Arts

Statue of pharaoh Tutankhamon's sister recovered - 12/09/2013

CAIRO- Egypt said Sunday it has recovered a statue of pharaoh Tutankhamun's sister looted from the southern Mallawi museum during riots by supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi. The 32...

Germany's four-decade weekly TV date with murder - 12/09/2013

BERLIN, Marie Julien- Another Sunday evening, another crime. More than 10 million Germans regularly tune in for the hit TV whodunnit "Tatort" whose popularity with its down-to-earth plots spanning...

For guard, Mandela was both prisoner and father figure - 12/08/2013

CAPE TOWN, Justine Gerardy- As a rookie prison guard reporting for his first day on Robben Island, Christo Brand was told he was about to meet the biggest criminals in South Africa's history. Now he...

'Fever' in Milan as La Scala opera season opens - 12/08/2013

MILAN- Milan's La Scala opera house opens its 2013/2014 season on Saturday with a performance of Giuseppe Verdi's "La Traviata" on the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth. Italy's economic and...

Susan Boyle reveals she has Asperger's - 12/08/2013

LONDON- Scottish singer Susan Boyle revealed on Sunday that she has been diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, a high-functioning form of autism. Boyle, a 52-year-old church volunteer who became a global...

Live 'Sound of Music' woos TV viewers, disappoints critics - 12/07/2013

LOS ANGELES- US television network NBC's one-night live revival of the venerable Broadway musical "The Sound of Music" pulled a respectable 18.5 million viewers, but it failed to thrill the critics....

Young American sings classical Arabic music, wows audiences - 12/06/2013

ZOUK MOSBEH, Mohamad Al Ghandour- Young American Jennifer Grout doesn't speak a word of Arabic, but has taught herself to sing the Arab world's best-known, most difficult songs, and could even win...

UNESCO adds new entries to 'intangible heritage' list - 12/06/2013

BAKU- Traditional Japanese washoku cooking methods, Korean kimchi-making, millennia-old Georgian wine-producing techniques and the Mediterranean diet were among 14 new entries added to UNESCO's...

US losing silent film heritage, report finds - 12/05/2013

WASHINGTON- More than two-thirds of silent movies shot in the United States between 1912 and 1929 no longer exist, says the Library of Congress in a report Wednesday underscoring an urgent need to...

Katy Perry puts Twitter army on standby - 12/05/2013

UNITED NATIONS- Pop queen Katy Perry says she is the world's Twitter leader because she does not preach and she is ready to unleash her "terrifying" social media army. Perry has a record 48 million...
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