John Landis, the veteran director who made blockbuster movies Animal House, Trading Places and the Blues Brothers, is lined up to make a black comedy for Ealing Studios about Edinburgh's most famous serial killers Burke and Hare.

The 11th century Dunfermline Abbey in nearby Fife is to be transformed with spectacular lights and sounds as the Historic Scotland property is lit up with around 10,000 artificial candles.

The Festival of Spirituality and Peace is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to nurturing a practical vision for peace.

The Histories & Mysteries Conference will be the only occasion that the Mitchell-Hedges, recently featured in the blockbuster movie Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, is on pub

A series of ghostly walks and ghoulish events at a number of venues form this the fourth festival of infamous Edinburgh spirits.

Professor Richard Dawkins will join Richard Holloway in a discussion, on 1 April, on the meaning of life at the 2008 Edinburgh International Science Festival (EISF), it was announced today. The two men, with opposing views on religion, God, and science, met previously at the Edinburgh Science Festival in 2006.