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Washington (AFP) - Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola was inducted into America's arts pantheon at Washington's Kennedy Center on Sunday, where directing greats Martin Scorsese and George Lucas paid tribute to...

New York (AFP) - Musician and producer Jay-Z was accused in a lawsuit submitted Sunday of raping a 13-year-old with hip-hop star Sean Combs in the year 2000, court documents...

Washington (AFP) - Film legend Francis Ford Coppola and psychedelic rockers the Grateful Dead will be honored at a glitzy Washington gala Sunday along with blues singer Bonnie Raitt and...

Washington (AFP) - China's retaliatory export controls could take a toll on the growing US clean energy sector and its defense industry, analysts say, as a trade tussle escalates between...

Washington (AFP) - Ruby slippers worn by actor Judy Garland in "The Wizard of Oz" went under the hammer Saturday, and the winning price was over the rainbow -- a...

Toronto (Canada) (AFP) - Taylor Swift took the stage in Vancouver on Sunday for the final show of her record-shattering "Eras" tour, a cultural phenomenon that has easily become the...

Paris (AFP) - France celebrated the re-opening of the newly restored Notre Dame cathedral on Saturday at a special church service that featured a standing ovation for the firefighters who...

New York (AFP) - New York's mayor said Saturday "the net is tightening" on the man suspected of gunning down a top health insurance executive outside a Manhattan hotel before...

Paris (AFP) - The archbishop of Paris re-opened Notre Dame cathedral on Saturday by symbolically knocking on the doors and entering the 12th-century landmark which has been restored after a...

Washington (AFP) - The mother of Austin Tice, the American journalist abducted in Syria in 2012, told reporters Friday that her son is believed to be alive and is being...