CANNES- The popular pre-school TV show featuring a cast of talking steam trains headed by tank engine Thomas celebrates 65 years in the life of the character with a new engine from Japan and a new...

LONDON, Sam Reeves - Malcolm McLaren, the punk rock mogul best known as the manager of the Sex Pistols, died Thursday after a struggle with cancer, his girlfriend Young Kim said. He was 64....

SHIKHAR SHINGNAPUR, Indranil Mukherjee - Suhas stood barefoot among a maze of wires, as a cone of grainy light from his film projector shone over the few spectators gathered in the tent. "The...

KARACHI- Pakistan began a new fashion week with an opulent opening ceremony in Karachi on Monday, hours after Islamist militants killed 46 people in bomb attacks in the northwest. Participants...

CAIRO- Egyptian film-makers who were to sit on the jury of a French film festival in Cairo are boycotting the event because of an Israeli entry, saying they refuse to normalise relations with the...

BEIRUT, Natacha Yazbeck- From her rank cell in a notorious women's prison in Lebanon, Najwa never dreamed she would one day embroider a bag fit for a queen. And then she saw her handiwork in Vogue...

JERUSALEM- An Israeli lawmaker is hoping to butter up voters and pass a law that would limit outrageous popcorn prices at the movies. Carmel Shama, from the governing Likud party, plans to bring...

PARIS, Sarah Shard- Many young women think of Yves Saint Laurent as a brand, they know nothing about him, says Farid Chenoune, one of the curators of the first major retrospective in 27 years devoted...

HOLLYWOOD, Rob Woollard- Iraq war drama "The Hurt Locker" blew away box office king "Avatar" to take six Oscars, with Kathryn Bigelow becoming the first woman to win the best director award on a...