ROME- Pop diva Madonna arrived Sunday in the Italian Riviera resort of Portofino for a star-studded 51st birthday celebration, the ANSA news agency reported. The American singer booked an entire...

HONG KONG - A French artist who sprayed a bleeding Chanel logo on one of Hong Kong's most expensive pieces of real estate was Friday handed a suspended sentence by a city court. Christophe...

LONDON - Pop star George Michael was arrested and questioned after his Land Rover car collided with a lorry in Britain, but the singer insisted Saturday he was "stone cold sober" at the time. The...

LOS ANGELES - British screen star Kate Winslet, who won the 2009 best actress Oscar, will take the lead role in a television adaptation of "Mildred Pierce," based on the novel by James M. Cain,...

PARIS - US novels are catching on like wildfire in France, with almost 20 percent of next season's 659 new books penned in America. Of the 229 novels translated into French for release from...

ADDIS ABABA - Teddy Afro, one of Ethiopia's most popular singers, was released from prison Thursday after more than a year behind bars for a 2006 road accident in which a homeless was killed....

BAGHDAD, Khalil Jalil- Moves by Iraq's government to control the flow of information both in print and online have raised fears of a crackdown on free speech reminiscent of the regime of ex-dictator...

SALZBURG, Simon Morgan- Rossini's rarely performed "Moise et Pharaon", being staged at this year's Salzburg Festival, is the operatic equivalent of a Hollywood biblical epic by Cecil B. DeMille....

PARIS- A French hip hop group who this month became world champion in the genre but is virtually a nobody in France is to perform on stage for the first time in Paris in October. The debut stage...