SYDNEY (dpa) - Aboriginal singer Jessica Mauboy has been chosen to represent Australia at the Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon, Portugal next May. Australia has been an official competitor in the...
CAIRO (dpa)- A major Saudi investment fund will create an entertainment subsidiary with a capital of 10 billion riyals (2.7 billion dollars), as the conservative kingdom seeks to diversify its...
WASHINGTON (dpa) - Predicting who will take home gold at an awards show is always a bit of a fool's errand, but there was one winner at the Emmys no one saw coming: Washington DC's public school...
VENICE, ITALY (dpa)- The 74th Venice International Film Festival has opened with a premiere screening of Alexander Payne's "Downsizing" at the gala in the Sala Grande theatre. The satirical film's...
LOS ANGELES, UNITED STATES- Big-budget World War II epic "Dunkirk" stormed to the top of the North American box office in its opening weekend on the strength of stellar reviews and a sterling big...
LOS ANGELES, UNITED STATES- HBO's sci-fi western "Westworld" and NBC's comedy sketch show "Saturday Night Live" led the field for television's prestigious Primetime Emmy awards Thursday, with 22...
PARIS, FRANCE- The cult Paris concept store Colette -- a regular haunt of Hollywood stars as well as fashionistas -- will close its doors in December, its owners said Wednesday. "All good things come...
YANGON, MYANMAR, Caroline Henshaw- With Myanmar emerging as a manufacturing hub for mass-produced clothes, a crop of young designers are using home-grown fashion to preserve the country's sartorial...
PARIS, FRANCE, Fiachra Gibbons- Top fashion designers set out Sunday to prove the saying that a stylish woman can even look good in a bin bag. Belgian husband and wife team Filip Arickx and An...
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, Maureen Cofflard- After years of rejection letters, British author J.K. Rowling finally published the first volume of the Harry Potter saga 20 years ago, on June 26, 1997....
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