NEW YORK, UNITED STATES- The Metropolitan Opera said Wednesday it will stage "L'Amour de Loin," a medieval love story set in Lebanon, marking the first time in a century the company performs a work...
WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES- A painting by Camille Pissarro will return to a Jewish family in France whose art collection was looted by the Nazis in 1941, a lawyer who led the negotiations said. The...
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM- British cinematographer Douglas Slocombe, who filmed the Nazi invasion of Poland and went on to work with Steven Spielberg on the "Indiana Jones" films, has died at the age of...
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM- Manuscripts, portraits and even a pair of cloth boots belonging to English author Charlotte Bronte went on display in London on Monday to celebrate the 200th anniversary of...
KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN, Anuj Chopra- With her kohl-rimmed eyes cast down, Nadia lilts through a folk couplet before a secret assembly of women poets on a forbidden subject that often gets people...
BERLIN, GERMANY, Deborah Cole- Italian director Gianfranco Rosi's "Fire at Sea", a harrowing documentary about Europe's refugee crisis, clinched the Berlin film festival's Golden Bear top prize on...
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES, Jennie Matthew- Harper Lee, one of America's most celebrated novelists whose masterpiece about racial injustice "To Kill a Mockingbird" was read by millions, has died, her...
ROME, ITALY, Angus Mackinnon- Italy was in mourning Saturday following the death of Umberto Eco, the literary and intellectual phenomenon who wrote "The Name of the Rose" and was cherished as one of...
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES, Jennie Matthew- Lady Gaga walked the runway for American design legend Marc Jacobs in a triumphant finale to New York Fashion Week following collections from Ralph Lauren and...
LOS ANGELES, UNITED STATES, Frankie Taggart- Diversity is the big word on everyone's lips again as Hollywood's movers and shakers gather for the Oscars, with an overwhelming bias toward white...