Topic: Western Europe

Algerian-born pop star paroled in France

Algerian-born singer Cheb Mami was paroled Wednesday less than two years into a five-year sentence in France for trying to force an ex-lover to have an abortion, his lawyer said Wednesday.Known as the "Prince of Rai," the chart-topping pop star left his ...

Curtain to fall on London theater's Fringe Report

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - For almost a decade, the appropriately shoe-string outfit The Fringe Report has played a lead role in helping actors and audiences to navigate their way through the maze of low-budget theatres in London and beyond.From an office beneath ...

Danish star Ulrich Thomsen to star in "The Face"

BERLIN (Hollywood Reporter) - Danish star Ulrich Thomsen is reportedly attached to star in the period drama "The Face" from Swiss director Markus Imboden.Thomsen, who appears in Susanne Bier's Golden Globe-nominated "In A Better World," will play a man suffering from amnesia ...

"The Archers" celebrates 60th anniversary

"The Archers", the world's longest-running soap opera, celebrated its 60th birthday over the New Year long weekend with a major storyline set to shake up the BBC radio serial.The soap marked its anniversary over the three-day New Year long weekend with its ...
Liz Hurley and her husband have separated, the British actress announced Sunday, as a newspaper reported she has been having an affair with Australia cricket great Shane Warne."Not a great day," Hurley told her followers on social networking site Twitter. "For the ...
Lucy Tang hates the cold and has a fear of large social gatherings. 'I crave the simplicity of these races, it's all such a respite from the bustle of normal daily life.' Normal, for Sir David and Lady Tang, involves starry dinners ...
The Tony-nominated nostalgia fest will officially open at the West End's Noel Coward Theatre on February 28, 2011 but performances in London will actually start three weeks' earlier on February 8, 2011.. The Broadway, New York, production team is remaining very much ...

Beyond the pale

Two weeks ago, a luminous Emma Watson strode onto the red carpet at the London premiere of the Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows. "With new tanning trends emerging every season, a tan is no longer just for summer," says Britain's number-one ...

Photographs of 20th-Century stars go under hammer

The London sale at Christie's features more than 150 works by photographers including Norman Parkinson and David Bailey.. Shots of supermodels such as Cindy Crawford and Christy Turlington have estimates upwards of ?3,000, with Kate Moss photographed by celebrity photographer Rankin in ...

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

The article announces that Jennifer Adams has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Horticulture Week Landscape Amenity Awards 2008 in Great Britain. iHowever, her core roie untii her retirement eariier this year was at the Directorate of Open Spaces, a 2001 ...