James Bond's 50th anniversary celebrated at Oscars
Oscar won't be the only chiseled man in the spotlight at the 85th Academy Awards. Producers say the show will feature a celebration of Bond, James ...
France's Bardot threatens exile over elephants
Sex symbol-turned-animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot is threatening to join actor Gerard Depardieu in Russian exile unless France halts the ...
Ivory Coast New Year's death toll rises to 64
Ivory Coast's health minister says the death toll in the New Year's stampede has risen to 64. Health Minister Raymonde Goudou, speaking to the press, ...
Chefs offer their take on Jerusalem
Two London-based chefs with roots in Jerusalem one day. The next, poster boys for peace. Such has been the reaction to "Jerusalem," a bestselling ...
Depardieu, in tax fight, gets Russian citizenship
The Kremlin has cast Gerard Depardieu in one of the most surprising roles of his life — as a new Russian citizen. The announcement Thursday that ...
Brotherhood official urges Egypt's Jews to return
A leading Muslim Brotherhood member and adviser to Islamist President Mohammed Morsi created a stir in Egypt when he called on Egyptian Jews in Israel ...
2 Israeli documentaries shortlisted for Oscar
The Mideast conflict has done little to help Israel's image in the world, but the way local filmmakers deal critically with the Israel-Palestinian ...
Romanian film director Sergiu Nicolaescu dies
Sergiu Nicolaescu, a prolific and popular Romanian director known for his historical epics who also served as a Senator, died Thursday. He was 82.
Ugandan court dismisses case against pro-gay play
A Ugandan court has dismissed a case against a British national arrested for staging a pro-gay play. Frank Mugisha, a gay rights activists, said ...
Hilary Mantel wins best-novel Costa Book Award
British writer and two-time Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel has been named novelist of the year at Britain's Costa Book Awards for "Bring Up the ...
Royal Mail to issue 'Doctor Who' stamps
The many characters in the science-fiction show "Doctor Who" will be zooming through time and space on the edge of letters in 2013. Britain's Royal ...
Activist asks public to visit China Nobel wife
Chinese activists urged the public on Wednesday to visit dissident Liu Xiaobo's wife to highlight that she has been under house arrest since her ...
Stampede after fireworks kills 61 in Ivory Coast
A crowd stampeded after leaving a New Year's fireworks show early Tuesday in Ivory Coast's main city, killing 61 people — many of them children and ...
Egypt prosecutors investigate popular TV comedian
Egyptian prosecutors launched an investigation on Tuesday against a popular television satirist for allegedly insulting the president in the latest ...
Christopher Martin-Jenkins dies after cancer fight
Christopher Martin-Jenkins, an English cricket broadcaster and writer who was a former president of the MCC, has died. He was 67. The official website ...
US, Europe hope the new year brings better times
From the glittering New Year's ball dropping in New York's Times Square to joyous fireworks in London and cheers in a once-isolated Asian country, the ...
Lampard rescues Chelsea in 2-1 win at Everton
Frank Lampard proved his enduring worth to Chelsea by scoring twice in a hard-fought 2-1 win at Everton on Sunday, keeping his team on the fringes of ...
McCartney, 'God particle' scientist get honors
Stella McCartney, who designed the uniforms worn by Britain's record-smashing Olympic team, and Scottish physicist Peter Higgs, who gave his name to ...
Whale of a tale: Pakistani fishmonger now pop star
Muhammad Shahid Nazir is a testament to the age-old adage that if you give a man a fish, he will eat for a day, but if you teach a man to sing about ...
Indian gang-rape victim dies in Singapore hospital
Shocked Indians on Saturday were mourning the death of a woman who was gang-raped and beaten on a bus in New Delhi nearly two weeks ago in an ordeal ...
Wiggins, Ainslie knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
Cyclist Bradley Wiggins and sailor Ben Ainslie were honored with knighthoods by Queen Elizabeth II in her New Year list after their gold medal-winning ...
UK's Pearson invests in Barnes & Noble's Nook
Pearson, the U.K. publisher and education company, is to take a 5 percent stake in Barnes & Noble's NOOK e-reader as technology companies seek new ...
Composer/pianist Richard Rodney Bennett dies
British composer, pianist and arranger Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, who was nominated three times for Academy Awards, has died in New York City at age ...
Documents show Jimmy Savile's access to Thatcher
Classified documents being made public Friday detail how now-disgraced BBC entertainer Jimmy Savile was comfortable at the heart of the British ...
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