Arts

Scientists find tiny new bat species: Geneva museum - 06/24/2009

GENEVA - Scientists have identified a new species of bat weighing just five grammes in the Comoros island archipelago off eastern Africa, the Natural History Museum in Geneva said on Wednesday....

UNESCO meets to decide new World Heritage - 06/24/2009

MADRID - A UNESCO committee met in southern Spain Monday to decide which of 27 sites deserved to be added to its World Heritage List. The World Heritage Committee of the UN Educational, Scientific...

Albania's Ismail Kadare win top Spanish literature prize - 06/24/2009

MADRID - Albanian writer Ismail Kadare was Wednesday awarded Spain's prestigious Prince of Asturias Prize for literature as "one of the greatest European writers and intellectuals of the 20th...

The deaf lead the blind in Norwegian TV studio - 06/24/2009

BERGEN, Pierre-Henry Deshayes - In a small studio in the Norwegian city of Bergen, three colleagues put together the final edit of television shows. Nothing extraordinary, had it not been that all of...

Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick welcome twins - 06/24/2009

LOS ANGELES - Sarah Jessica Parker and actor husband Matthew Broderick have welcomed twin baby girls born to a surrogate at a hospital in Ohio, a representative for the couple said Tuesday. Local...

Malkovich, Banderas lead prize roster at Czech - 06/24/2009

PRAGUE - John Malkovich, Antonio Banderas and Isabelle Huppert will receive special prizes at the 44th Czech international Karlovy Vary film festival starting next week, organisers said Tuesday....

US television legend Ed McMahon dies at 86 - 06/23/2009

LOS ANGELES - US television legend Ed McMahon, best known for his long-running role as Johnny Carson's sidekick on "The Tonight Show", died early Tuesday aged 86, his spokesman confirmed. McMahon...

Napoleon rides again as enthusiasts re-stage Waterloo - 06/22/2009

WATERLOO, Catherine Marciano - This weekend Napoleon's great army threatened the peace of Europe once more, as 1,200 enthusiasts re-enacted the French leader's historic defeat at Waterloo. But an...

Kodak taking Kodachrome away - 06/22/2009

WASHINGTON - Kodak is taking Kodachrome away. More than 35 years after Paul Simon immortalized the color film in song, the company announced on Monday that it would be ending production of...

France fetes music - 06/21/2009

PARIS - Thousands of musicians took to the streets and stages across France on Sunday for the annual "Fete de la Musique", one of the nation's most popular festivals celebrating rhythm and sound....
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