LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM- A rare collection of fairytales handwritten by J.K. Rowling as a gift to her "Harry Potter" publisher sold for nearly £370,000 at a UK auction on Tuesday. The copy of "The...
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES- Legendary singer Nina Simone, art-rock pioneers The Velvet Underground and funk great Sly Stone will receive Grammy Lifetime Achievement Awards in 2017, the Recording Academy...
SAKHNIN, ISRAEL, Majeda El-Batsh- Israeli Arab rapper Tamer Nafar's politically-charged lyrics have sparked the same kind of controversy that may have made his hero Tupac Shakur proud. Nafar, from...
SAN FRANCISCO, UNITED STATES, Frankie Taggart- It is known for movies about monsters, insects and children's toys but Pixar's latest, very human story is "a love letter to Mexico" at a time of...
THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS, Jan Hennop- A Dutch court ruled Wednesday that priceless Crimean art treasures loaned to an Amsterdam museum shortly before Russia annexed the peninsula in 2014 should go back...
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, Mohamad Ali Harissi- Therese is a Lebanese mother keen to meet her daughter's groom-to-be but she gets the shock of her life when she hears his Syrian accent....
PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC, Jan Marchal- The giant Slav Epic series by Art Nouveau icon Alfons Mucha is caught in a legal tug-of-war between the city of Prague and the Czech painter's grandson, triggered...
OSLO, NORWAY, Gaël Branchereau in Stockholm / Pierre-Henry Deshayes with Gaël Branchereau in Stockholm- Colombia's peace deal is a model for countries at war like Syria, President Juan Manuel Santos...
ALGIERS, ALGERIA- Algerian singer Mohamed Tahar Fergani, considered a master of the Arab-Andalusian musical genre, has died aged 88, Algerian media said on Thursday. Fergani, whose career spanned...
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA- The hidden secrets of Egyptian mummies up to 3,000 years old have been virtually unwrapped and reconstructed for the first time using cutting-edge scanning technology in a joint...
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