ATHENS, GREECE- Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei on Friday announced plans to create a memorial on the Greek island of Lesbos to the plight of refugees, many of whom have lost their lives trying to...

PARIS, FRANCE- An academic and a French MP have announced plans to publish online Friday the famous diary of Anne Frank, with the organisation holding publication rights threatening legal action....

BEIJING, CHINA- A new Chinese translation of Indian Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore's poetry collection "Stray Birds" has been pulled from bookshop shelves, the publisher said, after controversy...

WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES- The American artist Ellsworth Kelly, known for hard-edge paintings, simplicity of form in sculpture and brightly colored abstract designs in his printmaking, has died at...

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, Dario Thuburn- Waving banknotes in the air, hundreds of shoppers braved the rain for an open-air Christmas Eve meat auction at London's Smithfield Market on Thursday for what...

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM- A choir of doctors and nurses beat Justin Bieber to the Christmas number one spot in Britain's pop music chart Friday after the heartthrob urged his fans to buy their song....

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES- Soft rock giants Chicago will reunite after three decades with singer Peter Cetera for their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, a founding member says. Robert Lamm, the...

BERLIN, GEMANY, Deborah Cole- Refugees will be at the heart of the next Berlin film festival, with hundreds of free tickets for asylum seekers and new movies spotlighting Europe's historic influx,...

OBERNDORF BEI SALZBURG, AUSTRIA, Simon Sturdee- When "Silent Night" was born in Austria almost 200 years ago, those present had little idea that the Christmas carol would one day be sung the world...