Some historians speculate that April Fools' Day dates back to 1582, when France switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, as called for by the Council of Trent in 1563.

Cannes is back: The 78th French film festival returns May 13-24 with a wave of world premieres that will set the tone for the ...

From hardcover best-sellers to dog-eared paperbacks, novelists have given countless screenwriters in Hollywood the bones of a ...

April Fools’ practices date at least back to Renaissance Europe, and probably before. The holiday could be tied to the ...

ON APRIL Fool’s Day, be on high alert in Glasgow as the city is a master of seasonal pranks and silliness. In Scotland, April 1 was traditionally known as Hunt the Gowk Day, as a gowk is the Scots ...

This four-part series explores the history of science fiction in the atomic age – the creation of the atomic bomb by ...