Arts

Past haunts former K.Rouge fighter at genocide museum - 11/21/2010

PHNOM PENH, Suy Se- Stumbling across the photo of his twin brother who died more than three decades ago was the last thing former Khmer Rouge fighter Uch Sokhon expected on a visit to Cambodia's...

Vatican says condoms acceptable only in 'exceptional' cases - 11/21/2010

VATICAN CITY, Ljubomir Milasin- Anti-AIDS campaigners welcomed Sunday an easing of the Catholic Church's blanket ban on condoms, saying comments by Pope Benedict XVI marked an historic break with the...

Britain's Prince Charles hints at 'Queen Camilla' - 11/20/2010

WASHINGTON- Prince Charles has said for the first time that his wife Camilla could be crowned queen, reopening a debate over the status of the woman he married eight years after the death of Princess...

Yale University to return Machu Picchu treasures: Garcia - 11/20/2010

LIMA- Peruvian President Alan Garcia said Yale University of the United States had promised to return to Peru thousands of archeological artifacts taken from Machu Picchu a century ago. "Yale...

Carla Bruni: now a comic book heroine - 11/20/2010

VANCOUVER, Deborah Jones- Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, world-famous as France's first lady and as a model and singer, has now been "immortalized" -- as a comic-book heroine, an American publisher said....

Ghosts of the past: photo fair looks to ex-Soviet east - 11/20/2010

PARIS, Emma Charlton- A decrepit satellite dish points skyward from a deserted radio outpost that once broadcast from the West to the Communist bloc: ex-Soviet Europe is star guest at a top...

New exhibit for 65th anniversary of Nuremberg trials - 11/18/2010

NUREMBERG- The actual dock where Hermann Goering and other top Nazis sat in the Nuremberg trials features in a new exhibit opening this weekend in the same courthouse, exactly 65 years on. The...

Romania criticises Hungary director over concert dispute - 11/18/2010

BUCHAREST- Romania on Thursday criticised a Hungarian director for cancelling a concert to mark Romanian national day, accusing him of bowing to pressure from a far-right group, the foreign ministry...

UNESCO cultural heritage list swells to 229 - 11/18/2010

NAIROBI- The UN now considers more than 200 cultural practices from all over the world as "intangible" world treasures after adding 51 candidates to its list, officials said Wednesday. The United...

Sphinx-lined road unearthed in Egypt - 11/16/2010

CAIRO- Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a sphinx-lined road in Luxor that led to the temple of Mut, the ancient goddess worshipped as a mother, the culture minister said on Monday. Faruq...
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