Entertainment & Arts
Austria wins Eurovision Song Contest 2014
Austrian drag artist Conchita Wurst has won the Eurovision Song Contest, despite causing controversy in Eastern Europe.Michelle Obama gives weekly address on kidnapped Nigerian girls
U.S. first lady Michelle Obama took the rare step of delivering her husband President Barack Obama\'s weekly radio address on Saturday to ...Former Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi begins community service sentence
Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi began his community service sentence for tax fraud at a hospice for Alzheimer\'s patients near Milan ...Spanish artist wins major US Music Competition
The International Songwriting Competition (ISC), widely recognized as the world\'s most prestigious and respected songwriting competition, has today announced its 2013 winners. ...Saudi blogger gets prison time, 1,000 lashes for web posts
A Saudi Arabia court has imprisoned blogger Raif Badawi for 10 years for "insulting Islam" and setting up a liberal web forum, ...Nigerian president orders renewed efforts to free kidnapped girls
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday ordered a stepped-up drive to free 223 schoolgirls whose abduction by suspected Islamists has ignited a ...Brazil gay rights advocates call for ban on discrimination in large annual parade
Hundreds of thousands of gay rights supporters - many wearing elaborate colorful costumes - marched through the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo ...Barack Obama jokes about Vladimir Putin and ObamaCare
US President Barack Obama poked fun at his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, Republicans and media elites, and even mocked himself for his ...British actor Bob Hoskins dies aged 71
British actor Bob Hoskins, whose varied career ranged from noir drama "Mona Lisa" to animated fantasy "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" has died ...Abducted Nigerian girls sold into marriage to Islamist extremists
Hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped two weeks again are being sold to as wives to Islamic militants for as little as $12 each, it ...