Arts

Iraq unearths ancient gold coins - 01/08/2013

KUT, Iraq- Iraqi archaeologists have found 66 gold coins that are at least 1,400 years old, officials said on Monday, adding that they hope to put them on display in Baghdad's National Museum. The...

Stolen Matisse turns up in Britain - 01/08/2013

The team at the Art Loss Register quickly identified the painting as the one stolen from the Swedish museum on May 11, 1987, when a burglar broke in with a sledgehammer and made off with the artwork...

Take a hip hop lesson, 'a la francaise' - 01/08/2013

PARIS, Emma Charlton- Celine Lefevre doesn't come from the ghetto, she's white, and female. Not your typical rapper. But when she tells the story of hip hop in a snap, crackle and pop of a dance...

Brad Pitt sets Chinese social media astir - 01/08/2013

BEIJING- Hollywood heartthrob Brad Pitt made waves on Monday with his first post on Chinese social media, a cryptic message suggesting he would soon visit the country. "It is the truth. Yup, I'm...

'First' Afghan female rapper seeks reason with rhymes - 01/07/2013

KABUL, Sardar Ahmad- Sporting a long leather coat and western jeans under a headscarf, Soosan Feroz looks like many modern women in Kabul. But she is a surprising new phenomenon in this conservative...

Depardieu checks out possible new Russian homeland - 01/07/2013

MOSCOW, Anna Smolchenko- French actor Gerard Depardieu, who has threatened to forsake his homeland for Russia to avoid massive new taxes, travelled Sunday to the central region of Mordovia where he...

'Texas Chainsaw 3D' cuts 'The Hobbit' down to size - 01/07/2013

LOS ANGELES- Slasher flick "Texas Chainsaw 3D" stole the top slot at the North American box office this weekend, driving "The Hobbit" from its three-week perch in first place, estimates indicated...

Opera stars Gheorghiu, Alagna to get divorce - 01/06/2013

BUCHAREST- Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu announced Thursday that she and French-Italian tenor Roberto Alagna were getting a divorce, in an interview with Mediafax news agency. "We have decided...

Britain's 'Secret Cinema' smashes through the screen - 01/06/2013

LONDON, Maureen Cofflard- Under the menacing eye of guards, the cinema-goers sit in silence as their 1950s bus rumbles through London. Suddenly, a prison looms out of the darkness. Welcome to Secret...

Nureyev's legacy in spotlight, 20 years on - 01/05/2013

PARIS, Marie-Pierre Ferey- Twenty years after his death, Rudolf Nureyev's legacy still lights up the world of ballet as brilliantly as the flamboyant performances which once illuminated the greatest...
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