Lifestyle

Movies showing at 2013 Berlin Film Festival
A list of the movies being shown in the official program at this year's Berlin International Film Festival, which runs Feb. 7-17. In competition: ...
Holocaust items put on display for remembrance day
When Stella Knobel's family fled World War II Poland in 1939, the only thing the 7-year-old girl could take with her was her teddy bear. For the next ...
AP Interview: Haiti eyes tourism, other businesses
Haiti's prime minister says his country is hoping to attract high-end tourists and multinational investors — instead of constant aid handouts — so it ...
Assange: WikiLeaks film script leaked to WikiLeaks
If you're making a movie about WikiLeaks, this is the kind of thing you probably see coming. Julian Assange says he has obtained a leaked copy of the ...
Lawyer: No proof to charge Romanians for art theft
A lawyer for three Romanians accused of stealing valuable paintings from a museum in the Netherlands insisted Friday there was insufficient evidence ...
Poland rejects draft laws for unmarried couples
Poland's lawmakers have rejected three separate draft laws that were intended to give legal rights to unmarried couples, including same-sex ones.
10 finalists named for international Booker prize
American author Marilynne Robinson, Israel's Aharon Appelfeld and China's Yan Lianke are among 10 finalists for the Man Booker International Prize for ...
Burger King drops supplier linked to horsemeat
British and Irish burger fans could face a Whopper shortage. Burger King has stopped buying beef from an Irish meat processor whose patties were found ...
Air Malta cancels Benghazi flights after warning
Air Malta says that flights between the Mediterranean island and the Libyan city of Benghazi have been canceled following what the British government ...
Pope on social networking: the virtual is real
Pope Benedict XVI put church leaders on notice Thursday, saying social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter aren't a virtual world they can ...
Dozens of flights canceled in German strikes
Dozens of flights have been cancelled after hundreds of security personnel walked off the job at Germany's Duesseldorf and Cologne airports in a ...
Sony fined in UK over PlayStation cyberattack
British regulators have fined Sony 250,000 pounds ($396,100) for failing to prevent a 2011 cyberattack on its PlayStation Network which put millions ...
Interpol: We'll recover art stolen in Dutch heist
The head of Interpol says he believes police will retrieve valuable paintings that were stolen from a museum in the Netherlands last year, including ...
Valentino shows off timeless, effortless couture
Delicacy, nature, architecture and timeless, effortless beauty. Those words describe one of the most sumptuous displays of haute couture seen this ...
Valentino, Gaultier, Saab shimmer in couture
Haute couture, fashion's most luxurious appellation, can only ever come from Paris. One thing couture week's third and final day proved, however, is ...
'Dead' girlfriend's player: 'What would you do'
Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o has admitted to a TV talk show host that he answered questions about his "dead" online girlfriend even after he ...
Jean Paul Gaultier shows off spicy couture
Did "Life of Pi" inspire Jean Paul Gaultier's latest collection? Or was it exotic Bombay dreaming that led to his quirky, theatrical, spring summer ...
Filming begins on DreamWorks' WikiLeaks movie
DreamWorks Studios says filming has begun on a movie about WikiLeaks, starring Benedict Cumberbatch (TV's "Sherlock") as the website's controversial ...
Dutch art heist detectives heading to Romania
Dutch detectives and a prosecutor will travel to Romania to investigate the possible involvement of three men in a multimillion-dollar art heist in ...
Euro 2012 final gets TV audience of 299 million
UEFA says Spain's 4-0 victory over Italy in the European Championship final attracted an official television audience of 299 million viewers worldwide
Saab plays it safe with bejeweled couture gowns
Elie Saab's couture never ventures far beyond his safe signature: fitted high-waists and long feminine gowns in powdery sumptuous silk that are always ...
Oil holds near $97 ahead of US debt ceiling vote
The price of oil was steady near four-month highs around $97 a barrel on Wednesday as markets awaited a vote in Congress which would provide a ...
Alan Parker to get BAFTA's highest honor
Alan Parker, the lauded British director whose work includes "Midnight Express," ''Fame" and "Mississippi Burning," is to receive the British Academy ...
Armani mixes classic couture with exotic panache
Only a few living designers can execute a couture show where almost every look glistens as much with classic timelessness as it does with innovation.
Bolshoi ballet names acting artistic director
The Bolshoi ballet on Tuesday named a former prima ballerina to fill in for artistic director Sergei Filin, whose face and eyes were burned in an acid ...