LONDON- Ruth Padel became the first ever woman Professor of Poetry at Oxford University after beating an Indian poet in an election Saturday which ended an often bitter contest.
Padel, a distant...
CANNES- Emotional Korean tale "Mother" of a woman's relentless fight to save her backwards boy won a standing ovation for cult "The Host" director Bong Joon-ho at the Cannes festival Saturday....
LONDON - Oxford University said Tuesday that Nobel Prize winning poet Derek Walcott had pulled out of the race to become its next poetry professor, reportedly amid dirty tricks linked to alleged...
LOS ANGELES- Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese is to bring the life and times of Frank Sinatra to the big screen in the first ever feature film about the legendary entertainer, it was confirmed...
LOS ANGELES- Julia Roberts will play an army officer on leave from Iraq in an all-star romantic comedy also featuring Anne Hathaway, Jessica Alba, Shirley MacLaine and Jennifer Garner, it was...
LONDON - Britain's Prince Charles sought Tuesday to patch up a long-running row with architects over his traditionalist views on building design -- even as he dismissed the modern approach as...
NEW YORK - It may hurt, but a New York auction house is offering a collection of what it says are centuries-old torture instruments.
"These are devices created to cause pain ... very diabolical...
TEL AVIV, Djallal Malti - Israel's entry for the annual pilgrimage of kitsch and glitz that is the Eurovision song contest has a serious message this year -- an Arab and a Jew singing together for...
LOS ANGELES- The latest "Star Trek" enterprise beamed to the top of the North American box office this weekend, putting a Vulcan mind meld on "Wolverine" Hugh Jackman, preliminary industry figures...
NEW YORK, Charlotte Raab - Amazon unveiled a large-screen version of its popular Kindle electronic reader on Wednesday, promoting it as a handier device for reading newspapers, magazines and...
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