WASHINGTON- The September issue of Playboy will include an excerpt of what the magazine claims on its cover is "The Most Scandalous Novel of All Time" -- the 19th century French novel "Madame...
CAIRO- Archaeologists have uncovered a pharaonic settlement in an Egyptian oasis that may have supplied food for troops along Saharan trade routes, Egypt's antiquities department said on Wednesday....
WARSAW- More than 150 gynaecological and surgical instruments from the Nazi German Auschwitz death camp have been found in a nearby house in Oswiecim, southern Poland, an Auschwitz museum spokesman...
LONDON- Scottish singing sensation Susan Boyle confirmed Wednesday that she would perform for Pope Benedict XVI when he visits Britain next month, saying it was her "greatest dream come true"....
PARIS- Top US art dealer Larry Gagosian, known for his eye for contemporary and modern works, is to open his first gallery in Paris in a new sign that the recently flagging Paris market is at last...
PARIS- French President Nicolas Sarkozy, currently under fire for his crackdown on Gypsies, is to be the subject of a biopic that covers his rise to power, a film agent said Tuesday.
The film...
CAIRO, Riad Abu Awad- Egypt pledged on Tuesday to implement strict measures to protect its cultural and archaeological riches after the theft of a Vincent Van Gogh masterpiece in broad daylight from...
THE HAGUE- A chestnut tree in Amsterdam that Jewish teenager Anne Frank wrote about in her World War II diary collapsed on Monday in high winds, the museum dedicated to the youthful author said....
CAIRO, Riad Abu Awad- Egypt on Monday arrested a senior culture ministry official blamed for lax security at a museum from which a Van Gogh was stolen, and also boosted security at the country's...
ALGIERS- Algerian intellectuals have signed a petition urging that a ban on Egyptian books at Algeria's international book fair be revoked, after the two countries fell out over a football match....
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