LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, Alice Ritchie- Kenny Baker, the British actor who starred as plucky robot R2-D2 in the "Star Wars" movies, died on Saturday at the age of 81, his agent and relatives said....
SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA- US actor Robert De Niro was on Friday opened the Sarajevo film festival which honoured the star with a lifetime's achievement award. The 72-year-old, who has starred...
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES- Musicians including Jackson Browne and Rosanne Cash will lead some 100 simultaneous concerts across the United States next month aimed at putting persistent gun violence high...
JERUSALEM, UNDEFINED- Israel's Supreme Court has ruled that Franz Kafka's manuscripts are the property of the National Library of Israel, ending a lengthy legal battle, judicial sources said in...
GDANSK, POLAND- The migration crisis, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and censorship in Iran were among the themes woven into Shakespearean classics performed in Poland's port city of Gdansk this...
MARCIAC, FRANCE, Loïc Vennin- The shadow cast by the reputation of film director and actor dad Clint Eastwood is a lengthy one -- but jazz bassist son Kyle has stepped beyond it and is grabbing his...
PARIS, FRANCE, Pascale Mollard / Mariëtte Le Roux- Researchers used super-X-ray vision to peer beneath the surface of a portrait by impressionist Edgar Degas and gaze upon the model whose likeness he...
LOS ANGELES, UNITED STATES- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Cheryl Boone Isaacs, who is African American, has been re-elected for a fourth term as the organization pushes for...
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES- Britney Spears, who soared to stardom as a teen idol before a highly public fall, is releasing an album one more time. Spears announced Wednesday that her ninth album,...
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM- A defining portrait of England's queen Elizabeth I has been bought for the nation, auctioneers said Friday, after thousands of donations to a fundraising campaign to keep the...
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