Romanian-born piano prodigy Mihaela Ursuleasa has been found dead in her Vienna apartment after suffering a brain hemorrhage, Vienna police said Friday.

The 33-year-old winner of the prestigious Clara Haskil prize was found in her flat on Thursday morning, police said, adding that any involvement by a third party had been firmly ruled out.

Some of Berlin's most senior squatters are nearly a century old, but age is not stopping the scrappy bunch from fighting impending eviction from their cherished social club.

The cash-strapped authorities in the former communist eastern district of Pankow have said they need to cut around five million euros ($6 million) from their budget and plan to close public facilities to do so.

For the government, it's a target for crisis taxes and cuts like any other: the subsidized arts sector. For actors, artists and audiences, it's Spain's moral lifeblood, bleeding away in the recession.

The arts in Spain -- including the big film sector that gave the world Pedro Almodovar -- is in peril from a sharp rise in sales tax that will drive away audiences, top cultural figures say.

When the guide points out the location of the Hollywood salon where blond bombshell Marilyn Monroe first bleached her hair, a tourist exclaims, "Wow!" with reverence.

August 5 marks the 50th anniversary of the death of the legendary sex symbol from an overdose of barbiturates.

Top Nazi war crimes suspect Laszlo Csatary, accused of overseeing the deportation of thousands of Jews to their deaths during World War II, denied all allegations against him at a first hearing before prosecutors in Hungary on Tuesday, his lawyer said.

"Csatary denied all allegations against him," the 97-year-old man's lawyer, Gabor Horvath, told journalists after a three-hour closed-door hearing.

The remains and personal belongings of five American airmen have been recovered from the wreck of a U.S. Air Force plane, almost 70 years after it sank in Canadian waters, a diplomat said Tuesday.

The amphibious plane was accidentally discovered by underwater archeologists in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence in 2009 and a 50-person U.S. military team was sent earlier this month to search for the remains of the crash victims.

Rome's ancient Colosseum is leaning and needs urgent repairs but the long-delayed restoration project has been pushed back to December, the site's director said Monday.

Experts have discovered that the former gladiator battle ground is tilting about 40 centimeters (16) inches on its southern side, possibly due to cracked foundations, sparking fresh fears the iconic monument may be falling apart.

An expected worldwide boom in Muslim tourism is reflected in the growing availability of amenities such as halal spas and airport prayer rooms, experts say.

Thanks to their growing number and affluence, Muslims -- especially from the oil-rich Middle East -- are travelling like never before, and it is a trend that looks set to gather pace.

Looking at the spray paint on the cross and the rusting scooter seat in the weeds, it is hard to argue with the local landowner who laments, "Iraq is not like Egypt -- here, nobody gives a damn about our heritage."

In this town in south Iraq, home to two cemeteries -- one for British and Indian soldiers, the other for Turkish veterans -- who died in World War I, much of the remnants of bygone eras and rulers have been left crumbling.

The United States warned the world was sliding backwards on religious freedoms Monday, slamming China for cracking down on Tibetan Buddhists and hitting out at Pakistan and Afghanistan.

As the State Department unveiled its first report on religious freedoms since the start of the Arab Spring, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said it was a "signal to the worst offenders" that the world was watching.