London - French economist Thomas Piketty, best-selling author on inequality, will teach at the London School of Economics as a professor at its...
London - French economist Thomas Piketty, best-selling author on inequality, will teach at the London School of Economics as a professor at its...
Washington - Blues legend B.B. King, known for his soaring guitar licks and as an inspiration for generations of musicians over a decades-long...
Cannes, France - Oscar-winning US-Israeli actress Natalie Portman will on Friday unveil her directorial debut at the Cannes Film Festival with a movie...
Bangkok - In a cramped Bangkok room filled with statues of deities and plumes of incense smoke, a master is at work. With...
Paris - The epitome of Gallic beauty, French film star Catherine Deneuve -- probably clouded in a haze of cigarette smoke -- once...
New York - A guitar played by George Harrison in the Beatles' early days, previously on display in a British museum, goes on...
New York - Woody Allen premieres his latest film at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday, finding comfort and adulation in Europe away...
Sydney - Johnny Depp's pet dogs Pistol and Boo were expected to fly out of Australia on Friday and escape threats to put...
Moscow - Russia's AIDS epidemic is worsening and at least two million people are likely to be infected with HIV in about five...
Cannes, France - The Cannes Film Festival slipped into high gear on its second day Thursday by screening the new "Mad Max" blockbuster...
Cannes, France - Natalie Portman will star in a biopic of former US first lady Jackie Kennedy that covers the four days after...
Washington - Facebook moved deeper into the media business Wednesday by crafting a deal with news publishers which allows the social network to...
London - An architects' collective that helped transform a rundown part of Liverpool has been shortlisted for Britain's prestigious Turner Prize, along with...
Paris - For filmmakers the world over, winning the Palme d'Or at Cannes is a unique sign of international recognition for a movie....
Tehran - It is Iran's most notorious jail, renowned for housing political activists, but if Tehran's mayor has his way Evin Prison will...
Paris - Drug-resistant typhoid has become an invisible epidemic in Africa, scientists said on Monday after an unprecedented probe into the disease. Writing...
Tehran - Drivers and millions of commuters used to spending hours in Tehran traffic jams have at least had something nicer to look...
Los Angeles - Rising star Oscar Isaac is already well known from movies like the Coen brothers' quirky hit "Inside Llewyn Davis" --...
