NEW YORK, UNITED STATES- Pop superstar Beyonce pleaded Thursday for an end to the "war" on minorities in the United States after another two contentious killings by police of African-Americans. The...

AVIGNON, FRANCE, Marie-Pierre Ferey- On paper it was already theatrical TNT. One of the hottest directors in the world and some of France's greatest stage actors in a play warning about the slide...

BOGOTA, COLOMBIA- A new species of tarantula has been identified near the home town of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and in an unusual posthumous honor, the spider has been named for the late Nobel...

WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES- The US Library of Congress on Tuesday named Motown legend Smokey Robinson the latest winner of its Gershwin Prize, which honors living composers for their contributions to...

BERLIN, GERMANY, Simon Morgan- The edgiest of Berlin's three opera houses has been pulling in the crowds since Australian Barrie Kosky began unearthing a little-known repertoire from the turbulent...

BEIJING, CHINA- One of the world's leading collectors of Chinese art, Belgian billionaire Guy Ullens, is to give up his eponymous Beijing museum -- among the capital's top art centres -- and sell his...

MADRID, SPAIN- Nobel prize winning author J.M. Coetzee on Thursday denounced animal cruelty in a rare public reading, calling for humans to treat them with "justice". The 76-year-old novelist read an...

ISTANBUL, TURKEY- Istanbul's towering Camlica mosque will receive its first worshippers Friday, as Turkey unveils the latest grand project emblematic of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's big...

FRANKFURT, GERMANY- Shooting star Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons has withdrawn from this year's Bayreuth Festival, just a month before he was to open the legendary month-long summer opera festival,...