LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM- An assault rifle displayed at London's Imperial War Museum has been removed after it emerged that it was linked to a terror attack in Northern Ireland in 1992, the police...
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM- Scottish-born author Ali Smith won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction on Wednesday, netting a long-sought victory after missing out on a string of prestigious prizes this...
PARIS, FRANCE- A big Banksy artwork spraypainted on the side of a truck has sold in Paris for 625,400 euros ($690,000), an auction house said Tuesday. The 10-metre (33-foot) wide painting, made in...
LOS ANGELES, UNITED STATES- Clint Eastwood is to direct a film about Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, the pilot hailed as a hero for ditching his plane on the Hudson in 2009, the studio behind...
RABAT, MOROCCO- Morocco's Mawazine festival opened over the weekend to record crowds but faced some controversy, with 300,000 fans flocking to see star attractions such as Jennifer Lopez and Pharrell...
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES, Jennie Matthew- He is a fantasy for millions of women across the planet. And now Christian Grey, enigmatic hero of best-selling erotic novels "Fifty Shades of Grey," is...
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM- Twenty-year-old South Korean violinist Ji Young Lim has won Belgium's prestigious Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition. Ji's interpretation of Brahms's violin concerto...
ISTANBUL, TURKEY- Hundreds of thousands of people on Saturday turned out in Istanbul to mark the 562nd anniversary of the Ottoman conquest of the city. The huge crowds gathered for a mass ceremony on...
LOS ANGELES, UNITED STATES- Neverland, the sprawling California ranch that was once the location of "King of Pop" Michael Jackson's mind-boggling amusement park, is up for sale for $100 million,...
SANTIAGO, CHILE- Family of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda said Thursday forensic experts have found evidence of a massive bacterial infection in his remains, increasing their suspicion that he was...