Pope Benedict XVI has joined Twitter, sending his first tweet Tuesday.

British actor Alan Rickman, the stage and film star now best known for portraying professor Severus Snape in the Harry Potter movies, is returning to Broadway.

Ai Weiwei, the artist and government critic who emerged last week from nearly three months in police custody, has been been asked to pay $1.8 million Cdn in fines and unpaid taxes by the Chinese government.

Christie’s auction house says a painting by Francis Bacon has sold for £17.96 million ($28.3 million Cdn) at a sale in London.

America Ferrera, who played the leading character in the television series Ugly Betty, has married filmmaker Ryan Piers Williams, her long-time boyfriend.

An Egyptian Christian telecom mogul has angered Islamic hardliners by posting an online cartoon of Mickey Mouse with a beard and Minnie in a face veil.

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An Alberta Theatre Projects’ production of The Penelopiad has a leading nine nominations for the Betty Mitchell Awards, the annual prizes for the best in Calgary theatre.

The Metallica concert in Halifax will go on as planned next month, despite a battle over municipal services for the July 14 event.

A Saskatoon street could soon bear the name of reality TV star Shannon Tweed.