ROME - Archaeologists have found the wreckage of five ships dating back to the Roman era along with their cargo of ancient jars and vases off the coast of Italy, ANSA news agency reported on...

LAGOS - Nigerian militants waging war on its government's policies in the Niger Delta received celebrity backing Friday from a Nobel prize-winning playwright and author. The 1986 Nobel laureate in...

BAYREUTH - The curtain went up on the first night of the 98th Bayreuth Festival on Saturday, with a gala performance of "Tristan and Isolde", attended by Germany's political and social elite....

MELBOURNE, Neil Sands - A hard-hitting movie depicting the infamous killing of six Australian-based journalists during Indonesia's 1975 invasion of East Timor should prompt war crimes charges, its...

LONDON - Queen Elizabeth II on Friday toured a new exibition of gifts given to her on Commonwealth tours, but wondered whether some were "illegal" and would have to be handed back. Three whale...

BREGENZ, Simon Morgan - There can't be many operatic stages more spectacular than Bregenz's outdoor Lake Stage, built on Lake Constance with its stunning mountain vistas and beautiful gold and purple...

VIENNA - The International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg announced Thursday that it had discovered two previously unknown compositions written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. "The Department of...

LOS ANGELES - Federal agents and detectives swooped on the offices of Michael Jackson's doctor Wednesday as lawyers for the physician revealed police are treating the star's death as possible...

PARIS - France's national broadcast institute said Wednesday it has donated a archive of 110 filmed interviews on the Holocaust to Jerusalem's Yad Vashem memorial. Shot over 18 months in 2005 and...