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Historians Alexandru Zub and Gheorghe Cliveti of the A.D. Xenopol History Institute of the Romanian Academy will hold two conferences at Moldova's Academy of Sciences in Chisinau on October 21, as part of a project called 'Academic Readings,' the Mihai Eminescu Romanian Culture Institute reports.

Five years after his death, singer Michael Jackson is generating a fortune and is the top-earning dead celebrity, raking in an estimated $140 million in the past year for his estate

Award-winning US stage and screen actor Neil Patrick Harris will host the next Oscars show, organizers announced Wednesday.

Cem Garipoğlu, who was serving a 24-year jail sentence for murdering his 17-year-old girlfriend in a case that made national headlines, was found dead in his cell in an apparent suicide

Actor Mircea Albulescu was celebrated on Saturday, the very day he turned 80, at the I. L. Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film (UNATC) of Bucharest, the maestro highlighting on this occasion that the one who doesn't love what he is doing lives for nothing.

BELGRADE - The Sava Center's Grand Hall was filled to capacity on Friday evening for the world premiere of 'Sunstroke', a film by renowned Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov.

Among the celebrities seen on the red carpet outside the Sava Center, decorated on this occasion with scenes from the movie, was Serbian film director Emir Kusturica.

A Bucharest court on Wednesday started the trial of Alexandru Visinescu, a former prison commander accused of aggravated murder in the deaths of at least 12 political prisoners under the Communist regime.

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President and Managing Director of the Romanian National Television Broadcaster (SRTV), Stelian Tanase said on Wednesday that when he tried to enforce the programme meant to reform this institution he noticed outright resistance from inside, but also from outside, from political figures.

Singer Mirabela Dauer said in an interview with AGERPRES that Bucharest has lost some of the romantic charm of its past, and the only romantic location still in place in Bucharest is the Old City Centre. "Bucharest is gorgeous, but it's no longer as romantic as it used to be," she said.

Hollywood hearthrob Ryan Gosling and his actress girlfriend Eva Mendes are proud parents of a baby daughter, media reports said