VENICE: Waves of soldiers marching in double time open the new documentary by Gianfranco Rosi at the Venice film festival, but the Italian filmmaker’s aim is...
VENICE: It took Majid Majidi four months and nearly 4,000 auditions to find the dynamic street children stars of “Khorshid” (Sun Children), the Iranian...
ROME: Rome's famed Colosseum reopened Monday after a three-month coronavirus lockdown but only a few hundred people were expected at Italy's top tourism...
POMPEII, Italy: Italy's world-famous archaeological site Pompeii reopened to the public on Tuesday as the country's coronavirus lockdown lifted - though...
FLORENCE, Italy: As sandal season fast approaches, a new exhibition on ancient footwear at a top Italian museum seeks to remind today's well-heeled that when...
Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk said late Friday he would heed shareholder concerns and no longer pursue a $72 billion deal to take the luxury electric...
SAN FRANCISCO: A tense and short-tempered Chief Executive Elon Musk barked at engineers on the Fremont, California assembly line. Tesla Inc. pulled workers...
LOS ANGELES: Volvo’s North American CEO, Lex Kerssemakers, lost his cool as the automaker’s semi-autonomous prototype sporadically refused to...
SAN FRANCISCO: As cars increasingly resemble digital devices, a group of technology firms that can send wireless software updates to cars are in hot demand by...
PARIS: Twelve years ago, one of the two brothers suspected of the shootings at satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo was a young man like many others in France, more...
RUNGIS, France: At the temple to gastronomy outside Paris, Rungis market, Marinette shows off a tray of fat white truffles from Italy, at 1,800 euros a kilo...
PARIS: Eight French politicians will disguise themselves as citizens struggling with real-world problems in a TV show aimed at narrowing the gap between...
BLOIS, France: In a country whose national identity is so closely connected to its cuisine, France’s hard right has seized on a growing appetite for kebabs as...
PARIS: Billowing sails of glass join the Eiffel Tower and the Sacre Coeur as permanent fixtures of the Paris skyline this month, when the new Fondation Louis...
PARIS: Leave it to Alber Elbaz, creative director of Lanvin, to pull off a Paris Fashion Week show on Thursday that retained all its elegance and class even...
PARIS: Likes: playing hide and seek in the bathtub, dining on wet food in sauce, flicking pencils from the desk onto the floor.Dislikes: opera, room sprays,...
PARIS: Shooting a .22 caliber rifle at a plaster-covered canvas concealing bags of paint launched Niki de Saint Phalle to the height of the avant-garde...
CANNES, France: Whizz-kid Canadian director Xavier Dolan screened a tour-de-force black comedy at Cannes about a disturbed teenager’s relationship with...
CANNES, France: An old man’s white hair suddenly changes to red in “Eau Argentee, Syrie autoportrait” (Silvered Water, Syria self-portrait)...
OUISTREHAM, France: When Leon Gautier landed on Sword Beach in a hail of enemy fire on June 6, 1944, as one of the first wave of French commandos to set foot...
LONDON/PARIS: Movers and shakers of the film world are boarding yachts or jets to head for the once sleepy Mediterranean seaside town of Cannes for a 12-day...
CANNES: Sun, celebrities, and a world-renowned film festival have made Cannes synonymous with glamour, guaranteed prime people watching and a chance to relish...
PARIS: The shrieks of madwomen assault visitors entering the Musee d’Orsay’s new exhibit on Vincent Van Gogh, an arresting look at the painter’s work as seen...
PARIS: “Every act of creation is first an act of destruction,” said Pablo Picasso, a fitting aphorism for the five-year renovation of the Picasso Museum in...
PARIS: While most other fashion designers may settle for the usual trappings of their business – a dark room, straight runway and phalanx of bored-looking...