Soweto, South Africa: US television celebrity Oprah Winfrey on Thursday paid emotional tribute to Nelson Mandela as she prepared to host a star-studded...
Soweto, South Africa: US television celebrity Oprah Winfrey on Thursday paid emotional tribute to Nelson Mandela as she prepared to host a star-studded...
Los Angeles: It's a boy! It's a girl! But for an off-duty border patrol officer in the US state of Arizona, it ended...
Paris, A piece of the original spiral staircase from the Eiffel Tower, Paris's most famous attraction, was sold for 169,000 euro (US$190,000). The...
NEW YORK: Misinformation, as opposed to disinformation, was chosen Monday as Dictionary.com's word of the year on the tattered coattails of "toxic," picked...
LONDON: X-ray images of people and everyday objects have gone on display in a new gallery in Britain, where visitors can watch photographer...
Gaza City: The only grand piano in the Gaza Strip was played in public for the first time in a decade, following a...
ROME: So versatile were Leonardo da Vinci's talents in art and science and so boundless his visionary imagination, he is known to the...
NEW DELHI: The young American, paddling his kayak toward a remote Indian island whose people have resisted the outside world for thousands of...
Vatican City: Pope Francis on Friday revealed the organising team for a special meeting on the protection of children next February, in response...
BANGKOK: The creator of a low-cost house made of bamboo to tackle the chronic shortage of affordable housing in the Philippine capital has...
Bangkok: Superstition and looking for luck are a part of daily life in Thailand. In one temple in central Bangkok, visitors hope to...
PARIS: A portrait of Michael Jackson as King Philip II of Spain and an Andy Warhol print are among artworks on display at...
Utrecht: When a musical legend dies, a tribute can often be heard ringing out from the most unexpected of places: the tallest church...
Mosul: For centuries, it was a magnet for artists across the region and churned out Iraq's best musicians -- but recent years saw...
BOSTON: The latest crop of American Rhodes scholars has more women than any other single class. The Rhodes Trust announced Sunday the 32...
Marilyn Monroe's Golden Globe Award sold for a record-breaking $250,000 at Julien's Auctions in Beverly Hills, California, auction officials said late Saturday. The...
NEW YORK: The Statue of Liberty's original torch, which has been housed in the base of the statue since a replica replaced it...
Madrid: Uruguayan poet Ida Vitale, 95, on Thursday won the Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious literary award in the Spanish-speaking world, Spain's Culture...
