BAGHDAD, IRAQ, Karim About Merhi- Iraq's national museum officially reopened Saturday after 12 years of painstaking efforts during which close to a third of 15,000 pieces looted during the US-led...
ISTANBUL, TURKEY, Dilay Gundogan and Tanya Willmer- Yasar Kemal, who was one of Turkey's most celebrated writers, a traditional storyteller with a social conscience and an outspoken champion of the...
BAGHDAD, IRAQ, Jean Marc Mojon- Islamic State militants armed with sledgehammers and jackhammers have destroyed priceless ancient artefacts in Iraq's city of Mosul, a video released by the jihadists...
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES- US bookseller Barnes & Noble said Thursday it will retain its struggling Nook division, which produces tablets and digital books, backtracking on a decision from last...
HOLLYWOOD, UNITED STATES, Michael Thurston- Julianne Moore, who won the best actress Oscar on Sunday, was a late-bloomer who turned 30 before she hit the big screen -- but has more than made up for...
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES- Morrissey will perform four shows at the Sydney Opera House as the famously gloomy British singer headlines a festival of light. Morrissey will sing on May 26-27 and May...
LOS ANGELES, UNITED STATES- A defiant Bill Cosby hit back Wednesday at sex allegations swirling against him, declaring: "I'm far from finished." The embattled 77-year-old actor-comedian, a household...
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA- Australian Oscar winner Cate Blanchett plans to leave her Sydney home and move to the United States where her artistic director husband Andrew Upton will pursue freelance writing...
LONDON, UK- Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking on Monday congratulated British actor Eddie Redmayne, who won an Oscar for playing him in the film "The Theory of Everything". "Well done Eddie, I'm very...
NEW YORK, US, Shaun Tandon- Jazz trumpeter Clark Terry, the playful soloist and teacher whose seven-decade career spanned a golden era of jazz, has died at 94, his wife announced on Sunday. "Our...
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