Bolshoi Ballet soloist Pavel Dmitrichenko has been detained by police, suspected of ordering an acid attack on artistic director Sergei…
Russian police in Moscow have brought in for questioning a suspect in the acid attack on the Bolshoi Ballet's artistic…
Italian composer Armando Trovajoli, who wrote the scores for around 300 films, has died aged 95. During a long career…
Renowned American classical pianist Van Cliburn has died aged 78. Van Cliburn died at his home in Fort Worth, Texas…
More than 50 unpublished poems by Rudyard Kipling have been discovered by a US scholar. Thomas Pinney found the manuscripts…
Writer Stephane Hessel, the former French Resistance fighter whose 2010 manifesto Time for Outrage inspired social protesters, has died at…
Cleotha Staples, a member of the chart-topping gospel group The Staple Singers, has died at the age of 78. The…
American blues guitarist and leading figure in the Chicago blues scene Magic Slim has died at the age of 75.…
British author Hilary Mantel, a double Booker Prize winner, whose latest books are set in the Tudor court, dismissed Kate…
A Chilean court has ordered the exhumation of the remains of poet Pablo Neruda, as part of an inquest into…