LOS ANGELES, UNITED STATES, Frankie Taggart- "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" sees two iconic superheroes do battle on the big screen but a female character -- Wonder Woman -- is the real role...

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM- Peter Maxwell Davies, one of Britain's leading contemporary composers, died on Monday at the age of 81 after suffering from leukaemia, his management company said. A political...

DOHA, QATAR, David Harding- A Qatari poet, Rashid al-Ajami, has been pardoned and released after serving more than three years of a 15-year prison sentence for insulting the emir, his brother said...

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM- Anita Brookner, the author and art historian who won the 1984 Booker Prize for fiction, has died at the age of 87, it was announced Tuesday. The novelist, who won the Booker...

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM- The only surviving play script including William Shakespeare's handwriting, and containing a passionate speech against xenophobia, is being put online to mark the 400th...

PARIS, FRANCE, Laurence Benhamou- 3D reconstructions of some of Syria's most spectacular archaeological sites go online Tuesday after a big push to digitalise the war-torn country's threatened...

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES- A custody battle for a $100 million Picasso sculpture has intensified in New York between British agents acting on behalf of the Qatari royal family and a prominent American...

IDOMENI, GREECE- Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei set up a white grand piano in a muddy, rain-drenched refugee camp on the Greek-Macedonian border Saturday, allowing a young Syrian woman to tinkle...

BUCHAREST, ROMANIA- The opulent former residence of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was opened to the public for the first time on Saturday some 26 years after the fall of his Communist regime....