DAKAR - Senegalese singer Youssou Ndour has used his star power to draw attention to the fight against malaria in his west African homeland, kicking off a new awareness campaign about the disease....
LOS ANGELES, June 21, 2009 (AFP) - "The Proposal," a romantic comedy starring Sandra Bullock, came in number one at the North American box office at the weekend, pushing "The Hangover" out of the top...
NEW YORK, Chris Lefkow - Arjun Basu writes short stories. Very short stories.
"I'm doing 140-character stories on Twitter," said Basu, one of scores of authors, poets and other creative types who...
LILONGWE- Madonna's adopted Malawian daughter has flown out of the country to join the pop star, a Lilongwe airport official said Saturday.
"Mercy James left Malawi to join Madonna on Friday...
MADRID- Spain on Saturday launched the first international day to celebrate the Spanish language, spoken by 450 million people around the world, with events planned in 43 countries.
The Cervantes...
STOCKHOLM, Marc Preel - Ikea, the low-cost Swedish retailer that has furnished millions of homes around the globe, moved into the world of fine art with a Stockholm museum's retrospective of its 50...
ADDIS ABABA- The UN Development Programme, the AFP Foundation and Japanese camera-maker Olympus on Friday launched an African photography contest to highlight the effects of climate change on the...
ATHENS, Helene Colliopoulou - Greece's Acropolis Museum will finally be unveiled on Saturday, an ultra-modern glass building at the foot of the ancient citadel originally intended to be open in time...
BERLIN, June 18, 2009 (AFP) - Ralf Dahrendorf, the German-British sociologist and politician, has died aged 80, a spokeswoman for the Berlin social research centre where he was a professor said on...
PARIS- Woody Allen suggested Thursday that French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy could star in one of his films, saying the former supermodel had the charisma to pull off an acting role.
The US...
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