ROME- An Italian court on Friday handed a life sentence in absentia to a former German army corporal for the wartime massacre of 117 Italian officers on the Greek island of Cephalonia that inspired a...
LONDON, Beatrice Debut- The first fair of contemporary African art outside Africa opens in London on Wednesday, a testament to the growing market for works rooted in the social and political...
LONDON, James Pheby- New Zealand author Eleanor Catton on Tuesday became the youngest winner of the Man Booker Prize for fiction, claiming the award for her novel "The Luminaries". Catton, 28, picked...
BERLIN- The German penchant for order and stability stems from the country's divided, chaotic history, the Goethe Institute cultural organisation said in a short video. "Germany was divided into...
PARIS- When one of a country's most brilliant artists has just died, is it appropriate for a government minister to point out that the heavy smoker succumbed to lung cancer? That was the question...
GHENT, Claire Rosemberg- Split, stolen, even stashed in a salt mine, one of the world's most mythical oils, Flemish masterpiece "The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb", is undergoing its most ambitious...
STOCKHOLM, Peter Harmsen- Canada's Alice Munro won the Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday for her short stories that focus on the frailties of the human condition, just the 13th woman to win the...
LONDON- Hollywood star Tom Hanks opened the London Film Festival on Wednesday with his new film "Captain Phillips", based on the true story of a ship attacked by Somali pirates. The 57-year-old will...
NEW YORK CITY- The preservation of monuments in Syria and Mali pose some of the biggest challenges on a list of 67 global sites that need protection, a foundation warned Tuesday. Unveiling its watch...
Rome, Abdul Rahman Bitar-The colossus composer in Italy, Giuseppe Verdi, was born 200 years ago on 10 October 1813 and one of his fans, the master conductor Riccardo Muti is celebrating this occasion...
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