VATICAN CITY, Catherine Jouault- Curious art lovers who visit the Vatican Museums can now witness the restoration, until recently carried out behind closed doors, of some of the gallery's most prized...
PARIS, Myriam Chaplain-Riou- France's best-known writer Michel Houellebecq won its top literary prize Monday for a best-selling satire of art and celebrity, fans hailing it as an overdue honour for...
MADRID- Americans cleaned up at the MTV Europe Awards in Madrid on Sunday, as Lady Gaga picked up three top prizes and awards crowned Katy Perry, Canadian teen idol Justin Bieber and half a dozen US...
RIYADH- Saudi officials on Sunday announced the discovery of the country's first-ever artefact from pharaonic culture -- a 3,100-year-old inscription carrying the signature of King Ramses III.
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TEL AVIV, Gavin Rabinowitz - Former Playboy playmate and "Baywatch" star Pamela Anderson says she wants Israel's Ultra-Orthodox men to go topless -- by not wearing their traditional fur hats.
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NEW YORK- US actress Jill Clayburgh, who was twice nominated for Oscars for her portrayals of independent women, died of leukemia on Friday, the New York Times reported. She was 66.
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LOS ANGELES- A new album by Michael Jackson is to be released next month, including never-before-heard songs by the self-styled King of Pop before his death last year, his record company said...
UNITED NATIONS- Internet-savvy movie stars Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher on Thursday launched an assault on what they called the "dirty little secret" of women who are traded for sex online.
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JERUSALEM- Israel suspended cooperation with UNESCO on Wednesday to protest at the cultural organisation's description of the tomb of the biblical matriarch Rachel, near Bethlehem in the West Bank,...
MADRID- Spanish-Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, this year's Nobel Literature laureate, condemned the "consequences of colonialism" by European countries when he presented his new novel in Madrid...
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