NEW YORK, UNITED STATES- Pop superstar Rihanna has surpassed The Beatles as the artist to rule the US singles chart for the second longest. Rihanna's "Work," which features input from rapper Drake...
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM- Queen Elizabeth II's official 90th birthday portraits released Thursday were taken by the celebrity photographer at the centre of one of the fiercest recent controversies to...
Abu Dhabi - The Sheikh Zayed Book Award’s board of trustees and scientific committee announced today that the Lebanese-born French novelist Amin Maalouf has won this year’s Cultural Personality of...
BAMAKO, MALI, Serge Daniel- Pioneering Malian photographer Malick Sidibe, whose powerful black and white images of local life won him international acclaim and top awards, has died aged 80, his...
MADRID, SPAIN, Marianne Barriaux- He is best known for "Don Quixote", but the eventful life of Spain's revered author Miguel de Cervantes was just as intriguing as any adventures of the delusional...
LOS ANGELES, UNITED STATES, Veronique Dupont- Born in Cuba to African slaves, Rafael Padilla battled racism to become the toast of bourgeois Paris, feted by the rich and powerful for his performances...
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES, John Biers- More than 400 years after her rule, Queen Elizabeth I will appear on the Metropolitan Opera stage this weekend for "Roberto Devereux," capping a season of...
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES, John Biers- Conductor James Levine, who led the Metropolitan Opera for 40 years as its music director, will retire at the end of the current season for health reasons, the...
ROME, ITALY- Italian researchers said Thursday they have discovered living relatives of the Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci, despite the loss of his body centuries ago. Historians Alessandro...
PARIS, FRANCE, Franck Iovene and Jean-Francois Guyot- A painting discovered in the attic of a house in France is an "authentic" work by Italian Renaissance master Caravaggio that could be worth up to...
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