Ethnic News

When music was banned in Mali, the organisers of Glastonbury festival swung into action and invited the country's top acts over.

Producers of the upcoming Broadway musical Soul Doctor , about the life and music of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach and his unlikely friendship with Nina Simon e, announced today that Benoit-Swan Pouffer , the acclaimed former artistic director of Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, will be the show's choreographer.

The Cozywoggle is an innovative new coat that is safe to be worn with the car seat.

The Northern Territory state funeral for the former lead singer of Yothu Yindi, Mr Yunupingu, will be held at the site of the annual Garma Festival in Arnhem Land.

Sajad smiles as he tries on a shark-themed pair of swim goggles while at Davidson College's Lake Campus on Sunday.

The Italian frontman has insisted that he is comfortable with life at Anfield, and reiterated his determination to stay in the Premier League rather than go back home to Italy Liverpool striker Fabio Borini has maintained that he wants to stay at Anfield next season, despite speculation over the 22-year-old's future.

Muslim hip-hop artists, poets, singers and classical musicians will perform today at the Crest Theatre in "An Islamic Expression of Traditional & Contemporary Art."

While he wasn't "Bond, James Bond". Simon Kassianides came close enough when he landed the role of Yusef in " Quantum of Solace " opposite Daniel Craig .

Indigenous weavers in Chiapas are using innovative designs and methods to sell their goods internationally.

Early Sunday, last call on the Pike-Pine corridor, and the shivering stiletto set are returning to their cars or stumbling home.

Nearly 20 children arrived in Charlotte from Afghanistan Wednesday morning. They will spend the next six weeks here, living with local families.

Russia's lower house passed a law banning gay "propaganda", a measure that human rights groups say has already fuelled attacks on homosexuals as President Vladimir Putin pursues an increasingly conservative social agenda.

The 29-year-old Fassie, who was in Port Elizabeth yesterday promoting his new album, Rise, believes music makes him whole.

"We made love where the horizon ends," coos Lykke Li on David Lynch's "I'm Waiting Here."

Oops. I'd thought there was a good probability I could get through today without having to post again about the ever more confusing NSA mess.

The writer, an Italian journalist with Il Foglio, writes a twice-weekly column for Arutz Sheva.

Apart from picking up a double Platinum, the track has also become the equal longest-running No.1 for 2013 in Australia.

Bamako, Mali's capital city is not nearly as far from Carencro as a map may indicate.

It's Friday morning, and I want everybody to be happy and alert - even on a rainy Albany day.

Alyssa Ast has a message she wants to pass along to teen moms struggling to find their place in life.