Playbill - Annie Golden and Eartha Kitt will star in a new mounting of the musical Mimi Le Duck, the latest product of the New York International Fringe Festival to graduate to a commerical production.

For the seventh year, the Big Apple will host the New York International Latino Film Festival. The festival kicks off July 25 and is the biggest urban Latino film event in the country.

AFP - International auction house Christie's launched a new facility for overseas customers to be present at sales without leaving their computers.

Reuters - Toyota Motor Corp., the world's most profitable car maker, posted a 53.2 percent rise in quarterly operating profit on Wednesday on healthy sales, cost cuts and a weaker yen, and it forecast more growth this year as it adds production capacity around the globe.

Reuters - Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (7211.T) on Thursday posted better-than-expected annual results, scoring an operating profit for the first time in three years, but stuck to its profit targets for the next two years as it struggles to restore its key U.S. business.