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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...
Five IS bombs found hidden in iconic Iraq mosque:...
A United Nations agency said it has discovered five bombs in a wall of Mosul's iconic Al-Nuri mosque, planted years ago by Islamic...
Dua Lipa holds court as UK's Glastonbury Festival...
British-Albanian pop sensation Dua Lipa was to headline the first night of the Glastonbury festival on Friday which has again dra...
Sigourney Weaver to get Venice Film Festival honou...
Actor Sigourney Weaver, best known for her iconic role in Alien, will receive a lifetime achievement award at this year's Venice F...
Mosaics by priest accused of abuse must go, women...
The Catholic Church is under pressure to remove hundreds of mosaics by a priest who is a world-renowned artist following a request...
Hong Kong museum celebrates life of architect I.M....
More than 30 years after I.M. Pei reshaped Hong Kong's skyline with a jagged tower of steel and glass, the Chinese-American archit...
Julian Assange 'rediscovering life' as free man in...
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is "rediscovering life" as he tastes freedom in Australia after a five-year stretch in a London h...
Julian Assange 'marvelling' at freedom in Australi...
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is "marvelling at the horizon" as he tastes freedom in Australia after a five-year stretch in a L...
Some like it not: LA bars demolition of Marilyn Mo...
The Los Angeles home where Marilyn Monroe died was declared a historic landmark on Wednesday, thwarting plans by its current owner...
Original 'Harry Potter' cover art sells for $1.9 m...
The original watercolor illustration for the first edition of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" -- the book that introduc...
US reporter Evan Gershkovich on trial in Russia
US reporter Evan Gershkovich's closed-door espionage trial in Russia began Wednesday, 15 months after he was arrested on charges t...
Designer vestments and furniture for Paris's rebor...
Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris is getting a modern makeover for its reopening in December, with designer furniture and colourful pr...
US reporter Evan Gershkovich's closed-door trial b...
US journalist Evan Gershkovich's closed-door trial for espionage began in Russia on Wednesday, 15 months after his shock arrest on...
The 500-plus artisans working on Olympics costumes
An army of artisans is racing to complete thousands of costumes for the Paris Olympics ceremonies that the designers say will each...
WikiLeaks founder Assange pleads guilty in US deal...
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange pleaded guilty in a US court in Saipan on Wednesday, AFP reporters said, in a plea bargain that w...