Bitcoin hacker currency bursts into mainstream
With $600 stuffed in one pocket and a smartphone tucked in the other, Patricio Fink recently struck the kind of deal that's feeding the rise of a new ...
Nominees announced for English translation prize
A novel by Romanian-born German Nobel laureate Herta Muller is among the finalists for prizes given for best English language translations of fiction ...
Riccardo Muti, Chicago Symphony to celebrate Verdi
Italian conductor Riccardo Muti will launch the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's planned celebration of the bicentennial of composer Giuseppe Verdi's ...
Louvre workers walk off job over pickpockets
The Louvre was closed Wednesday after its workers walked off their jobs to protest what is said to be a rising problem of pickpockets haunting the ...
UK National Theatre chief to step down in 2015
The widely praised chief of Britain's National Theatre says he will leave his post in two years. Nicholas Hytner plans to step down from one of the ...
EBU gets TV rights for WCup, Euro qualifying
UEFA's marketing partner has sold television rights to qualifying matches for the 2018 World Cup and 2016 European Championship to the European ...
Paris exhibit asks: Was there an Italian Monet?
Years before Impressionism — the influential Paris-based art movement — began, a similar style of painting capturing colorful impressions of light may ...
Lendl to display collection of art nouveau posters
Tennis star Ivan Lendl is displaying his full collection of posters by the Czech art nouveau painter Alphonse Mucha for the first time. The eight-time ...
Taiwan TV shows queen in reports on Thatcher death
A Taiwanese news station has apologized for airing footage of Queen Elizabeth II while reporting the death of former British Prime Minister Margaret ...
Fans get early look at 'Elysium' footage
The year is 2154, and Earth belongs to the poor. The wealthiest citizens live on "Elysium," an idyllic, disease-free utopia they built in space.
Thatcher had profound effect on popular culture
Margaret Thatcher was not just a political titan, she was a cultural icon — skewered by comedians, transformed into a puppet and played to ...
Thatcher had troubled relations with UK sports
Margaret Thatcher barely concealed her distaste for sports while serving as prime minister of Britain. Instead, she tried to use the athletic arena ...
Rushdie remembers Thatcher's 'great life'
Salman Rushdie says he remembers Margaret Thatcher with the same complicated feelings he had for her while she was alive: disagreement with her ...
Thatcher biography due out after funeral
The first volume of Margaret Thatcher's authorized biography will be published immediately after her funeral. Allen Lane, which is part of Penguin ...
Koolhaas unites architecture, design and fashion
Shedding his "puritanical" attitude against architects designing objects, Rem Koolhaas has shifted scale to create 11 pieces of furniture for the U.S.
Spanish film star Sara Montiel dies at age 85
Sara Montiel, a famed, sultry-voiced Spanish actress who became the first to also achieve Hollywood stardom, died Monday. She was 85. Her biographer, ...
Tributes pour in for Spanish filmmaker Bigas Luna
Spaniard Josep Joan Bigas Luna was lauded as a brilliant and "truly special" filmmaker a day after his death, with some of the highest praise coming ...
Irish character actor Milo O'Shea, 87, dies in NYC
The Irish actor Milo O'Shea, whose many roles on stage and screen included a friar in Franco Zeffirelli's "Romeo and Juliet," an evil scientist in ...
Matisse in Norwegian museum was once Nazi loot
The family of a prominent Parisian art dealer is demanding that a Norwegian museum return an Henri Matisse painting seized by Nazis under the ...
Spanish film director Bigas Luna dies, aged 67
Spanish film director Josep Joan Bigas Luna, who discovered actors Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem and whose 1992 movie "Jamon, Jamon" launched their ...
Estonia operetta lyricizes economic austerity
Tired of grumbling about economic austerity? Maybe it's time to sing about it. So say two Americans living in Estonia. Inspired by a lively social ...
Cuba culture official demoted after NY Times op-ed
A leading Cuban cultural official said Friday that he has been demoted nearly two weeks after he published an opinion piece in the New York Times that ...
Mark Knopfler scraps Russian gigs over 'crackdown'
Guitarist Mark Knopfler canceled two shows in Russia in protest over what he says is a crackdown on human rights groups in the country, as President ...
Ballet star Sergei Polunin walks out of 2nd show
One of the ballet world's brightest but most volatile stars has vanished, again. Sergei Polunin had been due to star in a dance piece based on Billy ...
EU clears Random House, Penguin merger deal
The European Union's antitrust watchdog on Friday gave its green light to the proposed merger of Penguin and Random House that will create the world's ...
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