If you’ve ever wondered what might have happened to Job if he had a strong left hook, “Southpaw” may be the film for you. The rapid descent of light heavyweight champ Billy Hope (Jake

America’s immigrant communities have long provided Hollywood with convenient settings for movies about criminality and gang culture. Blockbusters like “The Godfather” (1972), “Goodfellas” (1990), “Road to Perdition” (2002) and “Gangs of New York” (2002)

Somali government troops backed by African Unionforces Wednesday captured the Shabab stronghold of Bardhere, one of the last key bases of the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamists, officials said. “We have secured control of the town. The

ISIS’ effort to inspire troubled Americans to violence has become more of a terror threat to the U.S. than an external attack by Al-Qaeda, the FBI director said Wednesday. FBI Director James Comey told

With popular culture dominated by cinema and photography, and the conventions of catwalk beauty they favor, abstract figuration can be a challenging form to appreciate. “Elegy,” the solo show of Nadia Safieddine’s oils now

An Australian woman has lived to tell the tale after being brought back to life from being clinically dead for 42 minutes, doctors said on Monday. Mother-of-two Vanessa Tanasio, 41, was rushed to Monash Medical

Bestselling Chinese author Murong Xuecun had nearly 4 million followers on his Twitter-like microblog. One day in May his account disappeared. So did his profiles on several other social media sites. No explanation was

Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards paramilitary units plan to teach drone-hunting to school students, an Iranian newspaper reported Monday. The report by pro-reform Etemad daily quoted Gen. Ali Fazli, acting commander of the Guard's Basij militia,

A fossil of the oldest known ancestor of modern rats -- an agile creature that could climb, burrow and eat just about anything -- has been unearthed in China, scientists said Thursday. The newly named

Six thousand Catholic faithful attended an Assumption mass in the Basilica of Saint Pius X in Lourdes Thursday, two months after the church in southwestern France was damaged by floodwaters. The crowds were only slightly