In 2006 Italian artist Vanessa Beecroft travelled to Sudan to explore ideas for a new project. After encountering newborn twins in an orphanage, she instinctively started breastfeeding them (à la Salma Hayek) and decided to try to adopt them, and make them a subject for her work.

Only four tournaments remain on this season's Professional Bowlers Association schedule and for a number of bowlers, both rookies and veterans alike, it could be the four most important events of their careers.

For a century the Good Housekeeping Seal has guided consumers to wise purchases. Now the magazine is hoping it will lead them to environmentally friendly ones as well.

Is YouTube about to kill the video star? Doubtful. But the video streaming site has begun the process of removing all "premium" music videos from its UK pages after a spat with PRS for Music, the British songwriters' rights organisation. During negotiations over new licence fees for artists, during which PRS demanded a greater royalties share of Google's (which owns YouTube) ever-increasing ...

Washington, March 3: American actor Samuel L. Jackson has signed on to star in the big-screen adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates' 2003 book, Rape: A Love Story.

Jazz is a well-traveled musical road with many byways -- stride and Dixieland, big band and swing, bebop and Latin.

NEW YORK -- A documentary on child-sex trafficking co-produced by George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh, two dramas featuring Aidan Quinn, and a Swedish comedy about an all-male, synchronized

CHRIS ISAAK has been added to the Jazz Plus lineup. Submitted photo Sonoma residents will get first crack at tickets for the fifth annual Sonoma Jazz Plus Festival, where headliners include Lyle Lovett, Ziggy Marley and Chris Isaak.

A very special wedding reception took place Saturday night at Soldier Field for the son of a football legend.

Co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have kept mum about what they will be lampooning in tonight's season 13 premiere (hopefully they...

Associated Press - March 7, 2009 3:54 PM ET SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) - Children's author and movie/TV producer William Joyce teams with two producers, LSU-Shreveport and the state to create a new...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country singer Hank Locklin, whose smooth tenor voice on hits like ''Send Me the Pillow You Dream On'' and ''Please Help Me I'm Falling'' marked a career that spanned half a century, has died. He was 91.

She's been riding BMX since she was seven, competing internationally since she was eight, and has now won an elite scholarship to the University of Waikato.

Rupert Murdoch has grown the giant mammoth of a media company "The News Corporation" into one of the largest and most influential media groups in the world from a small town newspaper in Australia.

The winners have been named in the Bartow Bloomin Arts Festival, which took place last weekend. Best of show ($2,250) went to Jim Runkle of De Leon Springs. Second place ($1,500) went to Trent Manning of Winter Haven. Third place ($1,000) went to Peter Gerbert of Dade City.

Giambattista Valli evoked Yves Saint Laurent in Paris at his fall 2009 collection in Paris, Monday, March 9.

Morecambe chief executive Rod Taylor is delighted with the way Sammy McIlroy has turned the club's season around. At the turn of the year, the Shrimps looked set for a battle to avoid relegation, but a eight-game unbeaten run has lifted the club into the safety of mid-table.

A generation of young adults away from home for the first time is choosing books like a 13-year-old girl.

Remember in the movie "Men in Black," when the special agents played by Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones would erase the short-term memory of people who had seen an alien by using that flashing device?

The good news …there's no Fearne Cotton because she's got a mountain to climb. The bad news… her likely replacement is like Peaches Geldof.

How do you want to die? It's not a cheerful or a very welcome question, but it's the one we'll all have to ask one day. How would you want it to happen – quietly, violently, quickly, slowly? Should it be philosophical or action-packed; unashamedly secular or swathed in religious observance; done by your own hand or with the help of another? Should it be in private or in public?

Wynton's Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra salutes jazz great Monk in the first of two concerts this weekend.

1. TINTED WINDOWS

Broadway ticket availability and capsule reviews of shows as of March 9. Unless otherwise noted, tickets are available at the theaters' box offices for the shows listed. Details about how to obtain tickets appear at the end.

Golf makes for unlikely partnerships. The winner's caddie, A.J. Montecinos, is a Chicago native and a Christian who is Italian on his mother's side, Spanish on his father's side and played college golf at Jackson State, a historically black college in Mississippi. His Korean is not so good.

Named after US president Theodore Roosevelt, the very first stuffed teddy bear toy was born in 1902. Out on a bad hunting day, the President's staff tied a wild bear around a tree but Roosevelt didn't have the heart to kill it.

Tonya Harding's back and this time she's swinging at President Barack Obama.

A partner is four times more likely to leave you because of a mental health condition like depression than because of a physical disability. That's just one of the findings in new research for Time to Change the UK nationwide campaign to end the stigma faced by people with mental health problems.

These days everyone wants to live green (eco-friendly) and have green (cash). But with St. Patrick's Day around the corner, how about just wearing green?

Agencies Bangalore, March 10: Gil Reyes, the much-acclaimed trainer of Andre Agassi, who put Indian ace Sania Mirza through the paces at his Las Vegas base, gave the 22-year-old's physical condition a thumbs-up.

ACCORDING to Last Rounder Niño Vincent Armecin, he follows this column regularly but never found the time to email feedback. But my column a few weeks back on his favorite fighter, Fedor Emelianenko, gave him the impetus to share his thoughts.

LOS ANGELES, California -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- A record-setting 433 celebrities, VIPs and poker superstars went toe to toe last weekend in the 7th Annual World Poker Tour® Invitational poker tournament at Commerce Casino to benefit charity partner, The Vine Group USA (TVG). In the end, professional player Freddy Deeb bested actor Nicholas Gonzales at the final table to win the event, then donated ...

Barack Obama has given Gordon Brown a set of 25 classic American films to mark his historic visit to the White House.

The killers of a policeman lured to his death in an IRA splinter group trap were condemned as 'traitors' to Ireland today.