The offending scene concerns an old, bearded image of God, of whom all depictions are forbidden by Islam.
"I am sorry for all the people who were disturbed by this sequence, which also shocked...
SAN FRANCISCO- The official cause of death for beloved Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was made public on Monday as a private memorial was planned at the company's Silicon Valley headquarters for...
SIRTE, Rory Mulholland and Herve Bar- Libya's new regime forces were battling block by block towards the centre of Sirte on Monday, eyeing the symbolic prize of finally capturing Moamer Kadhafi's...
CAIRO, Samer al-Atrush and Ines Bel Aiba- Twenty-three people, mostly Coptic Christians, died in clashes Sunday between Coptic Christians and Egyptian security forces, the health ministry said,...
BERLIN, Kate Millar- Authors once just had to deal with a publisher but are now being forced to embrace the digital age and negotiate the rights to their works for TV, films and ebooks.
Organisers...
BENGHAZI, Jay Deshmukh- The day after the Libyan revolution erupted in February, Benghazi's posh Al-Feel multiplex cinema closed its doors, its screens likely to remain dark until the war ends and...
Judges from Guinness World Records came to France to measure him and confirmed his suspicion that he had record-breaking feet -- his left measuring one foot three inches (38.1 cm) in length and his...
SANTO DOMINGO- Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas started a Latin America tour in the Dominican Republic on Friday to harness support for his government's bid to win a place at the United Nations....
STOCKHOLM, Pia Ohlin- Swedish poet Tomas Transtroemer, whose simple but mystical imagery addresses themes of nature, history and death, won the 2011 Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday....
VIENNA- Philippe Jordan, the youthful conductor of the Paris Opera, will also head the Vienna Symphony Orchestra from the 2014-2015 season, officials said on Wednesday.
Jordan, a 36-year-old...
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