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New museum takes shape at heart of Nazi terror

New museum takes shape at heart of Nazi terror - 2010-03-01

BERLIN, Deborah Cole - Five years after opening a sprawling Holocaust Memorial in the heart of the city, Berlin is preparing to inaugurate a major new museum, this time targeting the Nazi...
US returns historical artifacts to Iraq

US returns historical artifacts to Iraq - 2010-02-26

WASHINGTON- US officials have returned more than 1,000 archaeological and historical items taken from Iraq after the 2003 US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, Iraq's ambassador here said...
Seeing world through other eyes at Paris expo

Seeing world through other eyes at Paris expo - 2010-02-22

PARIS, Andres Bermudez Lievano - From Alaskan masks to Flemish art, Peruvian jewellery and African sculptures, a major anthropological show just opened in Paris illustrates how different cultures...
Caravaggio blockbuster to open in Rome

Caravaggio blockbuster to open in Rome - 2010-02-20

ROME- Rome will host the largest number of Caravaggio paintings ever collected in one city with an exhibit set to open Saturday to celebrate the 400th year of the painter's death, organisers said....
Getty ordred to return priceless Greek bronze to Italy

Getty ordred to return priceless Greek bronze to Italy - 2010-02-12

ROME, Gina Doggett - An Italian court Thursday ordered the J. Paul Getty Museum to repatriate a priceless bronze statue, but the prestigious Los Angeles institution vowed to fight what it called a...

Iran cuts ties with British Museum over ancient treasure - 2010-02-08

TEHRAN, Farhad Pouladi - Iran cut ties with the British Museum on Sunday in protest at repeated delays in the loan to Tehran of an ancient Persian treasure, the Cyrus Cylinder, a senior official...
Japan's John Lennon Museum to close

Japan's John Lennon Museum to close - 2010-02-05

TOKYO- The world's only authorised John Lennon Museum, on the outskirts of Tokyo, will close its doors in September when a deal with his widow Yoko Ono ends, the operator said Thursday. The museum...
US philanthropist donates major art works to Cuba

US philanthropist donates major art works to Cuba - 2010-01-27

HAVANA - US philanthropist Gilbert Brownstone has donated 120 works by Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp and five other leading artists to Cuba's National Museum of Fine Art....

The art of forgery goes on show in London - 2010-01-24

LONDON- A unique collection of art goes on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London on Saturday -- all of it fake. More than 100 forged paintings and sculptures seized by the capital's...
Berlin given ultimatum over WWII museum

Berlin given ultimatum over WWII museum - 2010-01-05

BERLIN - A German MP set Berlin an ultimatum Tuesday in a row over a museum commemorating millions of ethnic Germans expelled after 1945 from Nazi-occupied areas which has soured relations with...
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Geldof attacks BBC report on Ethiopia aid

Geldof attacks BBC report on Ethiopia aid
LONDON - Anti-poverty campaigner Bob Geldof on Sunday lashed out at a BBC report that claimed millions of pounds raised for famine relief in Ethiopia by Band Aid in 1985 were used by rebels to pay for weapons. "About Band Aid, not a single penny...