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Talk about fake news: In 1907 a New York Times banner headline declared, “There Is Life On the Planet Mars.” Upping the ante the next year, the stodgy Wall Street Journal claimed “proof” of “conscious, intelligent human life” on our red neighbor.

An awkward adolescent girl travels from the United States to visit her grandmother and other relatives in Taipei, where she becomes obsessed by her older girl cousin and the bizarre fantasy of cooking and eating a woman who works in the dumpling stor

The English poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe was born in 1564, the same year as his frenemy William Shakespeare. Yet unless you majored in English in college, it is quite possible you never heard of him. Except you have.

Seven years ago, Irish singer CMAT (born Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson) received life-changing advice from a fellow rising pop star. Charli xcx urged her to dump her boyfriend and take making music seriously. It turns out that Charli knows best.

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry on Monday condemned Woody Allen for speaking virtually at a Russian film festival over the weekend, calling his participation in the event “a disgrace and an insult” to the victims of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukr

TORONTO — When Oasis fans said they wanted to be soaked in nostalgia, this isn't exactly what they had in mind.

MONTREAL — The uniquely Quebec version of "The Simpsons" — dubbed in Québécois French and featuring local place names, politicians, current events and popular expressions — has come to an abrupt end, leaving fans without their beloved adaptation.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Aug. 31-Sept. 6: Aug. 31: Singer Van Morrison is 80. Violinist Itzhak Perlman is 80. Guitarist Rudolf Schenker of Scorpions is 77. Actor Richard Gere is 76.

VENICE, Italy (AP) — No Hollywood star seems as intrinsically tied to Venice as George Clooney .

NEW YORK (AP) — Jerry Adler, who spent decades behind the scenes of storied Broadway productions before pivoting to acting in his 60s, has died at 96.