrian National Library said Tuesday it would pay 135,000 euros (164,000 dollars) for thousands of books in its possession that were looted by the Nazis from Jews during World War II....

MOSCOW- Andrei Voznesensky, a Russian poet who became immensely popular in the 1960s but had an uneasy relationship with the Soviet authorities, died on Tuesday at age 77, news agencies reported....

ROME- French-American contemporary artist Louise Bourgeois, known for her series of giant metal spiders, has died in New York at the age of 98, an Italian foundation preparing an exhibition of her...

BRUSSELS- Lawyers for the publishers of the controversial "Tintin in the Congo" on Monday compared a legal attempt to ban the comic book, for racism, to book burning. "I cannot accept racism but I...

MADRID- A town in Spain is planning a legal claim for an estate run by the descendents of Britain's Duke of Wellington which a historian believes was obtained illegally, a newspaper reported Sunday....