A McGill university graduate has captured the prestigious Canada Council for the Arts Prix de Rome in Architecture for Emerging Practitioners. The $34,000 prize has been awarded to Elizabeth Paden. ...

We remain optimistic that steel prices in the region will increase and reach their ideal level, which is somewhere around Dh2,300 to Dh2,400 per...

By Shelia Byrd Jackson, Mississippi - An 18-year-old Mississippi lesbian student says she received some unfriendly looks from classmates when she returned to school after officials cancelled the...

ST. HELIER, Channel Islands - (Business Wire) DHT Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: DHT) announced today that Board member Randee Day has been named acting Chief Executive Officer of DHT Holdings, Inc. and DHT...

Diana Ross is coming to Chicago. The legendary icon will perform at The Chicago Theatre for one night only -- on May 27, 2010. Ross will be performing her greatest hits in her "More Today Than...

As a man who has put his name to no fewer than six books that were at least in part autobiographical, Sir Alex Ferguson is no stranger to rewriting history. It is a habit he refuses to shake....

Why ban something that could bring money into our state? If we are one of only 2 states that have MMA banned, it's not like us banning it is going to stop the sport altogether. Those that participate...

(Right-click or control-click to save to your computer) Emily Rodgers has one of those haunting, unforgettable voices that radiates with a surreal beauty. On her latest...

FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2009 file photo, author John Grisham appears at Barnes & Noble Bookstore to promote his book "The Associate", in New...

Opera Mini 5 for Windows Mobile 5 and 6 , Opera software today launched Opera Mini 5 for the Android platform.With Mini 5, Opera Software has managed to make a cross-platform browser that provides an...

The Fox competition show "So You Think You Can Dance" is holding auditions on Sunday and Monday in Opryland, so if you imagine you can keep up with the amazingly acrobatic contestants of the show's...

FILE - In this April 13, 2008 file photo, Conan O'Brien appears on stage at Comedy Central's "Night of Too Many Stars" special in New York. In early March 2010, Sarah Killen had three Twitter...

Conan O'Brien, shown June 1, 2009, as the host of The Tonight Show, will launch a 33-city comedy tour on April 12. His first Canadian stop is Vancouver on April...

NEW YORK - A stage adaptation of John Grisham's first novel, "A Time to Kill," will have its world premiere next year in Washington in what is being billed as a "pre-Broadway"...

A Mississippi school decided not to host a dance after a lesbian student demanded she be able to attend with her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo. The Mississippi school district's policy requires that...

FILE - This June 22, 2001, file photo shows Pro Football Hall of Famer and former television actor Merlin Olsen speaking in Urbandale, Iowa. Olsen died Wednesday night, March 10, 2010, at a Los...

Merlin Olsen, a Pro Football Hall of Famer and former television actor, has died at the age of 69 after a battle with cancer. The six-foot-five defensive tackle was part of the "Fearsome Foursome"...

This is a July 2005 file photo of U.S. model and television personality Anna Nicole Smith poses for the media during the Live 8 concert at the Philadelphia Art Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....

LONDON — The British rock band Pink Floyd won its court battle with EMI on Thursday, with a ruling that prevents the record company from selling single downloads on the Internet from the...

(Reuters) - Belgian Tom Boonen burned off his rivals in a sprint finish to claim the second stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico Thursday ahead of German Paul Martens and Italian Daniele...

By Becky Yerak | The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is preparing to put about a half a dozen struggling Chicago-area banks out for bid to healthy institutions that might want buy their deposits and...

Some 23,000 people have marched in Athens to protest cuts in civil servants' income, tax hikes, a pension freeze and plans to raise the retirement age. The 24-hour strike by Greek public and private...

John Malkovich as a resurrected Austrian serial killer on stage with a baroque orchestra and two sopranos singing arias about murder and abandonment, but it will, the Barbican's artistic director...

Late Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith's life story is being made into an opera. The troubled model, who died aged 39 in 2007 after an accidental overdose of prescription drugs, will be the focus...

FILE - In this April 13, 2008 file photo, Conan O'Brien appears on stage at Comedy Central's "Night of Too Many Stars" special in New York. In early March 2010, Sarah Killen had three Twitter...

By BRETT ZONGKERASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER WASHINGTON -- Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and Elizabeth Dole are joining 250 veterans at the World War II memorial in Washington to honor their service. ...

ABC News has admitted it used visuals in a report on acceleration problems with Toyota vehicles that didn't demonstrate what was actually happening. The network's handling of a Feb....

Fred Ebb , which opened Wednesday night at the Vineyard Theater. This solemn, virtuous enterprise is called “The Scottsboro Boys,” and it wears its halo like a barbed-wire...

MENDE (Reuters) - Spaniard Alberto Contador won the 173.5-km fourth stage of the Paris-Nice race from Maurs to Mende to take the overall lead on Thursday. Alejandro Valverde was second and Samuel...

US studio giant Disney is making its first foray into south Indian cinema as part of plans to capture the country's largest movie market, the company announced...

From his famous black suit to his ‘trapeze’ dresses, a new exhibition in Paris’s Petit Palais looks back at 40 years of fashion by French iconic designer Yves...

By MIN LEEAP ENTERTAINMENT WRITER HONG KONG -- Encouraged by the reception of its Hindi animated movie, Disney is shooting a new adventure film in the southern Indian dialect of Telugu as it...

By JILL LAWLESSASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER LONDON -- In a victory for the concept album, Britain's High Court on Thursday ordered record company EMI Group Ltd. to stop selling downloads of Pink Floyd...

Opera has released a beta version of its Mini 5 web browser for Android-based smartphones, the company said. Just like the versions of the beta for other phones, Opera Mini 5 for Android beta...

beta version of Opera Mini 5 for Android . Opera's Mini and more feature-rich Mobile browsers are widely used in the mobile phone market, but the company faces a challenge in new smartphones using...

SINGAPORE — On a large black cloth, rows of traditional Indonesian theater Wayang masks with their bottoms half severed stand upward, looking inward toward their cut jaws that seem to emit...

LONDON — The world premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s “Anna Nicole” will be presented by the Royal Opera next Feb. 17, starring Dutch soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek as the late model and...

El Greco's chromatic genius ... A monk admires a painting in Athens' National Gallery. Photograph: Lefteris Pitarakis/AP They called it "the manner". The manner was precious, artificial,...