BEIJING - Chinese film director Zhang Yimou will return to Beijing's Bird's Nest stadium, scene of his spectacular Olympic opening ceremony, to stage a version of the opera Turandot, state press said...
LONDON - Troubled British pop singer Amy Winehouse has cancelled a planned comeback show in London after a prolonged holiday in St. Lucia clouded by reports of ill-health, her management said...
CANNES, Claire Rosemberg - Heath Ledger on Friday took a final bow at Cannes, starring in a last unfinished role cut short by his death in the fantasy movie brought to the festival by cult director...
MADRID - Madrid's Prado Museum opens a retrospective next week of impressionist-inspired artist Joaquin Sorolla, 102 works that include his most famous paintings of children on beaches under bright...
CANNES, Fabienne Faur and Audrey Stuart- Even ordinary people get to walk up Cannes' fabled red carpet and rub shoulders with the stars at the world's top film festival. But it takes luck and a lot...
MOSCOW- Oleg Yankovsky, a popular Russian actor best known internationally for his work with dissident Soviet filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, died of cancer Wednesday aged 65.
Yankovsky died early...
LOS ANGELES - Soul singer Natalie Cole was recovering in a Los Angeles hospital Wednesday after undergoing a kidney transplant, her publicists said in a statement.
Cole, 59, was "resting...
THE HAGUE - Oscar winner Angelina Jolie attended a war crimes trial in The Hague on Tuesday, hailing the bravery of youngsters who testified against Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga....
CANNES, Claire Rosemberg- Temperamental football legend Eric Cantona scored a new triumph Monday, this time as star of a potential Cannes festival award-winner, British director Ken Loach's "Looking...
SIOUX FALLS - British football star and Hollywood tough guy Vinnie Jones smiled and mouthed "thank you" to a jury that found him not guilty Friday of assault charges.
Jones was arrested for...