Arts & culture

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

KAWARAMACHI, Japan — Time seems to stop here.  Women sit in a small circle, quietly, painstakingly stitching patterns on balls the...

PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA — Nhem Liza made her first visit to the National Museum of Cambodia after learning about the August...