OSLO- 'Historien,' a rare lithograph by Edvard Munch worth 240,000 euros (356,000 dollars) was stolen in Oslo, police said Friday. A man wearing "hip-hop clothes and a baseball cap" according to a...

VIENNA- A major new exhibition opened in the Austrian capital's MUMOK Museum of Modern Art Friday exploring the role of gender in art from eastern Europe since the 1960s. With more than 400 works...

NEW YORK - A 1984 Michael Jackson portrait by pop-art icon Andy Warhol surpassed estimates to fetch 812,500 dollars at auction on Tuesday, but two headline pieces at the Christie's sale in New York...

PARIS, Carole Landry - French President Nicolas Sarkozy raised eyebrows Monday with his account of how he rushed to Berlin 20 years ago to witness the fall of the Wall as questions arose over the...

LOS ANGELES - Oscar-winners Gwyneth Paltrow and Nicole Kidman are to play husband and wife in an upcoming film about the world's first transsexual, it was reported Monday. Paltrow, 37, and Kidman...

NEW YORK, Paola Messana - Vladimir Nabokov wanted it burned on his death, but "The Original of Laura" survived and now, 32 years later, the unfinished novel is about to be published for the first...

PARIS- Japan's Dai Miyata, 23, won the Ninth Rostropovich cello competition at the final on Saturday in Paris, among the 64 musicians who competed in this year's event, organisers said. The winner...

SAO PAULO, Marc Burleigh- The Little Prince, the intergalactic boy traveler part of many childhoods around the world, is visiting Brazil in a show also honoring his adventuresome creator. The...

BEIRUT, Natacha Yazbeck- Anne Frank's diary has been censored out of a school textbook in Lebanon following a campaign by the militant group Hezbollah claiming the classic work promotes Zionism....