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'Rust' shooting looms over historic Western movie...
Decades before Alec Baldwin and the "Rust" shooting, the dusty acres of Bonanza Creek Ranch helped put New Mexico on the map as a...
Napoleon's pistols sold in France for 1.7 mn euros...
Two pistols that Napoleon Bonaparte once intended to use to kill himself were sold in France on Sunday for 1.69 million euros ($1....
Alec Baldwin set for legal showdown over 'Rust' sh...
A long-awaited showdown will take place this week in a historic Wild West frontier town, with both sides seeking justice for a fat...
British documentary wins top prize at Czech festiv...
"A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things" by Northern Irish director Mark Cousins won the top Crystal Globe award at the Karlovy Vary fi...
Paris's Moulin Rouge inaugurates new windmill sail...
Paris's Moulin Rouge cabaret club, whose landmark windmill sails fell down in April, inaugurated its new blades on Friday, nearly...
'I was feeling terrible' in debate, Biden says in...
Joe Biden vowed Friday to stay in the White House race and blamed his dismal debate performance on "feeling terrible" due to a col...
Wimbledon launches online monitoring service to pr...
Wimbledon chiefs said Friday they had launched a social media monitoring service to protect players from online abuse.
Biden seeks campaign reset with high-risk TV inter...
US President Joe Biden is hoping a televised interview on Friday will steady his imperiled reelection bid -- but a repeat of his d...
'Fashion power': Zarny, the Myanmar refugee turned...
Having fled Myanmar for Japan with his parents as a child, Shibuya Zarny began his fashion career as a model in Tokyo and went on...
Paris Olympics director defends David Guetta snub...
How many albums you have sold is not the basis for getting a slot at the Paris Olympics opening ceremony.
Hong Kong celebrates design guru who left his mark
Some of Hong Kong's most recognisable designs, from the logo of the territory's biggest bank to the badge of its ubiquitous jockey...
Making an impression: Swiss collection shown in a...
The Langmatt's prestigious collection of Impressionist masterpieces is being seen in a new light, literally, after leaving the mus...
France film director Jacquot charged with raping t...
A magistrate Wednesday charged prominent film director Benoit Jacquot for allegedly raping actors Julia Roy and Isild Le Besco, pr...
Threads hits 175 mn users on first anniversary
Threads, Meta's alternative to X (formerly Twitter), has hit 175 million monthly users a year after its out-of-the-blue launch.
French court says Netflix shark hit can keep strea...
A French court Wednesday ruled that a shark horror film titled "Under Paris" could continue to stream on Netflix despite a copyrig...
World's oldest artwork discovered in Indonesian ca...
It may not look like much -- just a flaking image of three people around a big red pig.
'Chinatown' writer Robert Towne dies aged 89
Robert Towne, the Hollywood writer whose "Chinatown" script is often described as the greatest screenplay ever written, has died a...
Brazil creates King Pele Day in honor of football...
Brazil football legend Pele will be honored in his home country by a commemorative day baptised "King Pele Day", reported Tuesday'...
Athens Acropolis introduces private visits for 5,0...
The Acropolis in Athens, one of the world's most visited ancient monuments, has begun offering private visits for 5,000 euros ($5,...
Pompidou museum's New York branch suspended
France's Pompidou Centre, one of the world's leading modern art museums, confirmed on Tuesday that its plan to open a satellite br...
Don't camp out, Amsterdam tells Swifties
Fans of Taylor Swift have been warned not to camp out overnight to secure the best spots when the US pop sensation rolls into Amst...
Snap poll: Photographer takes artistic look at UK...
Her brief: criss-cross the United Kingdom and make a politically and geographically-balanced piece of art about its general electi...
'Google is broken': How an algorithm tweak cost li...
Google made major changes to its search algorithm and spam filters earlier this year to get rid of low-quality content -- but the...
Slow art: the master illuminator of Tehran
Iranian artist Mohammad Hossein Aghamiri sometimes labours for six months on a single design, very carefully -- he knows a single...
Albania mourns death of Kadare, whose novels defie...
Albanians will mark two days of national mourning for Ismail Kadare, their "greatest cultural monument", after the acclaimed novel...
France detains two filmmakers over sex abuse claim...
French authorities detained Monday two leading arthouse film directors, Benoit Jacquot and Jacques Doillon, for questioning over a...
US top court sidesteps ruling on contentious socia...
The US Supreme Court on Monday ordered lower courts to review a pair of Republican-backed laws that imposed restrictions on social...
France detains two filmmakers over sexual abuse al...
French authorities Monday detained leading arthouse film directors Benoit Jacquot and Jacques Doillon for questioning over accusat...
Albania's Kadare, whose novels defied dictatorship...
Acclaimed Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare -- an eternal bridesmaid for a Nobel literature prize -- died Monday of a heart attack a...
Ismail Kadare: A bright light in Albania's darkest...
Novelist Ismail Kadare -- who has died aged 88 -- used his pen as a stealth weapon to survive Albania's paranoid communist dictat...
'Inside Out 2' tops N. American box office for thi...
"Inside Out 2" kept its number one spot at North American box offices for the third weekend in a row, industry watcher Exhibitor R...
German fans dance to the tune of the 'saxophone gu...
While Germany have sometimes struggled on the pitch at Euro 2024, a previously unknown saxophonist in a retro shirt has had more s...