LONDON - Poet Christopher Reid was Tuesday announced as the surprise winner of a major British literary prize for a collection in memory of his late wife, hailed by judges as a "master work". The...

HAVANA - US philanthropist Gilbert Brownstone has donated 120 works by Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp and five other leading artists to Cuba's National Museum of Fine Art....

PARIS - Visionary screen story-teller Tim Burton is to head the jury at this year's Cannes film festival from May 12 to 23, in what the US director said "is a dream come true". "After spending my...

VIENNA- Musical and ballet tributes to composer Frederic Chopin, a medley of opera arias and a flutter of ballgowns will fill Vienna's State Opera House on February 11 for the 54th edition of its...

WASHINGTON - Bob Dylan, the legendary singer-songwriter whose angry lyrics formed a soundtrack for the 1960s protest era, will headline a White House celebration next month of music from the Civil...

BERLIN - The German rock band The Scorpions is breaking up after more than 40 years together courting controversy and selling more than 100 million recordings, its founder said in an interview...

HANOI- The mummified corpse of a Vietnamese king who died hundreds of years ago was reburied on Monday, half a century after farmers accidentally dug it up. State television showed a red cloth,...

LONDON- A unique collection of art goes on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London on Saturday -- all of it fake. More than 100 forged paintings and sculptures seized by the capital's...

URNAESCH, Hui Min Neo - Yodelling in the new year wearing a huge headdress and giant cowbells in the frozen countryside sounds more like comedy than a rite that reduces many Swiss to tears of...