WELLINGTON, Neil Sands- For decades, New Zealand has campaigned for museums to repatriate the mummified and heavily-tattooed heads of Maori warriors held in collections worldwide -- now it must...
WASHINGTON- Former US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld says in a new memoir that his biggest regret was not stepping down after the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, US media reported Thursday....
PARIS, Richard Ingham- Archaeologists voiced deepening concern on Thursday after fresh street battles erupted around Cairo's Egyptian Museum housing the gold sarcophagus of King Tutankhamun and other...
LOS ANGELES- Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger will strut his stuff at the Grammys this month, joining music stars including Lady Gaga, Eminem and Katy Perry already lined up, organizers announced...
ROME, Eleanor Ide- Italian researchers who specialise in resolving art mysteries said Wednesday they have discovered the disputed identity of the model for Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa -- and...
WASHINGTON, Karin Zeitvogel- The red swimsuit that Charlie's Angels star Farrah Fawcett wore in her iconic 1976 poster has joined president Abraham Lincoln's tophat and Superman's cape at a...
TOKYO- A renowned Japanese pianist on Tuesday announced plans to break his own Guinness world record by playing all 212 of composer Frederic Chopin's solo piano pieces at an 18-hour concert in...
LOS ANGELES- Exorcism thriller "The Rite" cast out its demons to reach the top of the North American box office in its debut weekend, industry figures showed Monday.
The Anthony Hopkins horror...
LOS ANGELES, Michael Thurston- British historical drama "The King's Speech" got a new boost in the race for Oscars glory Saturday, as its director won a key prize in a weekend of Hollywood awards....
CAIRO- Two mummies from the Pharaonic era exhibited at the Cairo Museum were badly damaged during a robbery attempt staged during street protests, the head of the museum's antiquities department said...
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