| The Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane Film Festivals have come together to throw their weight behind the release of niche and art house Australian films.
| Adel Imam is one of the Arab world’s most famous comic actors but has found himself with a three-month jail sentence for insulting Islam.
| Emerging artists in the United Arab Emirates have received recognition as part of the Sheikha Manal Young Artist Award (YAA).
| The house where revered architects Liang Sicheng and his wife Lin Huiyin once worked has been destroyed by developers, to the dismay of heritage experts.
| Germany has returned an ancient Afghan sculpture from the country’s pre-Islamic period that was looted during the civil war.
| A casting call for extras for Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit was shut down in Lower Hutt near Wellington when more than 3,000 people turned up to get in on the action.
| The Nordic Music Prize has revealed the twelve candidates in the running to claim the award for Best Nordic Album 2012.
| With super-fast broadband and huge bandwidths, could the mp3 be on its way out and streaming on its way in? In this, the age of ‘the cloud’, it seems that anything is possible.
| Nigerian director Dickson Iroegbu is set to release 'Law 58', a controversial film that he claims exposes the practice and consequences of homosexuality in African society.
| ‘Princess of Africa’, Yvonne Chaka Chaka becomes the first African woman to be presented with the World Economic Forum’s Crystal Award.