HANOI, Ian Timberlake- She stands in the narrow doorway, a dark tunnel stretching behind her until it ends at a patch of light half a block away.
Inside the tunnel are tiny rooms the old woman and...
SYDNEY- Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett will extend her term as artistic director of one of Australia's biggest theatre companies until 2013, reports said Friday.
Blanchett and writer husband...
VIENNA - Vienna's traditional New Year's concert, led once again by the dynamic French conductor Georges Pretre, will reach out to an even wider audience this year, broadcasting to 72 countries...
LYON, Coralie Febvre - "Respect the listener. No need to bark like a dog," instructor Patrick Arnissole warns, as one of his students blurts improvised DJ patter into the microphone.
"Give it more...
PATNA, Imran Khan - After being neglected and forgotten for decades, the birthplace of George Orwell, the author of "Animal Farm" and "1984", is finally set for a makeover.
Orwell was born Eric...
LOS ANGELES- Hollywood actor Charlie Sheen held his wife at knifepoint and threatened to kill her before being arrested on charges of domestic violence, official documents published by US media...
NEW YORK - Photographs of the first immigrant to land at New York's famed Ellis Island have been unearthed almost 120 years after she arrived in the United States as a girl from Ireland.
Teenager...
ROME - A small wooden guitar painted by Pablo Picasso for his daughter Paloma has been found in a shoe box in the apartment of an Italian businessman in Pomezia, near Rome, Italian media reported...
LOS ANGELES- A pack of hit films led by science fiction epic "Avatar" sent North American box office figures surging to the highest-grossing weekend in movie history, an industry tracker said...
BERLIN - British actor Hugh Grant said he dreams of running away from Hollywood and publishing a book, in an interview with a German newspaper Sunday.
"I have always promised myself: 'When you...
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