Arts

First Asian tour group in post-Saddam Iraq - 05/10/2009

BAGHDAD- The first official Asian tour group to enter Iraq since the US-led invasion of 2003 is visiting historic and religious sites in the country, the tourism ministry said on Saturday. The...

Kiefer Sutherland arrested on assault charge - 05/09/2009

NEW YORK - Actor Kiefer Sutherland, best known for his television role as a special agent, was arrested Thursday on charges that he head-butted a fashion designer at a Manhattan party. "He was...

Manager who discovered Whitney Houston dies - 05/09/2009

BERLIN - Austrian music manager Monti Lueftner, credited with discovering Whitney Houston, has died in traffic accident in Munich at the age of 77, police said Friday. Lueftner worked in the music...

Carreras foundation denies tenor quitting opera - 05/09/2009

MADRID- Spanish tenor Jose Carreras is not quitting the operatic stage, a foundation he set up to fight leukaemia said Friday, stating that The Times of London "misinterpreted" remarks he made during...

'Springtime for Hitler' arrives in Germany - 05/08/2009

BERLIN, Deborah Cole - It has taken years to bring one of the world's most successful Broadway musicals to Europe's biggest nation but this is not just any play, or any country. "The Producers", a...

Couturier Pierre Cardin returns home from hospital - 05/08/2009

MARSEILLE - Star French couturier Pierre Cardin, 86, was on Thursday released from a hospital in the Mediterranean city of Marseille after a 48-hour stay caused by high blood pressure, his press...

Judge dismisses Polanski bid to quash sex case - 05/08/2009

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge on Thursday formally refused a bid by fugitive director Roman Polanski to dismiss a three-decade-old sex case against the film-maker after he failed to appear in...

Jelena Dokic's father arrested for threats to ambassador: report - 05/07/2009

BELGRADE - The father of tennis star Jelena Dokic was arrested Wednesday for having threatened the Australian ambassador to Serbia in an newspaper interview, said the interior minister, B92...

Bob Dylan tops British album charts once again - 05/07/2009

LONDON - Legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan jumped to the top of Britain's album charts on Sunday, almost 40 years since he last held the number one slot here, the Official Charts Company said....

A museum plans tests of Lincoln's blood - 05/06/2009

WASHINGTON - A museum in Philadelphia that possesses a sample of Abraham Lincoln's blood plans to submit the relic to scientific analysis in hopes of shedding light on the mysterious ailments that...
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