Arts & culture

ATHENS, GREECE — Slowly, almost imperceptibly at first, a smile spreads across the little girl's face. Blinking behind her glasses, she...

After more than five years of frenetic reconstruction work, Notre Dame Cathedral showed its new self to the world Friday,...

NEW YORK — Arthur Frommer, whose "Europe on 5 Dollars a Day" guidebooks revolutionized leisure travel by convincing average Americans to...

A piece of art that is little more than a banana duct-taped to a wall sold at auction for $6.2...

Los Angeles — Moviegoers were not exactly feeling the Christmas spirit this weekend, or at least not based on their attendance...

OME, Japan — Deep in a dark warehouse the sake sleeps, stored in rows of giant tanks, each holding more than...

LONDON — British writer Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday with "Orbital," a short, wonder-filled novel set...

LOS ANGELES — American actor John Amos, who starred as the family patriarch on the hit 1970’s sitcom Good Times and...

MUNICH — The head brewmaster for Weihenstephan, the world's oldest brewery, has a secret: He really likes alcohol-free beer. Even though...

'Downton Abbey' colleagues, fellow actors mourn death of Maggie Smith