VIENNA- Hollywood actress Whoopi Goldberg will be the guest of honour at Vienna's glitzy AIDS charity Life Ball on July 17, organiser Gery Keszler announced Wednesday. The...

COLOMBO- US singer Akon will not be granted a visa to visit Sri Lanka for a sell-out concert after Buddhist monks and almost 12,000 people on social media site Facebook took offence at one of his...

PARIS- US artist Cy Twombly unveiled his latest work in one of the oldest wings of Paris's Louvre museum Tuesday, a blue ceiling with discus-shaped colours which the 81-year-old completed with help...

LONG ASHTON- Hundreds of mourners attended the funeral Tuesday of a French resistance heroine who saved scores of Allied lives and survived a Nazi firing squad. The coffin of Andree Peel -- known...

LOS ANGELES- Popeye's famously massive forearms will bulge larger than ever when the squinty-eyed sailor makes his return to the big screen in 3D, industry media reported Tuesday. Variety magazine...

ABIDJAN, Evelyne Aka - Marguerite Abouet's hugely popular series of books, centred on the life of a young woman in a cheerful Ivory Coast suburb, show an Africa far from stereotypes of war and...

TOKYO- Hollywood heartthrob Johnny Depp, star of hit 3-D movie "Alice in Wonderland", said Monday that his own personality meant it was only a matter of time till he played a character such as the...

MEXICO CITY, Jennifer Gonzalez - An opera based on a modern-day myth of a drug trafficker's murderous lover has provoked fresh debate around music that glorifies Mexico's murky world of drug...

NEW YORK, Sebastian Smith - From "Avatar" to "Lord of the Rings" plants are no strangers to playing big movie roles, but no one's ever shot a film the plants themselves can watch. Until now. In a...