The most impressed were children. The unusual combination of vibrant music, vivid makeup and costumes, dances and acrobatics being performed at the Brancaccio Theatre in Rome, seemed to both enchant them and make them eager to join in.
Four people were injured on Thursday when a JetBlue flight with 147 people aboard made an emergency landing due to an engine problem shortly after takeoff from Long Beach Airport, southern California.
China marked the 83rd anniversary of the 9.18 Incident on Thursday in a high-profile manner, as senior Communist Party of China official Liu Yunshan joined citizens to strike a big bell on which was carved with "never forget national humiliation."
Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin would support a new mission to the moon by countries other than the United States, and is looking forward to a manned mission to Mars.
South Korean shares slid Monday on concerns that the U.S. central bank may signal its move toward policy rate increases at the September policy meeting this week.
U.S. citizen Miller Matthew Todd who had been held in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) for committing "anti-DPRK acts" was sentenced to six years of hard labor, the official KCNA news agency reported on Sunday.
Sony's low-budget horror film "No Good Deed," starring Idris Elba and Taraji P. Henson, secured the top place in the North American box office, with an estimated tickets earning of 24.5 million U.S. dollars over the weekend.
A father was booked into a jail Thursday in the U.S. southern state of South Carolina after he was arrested on charges of murdering five children, ages one to eight, local authorities said.
A United Nations report recognizing the role of the hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica is significant in understanding climate change in the Southern Hemisphere, a leading New Zealand government expert said Thursday.
Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho and Bank of Portugal Governor Carlos Costa denied allegations on Wednesday that they suggested former Banco Espirito Santo (BES) chief Ricardo Salgado to step down.
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York on Sunday introduced to the public a new exhibit portraying the years-long hunt for, the ultimate discovery and killing of Osama bin Laden.
Israel has told the New Zealand government that it will not accept New Zealand's new ambassador because the ambassador was also accredited to the Palestinian Authority, according to reports on Monday.
A jury on Thursday found former Governor of U.S. State Virginia Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, guilty of a slate of public-corruption charges.
Portugal's 3.5 billion euros (4.55 billion U.S. dollars) debt sale of 15-year bonds on Wednesday came as little surprise, said analysts.
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday reshuffled his Cabinet for the first time since retaking the nation's helm in December 2012 and ushered in no less than twelve new faces, including five female ministers in his new-look 18-member lineup.
A brilliant future is expected to come into China's cinema market from the internet, the president of China's online video giant iQiyi Motion Pictures, Li Yansong, said on Wednesday at the Venice film festival in Italy.
Ireland's tax revenue in the first eight months of the year was running nearly 1 billion euros ahead of target, according to latest exchequer figures on Tuesday.