TUNIS, TUNISIA- Moroccan director Mohammed Mouftakir's "L'Orchestre des Aveugles" (The Blind Orchestra) took the Tanit d'Or Saturday at the Carthage Film Festival, blighted earlier in the week by a...
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM- An expert in "The Adventures of Tintin" comic book series has been named as Britain's first ever professor of "graphic fiction and comic art". Benoit Peeters, 59, a French...
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM- British singer Adele is to go on tour in Europe next year, her first live dates in five years, she announced Thursday. The "Hello" star, whose smash hit album "25" was...
LOS ANGELES, UNITED STATES- "Carol," the story of a 1950s housewife who falls for a store clerk, led the pack of independent movies tipped for Oscars glory as the Spirit Awards nominations were...
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES, Shaun Tandon- In an era when many classical musicians despair for their art's future, the heroic brass opening of "Star Wars" is one of the most instantly recognized melodies...
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM- Tickets to Britain's Queen Elizabeth II's 90th birthday celebrations sold out within hours on Tuesday as Buckingham Palace promised four days of pageantry "fit for the queen"...
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES, Shaun Tandon- Ever since John F. Kennedy died from an assassin's bullet, the indelible image has been the silent Zapruder film of the president's doomed motorcade. But an...
TEHRAN, IRAN, Arthur MacMillan- Some of the world's most expensive and rarely seen modern art, including works by the Americans Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol, went on display Saturday in a major...
TUNIS, TUNISIA- The 26th Carthage Film Festival in Tunisia, a showcase for Arab and African cinematographers, opened amid heavy security Saturday in a country rocked this year by deadly jihadist...
MADRID, SPAIN, Michaela Cancela-Kieffer / Linh-Lan Dao- Leonor remembers the long corridor of the Spanish maternity ward where she saw her newborn daughter disappear in 1964, taken away by a nurse,...