BEVERLY HILLS, California — “Downton Abbey” will be back for its fifth season on Jan. 4, but the return date for another hit PBS series, “Sherlock,”...
SAN ANTONIO — A YouTube video that shows Kacy Catanzaro, a 5-foot, 100-pound gymnast, breezing through an obstacle course where others twice her size often fail...
TORONTO—The second leg of “The Amazing Race Canada” turned on a shoulder. Fortysomething Halifax married couple Jen and Shawn King were the second team to be...
TOKYO—Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, who shared an Oscar for Bernardo Bertolucci’s “The Last Emperor” score, has been diagnosed with throat cancer and has cancelled his upcoming...
NEW DELHI—Actress and dancer Zohra Sehgal, who charmed viewers with her impish grin and twinkling eyes, has died of heart failure in New Delhi at age...
NASHVILLE—Garth Brooks is finally embracing digital music, but he’s doing it his own way. Brooks, one of the last holdout big-name musicians still refusing to put...
TORONTO—Jennifer Weiner delves into the dark topic of addiction in her new novel “All Fall Down,” a story born of painful firsthand experience. Seven years ago,...
OTTAWA—Ottawa has effectively eliminated a fee charged to international musicians that critics complained was deterring acts from abroad from playing in Canadian bars, pubs and restaurants....
NEW YORK — Welcome back to the National Book Awards, Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket. The National Book Foundation announced Wednesday that the best-selling author will...
LONDON — Paul McCartney says he’s feeling fab and ready to rock `n’ roll. The 72-year-old former Beatle posted a brief YouTube video Tuesday night saying...