Thousands of mourners are attending the funeral of renowned author Chinua Achebe in his Nigerian home town of Ogidi in Anambra…
A guitar played by John Lennon and George Harrison of the Beatles has sold for $408,000 at auction. The custom-made…
Residents at a luxury TriBeCa apartment block in Lower Manhattan are very furious after discovering that artist Arne Svenson, who…
Earlier this year Vladimir Tretchikoff's portrait Chinese Girl, often referred to as The Green Lady, was sold for almost £1…
Guitarist and ethnomusicologist Bob Brozman was found dead aged 59 at his home in Ben Lomond, Santa Cruz County, CA,…
Harper Lee, author of To Kill A Mockingbird, has sued literary agent Samuel Pinkus, who she says tricked her into…
A century-old US five-cent coin, once branded a fake, has been sold for $3.17 million at a Heritage auction in…
Author Iain Banks has said the messages of support he has received from fans since announcing he has terminal cancer…
The minaret of Umayyad Mosque, one of Syria's most famous, has been destroyed during clashes in the northern city of…
Storm Thorgerson, who designed Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon album cover, has died aged 69, the band's…