Soul singer Fontella Bass, best known for the hit single Rescue Me, has died of complications following a heart attack…
Fifty Sheds of Grey, a clever parody of this year’s most talked about racy novel, Fifty Shades of Grey, has…
Milan's famous La Scala theatre has cancelled the opening day of its ballet season due to a strike by performers.…
The piano that features in the classic 1940s film Casablanca has been sold for more than $600,000 at Sotheby’s auction…
The Tallow Candle, an early work by Hans Christian Andersen, has been found at the bottom of a box near…
Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar maestro, has died in a hospital in San Diego, aged 92. His family said he had…
Russian opera singer Galina Vishnevskaya, who performed soprano roles in opera classics, has died aged 86. In a career spanning…
What thinking about nothing looks like? Artist Gustav Metzger did wonder how his empty mind might appear if made corporeal.…
Italian police say they have recovered a stolen 2,000-year-old Egyptian sphinx near the capital Rome. They believe the granite statue…
Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, who designed some of the 20th Century's most famous modernist buildings, has died just before his…