HONG KONG- Hong Kong government surveyors who proposed historic status for a rare Italian renaissance mansion were left embarrassed after it turned out the house was a copy of one demolished 20 years...
PARIS, Roland Lloyd Parry - Film star Kevin Spacey and his friend the Hollywood director Sam Mendes brought Shakespeare to Paris this week in a global theatre project that the actor said had beaten...
NEW YORK- Frantic 911 callers have been flooding New York police lines after seeing what appeared to be a person perched on an elevated ledge of the Empire State Building and preparing to jump....
JERUSALEM- Israel's supreme court has gone against the government to allow Arab Israeli author Ala Hlehel to travel to Beirut to collect a literature prize, court officials said on Wednesday....
LONDON- Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet threw her weight Wednesday behind a campaign against foie gras, narrating a video which she said shows the "terrifying and painful" way the food is...
LOS ANGELES- Action movie actor Steven Seagal is being sued by a former assistant who has accused the reality television star of sexual harassment, court papers filed in Los Angeles showed Tuesday....
BERLIN- A memorial service for Richard Wagner's grandson Wolfgang Wagner, who died March 21 aged 90, was the scene of fresh squabbles among the composer's descendents, German newspapers reported...
LONDON- The Royal Shakespeare Company gave Romeo and Juliet an interactive modern makeover on Monday with the Bard's classic lines replaced by Twitter messages such as "Jules is over and out!!!"....
BRASILIA- Director James Cameron was in Brazil on Monday to lend his "Avatar" success to the fight against a controversial dam project he denounced as an "ecological disaster."
Cameron, who made a...
PARIS- A French pop singer is suing a television news channel for airing rumours that he was having an affair with first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, according to court papers seen by AFP on Friday....
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