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Popular video-sharing website YouTube says it is ready to increase the limit it places on video uploads to 15 minutes, from the current 10 minutes.

Toronto's Caribana - the biggest Caribbean festival in North America - heads into its final few days, despite a loss of $400,000 in federal funding.

Rock star, astrophysicist and animal rights activist Brian May has revealed a new obsession - stereo photographs.

A former Brazilian crime show host and state legislator accused of orchestrating murders to boost his TV ratings has died in hospital.

U.S. President Barack Obama mounted a spirited defence of his first 20 months in office Thursday on the popular daytime talk show The View.

Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission on residential schools is inviting submissions of art work that relates to experiences at the schools, or to the legacy of those experiences.

Ousted Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod says she will sue a conservative blogger who posted an edited video of her making racially tinged remarks last week.

The much-lauded author of Cloud Atlas talks about his new Booker-nominated historical epic.

Barney's Version, the movie based on Mordecai Richler's acclaimed novel, is among the high-profile titles making their world debuts at this year's Venice Film Festival.

In back rooms and refugee camps across Gaza, young men are rapping over hip hop beats, flipping over metal bars and spinning on their heads to funky dance music.

Archives for two of the Second World War's great leaders - British prime minister Winston Churchill and U.S. president Franklin Delano Roosevelt - are to be made available online.

The Italian government is looking for private sponsors to help it restore one of Rome's ancient landmarks - the Colosseum.

Toronto's Shary Boyle, who challenges preconceptions of beauty in her sculptures, paintings and art installations, will have major exhibits of her work in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.

An online parody of a Jay-Z hit that swaps New York's metropolis for a modest Welsh port town has won hundreds of thousands of fans, the director of the spoof says.

Gord Bamford will be the one to beat at the 2010 Canadian Country Music Association Awards, with the Albertan singer leading the pack for with six nominations for the upcoming edition.

State authorities blasted organizers of Germany's Love Parade on Wednesday, accusing those behind the techno music festival of significant security failures that may have led to the stampede that killed 21 attendees and injured more than 500 last weekend.

Ben Keith, a steel guitarist who played for 40 years with Neil Young, has died. He was 73.

The Warsaw Rising Museum, which documents the 1944 uprising against the Nazis by the Polish resistance, has created a 3-D film to document the Nazis' destruction of the city.

The late Maury Chaykin is being hailed as "one of our greatest actors" and a performer who created "unforgettable characters" in the tributes emerging after his death on Tuesday.

Carla Bruni-Sarzoky films scenes for Woody Allen's forthcoming movie Midnight in Paris.