JUBA, Peter Martell- Yellowing papers, nibbled by termites and dumped on piles waist high, crowd the sweltering-hot giant tent: the raw documents that make up the history of the world’s newest nation...
BETHLEHEM, Gavin Rabinowitz - The Palestinians on Monday made a formal bid to have the no-longer-so-little town of Bethlehem, birthplace of Jesus Christ, added to UNESCO's list of World Heritage...
BERLIN- An unusual Berlin museum exhibition combining reindeer, canaries, mice, magic mushrooms and a dash of Hindu mysticism drew nearly 100,000 visitors during its three-month run, organisers said...
MADRID- Spain's Prado Museum and Russia's Hermitage Museum will swap works, including masterpieces by Goya and Rembrant, as part of a cultural exchange between the two nations, the galleries' bosses...
KARACHI, Jennie Matthew- Pakistan has hosted one of the world's youngest and fastest-growing literary festivals, a showcase of new talent where writers urged citizens to reverse the tide of Islamist...
LONDON- Celebrated rock guitarist and former Thin Lizzy star Gary Moore was found dead in a Spanish hotel room Sunday, the band's manager confirmed.
Moore, 58, started out in Irish band Skid Row...
SIMI VALLEY- Ronald Reagan's widow Nancy laid a wreath for her husband Sunday on the 100th anniversary of his birthday, in an emotional celebration of the former US president's life.
Making a rare...
DAMASCUS- Syrian film director Omar Amiralay, who made documentaries critical of the ruling Baath party, died on Saturday in Damascus of a heart attack at the age of 67, his friends and family said....
TEHRAN, Farhad Pouladi- Two top Iranian directors urged the judiciary to reduce the sentence handed down to their fellow filmmaker Jafar Panahi when speaking at a local film festival, a report said...
LIMA- Mario Vargas Llosa, the 2010 Nobel laureate for literature, thanked Spain's King Juan Carlos I on Friday for making him a marquis, but said he was born a commoner and would die one, too....
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