The films of Japan's Daisuke Miyazaki and Norway's August Joachim Trier will be the first among 12 movies in competition to screen Saturday at the Transylvania International Film Festival.

Miyazaki's "End of the Night" and Trier's "Oslo, August 31" will be showcased on the second day of the 10-day Romanian festival, one of the biggest in the Balkans.

It started with an inflatable pig.

Jeffrey Shaw has always been fascinated by interactivity; having in the 1960s created art he hoped would narrow the gap between viewer and image.

In a unique artistic initiative to collaborate with dancers from the Arab World, and to bring the outcome to audiences all over Lebanon, Danish dance company Mancopy is presenting its new contemporary dance performance “EVERY last BREATH” between the 14th and the 24th of June 2012, before going onto a world tour.

For the past seven years, Jens Bjerregaard, artistic director of Mancopy Dance Company, has been collaborating with artists from around the world, convinced that through international exchange; art finally becomes an instrument of free expression.

Dasha Zhukova, the partner of Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, presented plans Thursday to move her Moscow art gallery to a structure built of giant paper tubes in historic Gorky Park.

"I think this is a really beautiful pavilion and it's really exciting for Moscow. There hasn't been anything quite like this built here," Zhukova said at a presentation in the park.

Amateur divers have discovered a sunken ship they believe is a Swedish royal navy vessel that went down off Stockholm in 1660 with a cargo of gold and jewels, they said Thursday.

The divers said they had not found the Resande Man's precious cargo, which the ship was carrying to Poland as a gift from the Swedish government when it sank in the Baltic Sea in November 1660.

For almost a century, Copenhagen's iconic Little Mermaid statue has perched alone on a rock in the harbor, wistfully pining for the prince she has been promised -- and now she will finally get her man.

The city of Helsingoer, or Elsinore as Shakespeare wrote, will on Saturday unveil a suitable companion to Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale mermaid, in the shape and form of HAN (HIM, in Danish).

In New York City, a centuries-old craft lives on: the making of matzo bread.

Welcome to Streit's, Inc., a 96-year-old family enterprise on Manhattan's Lower East Side that on an hourly basis churns out 1,100 pounds (about 500 kilos) of the unleavened fare traditionally consumed by Jews during Passover.

Relatively few black or white families are relocating to an otherwise growing number of diverse neighborhoods in the United States, according to a study published Thursday.

Writing in this month's American Sociological Review, a team of sociologists examined the "mobility patterns" of black and white families that moved house between 1977 and 2005 within their own metropolitan areas.

The Vatican's official newspaper is for the first time in its more than 150-year history printing a special supplement for women, the publication said Wednesday.

The four-page color supplement, which will appear in Italian every last Thursday of the month in the L'Osservatore Romano, aims to promote better understanding of the "under-appreciated treasure" of women in the Church, the paper's director Giovanni Maria Vian told reporters.

The renaming of a small town square after Hungary's wartime leader and Adolf Hitler ally is stirring emotions, with critics denouncing it as evidence of the country's drift to the far right.

Fifty-five years after his death, Miklos Horthy will once again have a park in his name when part of leafy Freedom Square in Gyomro, some 30 kilometers (20 miles) east of Budapest, is renamed on Friday.