ROME, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- Hollywood screen icon Al Pacino's movie "Chinese Coffee" is scheduled to open the 3rd annual Rome International Film Festival, organizers said.

WASHINGTON, May 12 (UPI) -- Lebanon has always been a country that has stood out from the rest of the Middle East for a number of reasons -- primarily because Lebanon consistently has been a country of many contradictions.

ROME, April 24 (UPI) -- An annual exhibit of stolen and recovered artworks that opened Thursday in Rome includes a Roman portrait sculpture missing for almost half a century.

ROME , Sept. 28 (UPI) -- Dozens of the world’s most popular movie stars plan to travel to Italy next month for the second annual Rome Cinema Festival.

LONDON, May 22 (UPI) -- British officials have returned a 1,900-year-old Roman ring to Turkey after determining it was probably illegally exported.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Just back from war, a Marine general received his third star last month after a four-month delay for his failure to use "gender neutral" terms in an e-mail.

Film legend Richard Harris, seen most recently as Professor Dumbledore in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" and Emperor Marcus Aurelius in "Gladiator," is reportedly battling cancer.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- Happy Christmas! Or are you not happy? Are you "celebrating" the holidays alone? Are you ill and house-ridden? Or are you "looking forward" to a gray January po