VIENNA, AUSTRIA- A minute's silence released by an Austrian artist to protest against the treatment of refugees in Europe topped the country's iTunes chart Thursday even though the track was yet to...

MUMBAI, INDIA, Udita Jhunjhunwala- After decades of male domination, Bollywood has seen a recent wave of hit movies starring Indian women in tough, smart lead roles, suggesting the gender tide may...

WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES- Pioneering US civil rights activist Julian Bond, who once chaired the board of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), has died. He was 75....

LOS ANGELES, UNITED STATES- The biopic "Straight Outta Compton," about the pioneering rap group N.W.A. topped the North American box office in its debut weekend, easily beating out rivals, according...

HERRNBAUMGARTEN, AUSTRIA, Nina Lamparski- From a transparent suitcase for nudists to automatic nose pickers -- Austria's museum of nonsense and its vast collection of silly yet brilliant inventions...

MOSCOW, RUSSIA, Anna Malpas- Sculptures by a renowned Soviet artist on show in central Moscow were smashed after being denounced by Orthodox activists as "blasphemous" "Delusional people came to the...

PARIS, FRANCE- Elton John's lawyer announced Friday that he was pursuing three French media outlets for publishing what he called "unfounded rumours" about the British pop star's health and that of...

MADRID, SPAIN, Roland Lloyd Parry- Spanish writer Andres Trapiello is used to painstaking research at his desk, and he needed all his scholarly patience for his latest work: adapting Spain's most...

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM- Hundreds of staff at London's National Gallery on Tuesday began an indefinite strike, the latest in a series of walkouts to protest at the outsourcing of some services to the...