Rapper Kendrick Lamar lead the early winners at Monday's Grammy awards with fouraccolades including one shared with Taylor Swift, while Justin Bieber and Ed Sheerancelebrated their first Grammy wins.
Fifa’s Ballon d’Or ceremony is undoubtedly overblown and overdressed but Barcelona’s talisman is a worthy winner of the celebrated award
Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio and Alejandro Iñárritu win
The German Federal Cartel Office prohibited on Wednesday the German arm of Booking.com from continuing to use best-price clauses in its contracts with hotel operators in the country.
Kenya wrote history as the best country in track and field when it ruled roost as the curtains came down on the 15th edition of the World Championships at the Bird's Nest Stadium in Beijing on Sunday.
Chinese film "The Dead End" became a bigger winner with the best director and best actor awards at the 18th Shanghai International Film Festival, which ended on Sunday.
Chile's Copa America 2015 is set to be a magical showcase of the best talent in the world of football but the bets are on for who will be the tournament's best player.
"Birdman" and "The Grand Budapest Hotel" led Thursday's Oscar nominations, with nine nominations each for the 87th Academy Awards, followed by "The Imitation Game," which got eight nods.
The 2014 Xingyun (Nebula) Award for Global Chinese Science Fiction was announced Sunday, with the best saga novel prize awarded to a story about a world trapped in an endless loop.
The sixth ReAnimania International Animation Film Festival underway here on Saturday through Friday presents the best animated films produced by world filmmakers this year.
The movie "Song of My Mother", directed by Erol Mintas from Turkey, on Saturday won the Heart of Sarajevo for the best film at the 20th Sarajevo Film Festival (SFF) .
Colombians Monday celebrated the selection of a goal by national footballer James Rodriguez as the best of the 2014 Brazil World Cup.
Georgian film "Corn Island", directed by George Ovashvili, won the main prize Crystal Globe and and a 25,000 U.S. dollars cash prize at the prize-giving gala of the 49th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival on Saturday night.
The Dutch film "Boys" won four awards at the 54th International Film Festival for Children and Youth which is held in Zlin, the Czech Republic, the organisers announced on Wednesday before the awarding ceremony.
As a cruel arctic winter envelops much of North America, Australia is literally sweltering in another record-breaking heatwave. With the summer crowds, pouring out of the Sydney CBD this week for the nearest refreshing solution, the team at Xinhua, Sydney bureau have selected what we think are the best of the best – Sydney's top beaches and what they offer for those looking to escape the grinding heat.
Iconic Chinese movie star Zhang Ziyi won the best leading actress award at the Golden Horse Awards, considered the Chinese-language Oscars, for her performance in the film "The Grandmaster."
HBO garnered seven more honors at the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony Sunday in addition to the 20 awards it earned last week, bringing its total Emmy haul to 27 this year.