Damascus, AlHdHod - The literary elite gathered in Damascus to mourn the Syrian poet Ali Aljundi, on the fortieth day after his passing. Among the mourners were the children of the poet, and...
STOCKHOLM - Spanish tenor Placido Domingo on Tuesday received the first Birgit Nilsson prize from Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf, and said it was like winning the "Nobel prize of music."
The...
FRANKFURT, William Ickes- Chinese writers, publishers and artists backed by Beijing and others were set to mark the world's largest book fair Wednesday with hundreds of stories from the most populous...
LOS ANGELES - Relationship comedy "Couples Retreat" shot to the top of the North American box office in its first week of release, final figures showed Monday.
The movie, starring comic favorites...
STOCKHOLM - A record five women won Nobel prizes this year, beating the previous record of three, with Elinor Ostrom of the United States becoming the first woman to win the Economics Prize on...
LOS ANGELES - Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel has cast a spell over Tinseltown after electrifying a star-studded audience at the opening of the Los Angeles Philharmonic's new season.
The...
LOS ANGELES - Hundreds of personal items belonging to Hollywood icon Barbra Streisand will go under the hammer in Beverly Hills this month as fans get a glimpse of the way she was.
Around 400...
WARSAW- An exhibit exploring the career of Franco-Polish film-maker Roman Polanski opened Thursday in a film museum in Lodz, the Polish city where the embattled director studied cinema.
The museum...
NEW YORK - Influential fashion photographer Irving Penn, known for his elegant, minimalist portraits, died Wednesday. He was 92.
Penn was long associated with Vogue magazine, where he first began...
LONDON - British "Harry Potter" actress Maggie Smith fears taking to the stage again after suffering breast cancer, which left her bald during filming of the last Potter movie, she said in an...
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