San Diego (California) – Abdul Rahman Bitar - The American coastal city of San Diego never saw anything like this. The young Canadian violinist of Polish origin with a typical Arab first name, Leila...
LOS ANGELES- Iconoclastic R&B singer Erykah Badu has struck a raw nerve in the United States, not just for stripping off in her new video but for being completely comfortable in her own skin...
WASHINGTON- Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa on Monday were awarded the Pritzker Architectural Prize, the industry's most coveted award.
"The formal ceremony for what has come...
STOCKHOLM- Two German production companies are preparing to make the first feature-length film about the life of Sweden's most popular children's book author, Pippi Longstocking creator Astrid...
LOS ANGELES - Animation adventure "How to Train Your Dragon" roared to the top of the North American box office in its debut weekend, beating out "Alice in Wonderland" in a battle of the 3-D...
DUBLIN, Guy Jackson - Ireland is hoping to reclaim the leprechaun from Hollywood with a new museum that, with a twinkle in its eye, places the fabled little figures back in their mythological...
BEIJING - A planned anti-graft museum in southwest China is asking the public to nominate the 100 most corrupt officials of the past century, state media reported Saturday.
Fan Jianchuan, who...
LOS ANGELES- The popular television cop series "24," starring Kiefer Sutherland as detective Jack Bauer, will come to an end with the last episode of this its eighth season, Fox television network...
LONDON- Noel Gallagher played his first concert since splitting from Oasis, earning rave reviews Friday for an acoustic set entirely composed of the band's classics.
The guitarist, who quit the...
WASHINGTON, Virginie Montet - When Elvis Presley made his debut he triggered a wave of conservative media outrage scandalized by the young pop idol who they swiftly denounced as a "threat to the...