MADRID - Relatives of Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, who was killed during Spain's 1936-39 civil war, urged the government of Andalucia on Monday to stop efforts to exhume his remains. The...

LOS ANGELES- Tongue-in-cheek comedy "Zombieland" took a bite out of the North American box office this weekend, munching its way to top spot in its first week of release, final figures showed...

MONTREAL- Britain's Prince Charles will visit Canada with his wife Camilla between November 2 and 12, the Canadian government said on Saturday. "The visit by Their Royal Highnesses is a great...

LOS ANGELES- Los Angeles's top prosecutor hit back at supporters of arrested director Roman Polanski on Thursday, rejecting claims that authorities were "persecuting" the disgraced film-maker....

PARIS, September 30, 2009 (AFP) - Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco is being given carte blanche at the Louvre museum this year, the latest eminent citizen of the world to be given a free...

BRUSSELS- Belgium's Europalia cultural festival marks its 40th birthday from next month with a programme involving some 450 shows and around 50 exhibitions focused on 5,000 years of Chinese history....

ADDIS ABABA - One of Ethiopia's most popular singers, Teddy Afro, announced Monday that his return to the stage after two years in prison will be a benefit concert for street children. During a...

GENEVA - The French consul general in Zurich said after visiting Roman Polanski in a Swiss prison on Monday that the film maker was being well treated following his arrest on a US warrant. "Mr...

THE HAGUE - US bank JP Morgan Chase has renounced a claim to an artwork that Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum bought from a Dutch multimillionaire who had used it as loan collateral, the two parties said...