LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles court has given a nod to a touring exhibition of Michael Jackson memorabilia, despite objections from the late singer's mother Katherine Jackson.
Los Angeles Superior...
MADRID - Canadian director Adam Egoyan's psychological drama "Chloe" starring Liam Neeson and Julianne Moore will open the San Sebastian film festival next month, the organisers announced Friday....
LONDON - Puerto Rican opera singer Ana Maria Martinez was taken to hospital Friday after falling into the orchestra pit at Glyndebourne, a spokeswoman for the British festival said.
The...
LONDON - London's Heathrow airport has appointed a writer-in-residence to muse on the world of flight delays, passport controls and duty-free shops, officials said Wednesday.
Alain de Botton, a...
BUENOS AIRES - A music promoter was sentenced to 20 years in prison Wednesday after being found responsible for a 2004 fire that swept through his crowded discotheque, killing 194 people.
Omar...
NICE - Fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier, clad only in a white dressing gown, was among 158 staff and guests forced to evacuate a luxury French hotel on Tuesday following a bomb threat.
The...
LOS ANGELES - Hollywood legend Robert Redford has signed up to direct a historical drama about the assassination of US president Abraham Lincoln, The Hollywood Reporter said Tuesday.
Lincoln,...
Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-94) is one of the most important poets of the nineteenth century. She is also known as having been a member of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, her brother being the...
BERLIN, Audrey Kauffmann - As German as the Brandenburg Gate, the nation's favourite snack, the curried sausage or "currywurst", has now got its own museum, a shrine to the saucy delicacy that has...
TALLINN - Estonian-American conductor Neeme Jarvi is to take the helm of Estonia's National Symphony Orchestra three decades after fleeing Soviet rule in the Baltic state.
"The Estonian national...
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