NEW YORK, UNITED STATES- The Christie's auction house in New York will offer for sale one of Claude Monet's celebrated "haystack" paintings, valued at an estimated $45 million, which should reconfirm...
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN- More than 24 hours after awarding Bob Dylan the Nobel prize for literature, the Swedish Academy said Friday they had still not managed to speak to the reclusive US singer. "The...
MILAN, ITALY- Crowds of mourners flocked Friday to pay their respects to Italy's Nobel prize-winning dramatist Dario Fo, whose flower-adorned coffin lay in state in a theatre in Milan. A lay ceremony...
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, Maureen Cofflard- Leonardo DiCaprio has issued an impassioned call for immediate action on climate change in "Before the Flood", a documentary film making its European...
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES- Solange, the funk singer who has long endured comparisons with superstar sister Beyonce, on Sunday earned her first number-one album with an innovative and introspective work...
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN, Camille Bas-Wohlert- Literary circles are abuzz with speculation ahead of Thursday's Nobel Literature Prize announcement, with award watchers suggesting this year's honours could...
EDINBURGH, UNITED KINGDOM- The first biography of Adolf Hitler which presented him as "Germany's saviour" and compared him to Jesus may have been written by the future dictator himself, a Scottish...
HOORN, NETHERLANDS, Jan Hennop- The Dutch city of Hoorn erupted with joy Friday as it welcomed back five masterpieces recovered from a "criminal group" in Ukraine after being snatched from the town's...
PARIS, FRANCE- Donald Trump has no chance of winning the US presidential election, best-selling US writer Douglas Kennedy has told AFP -- but if he did, he would be an "American Mussolini". "Trump...
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES- The 4.3 million annual visitors to the Statue of Liberty -- that most recognizable symbol of American freedom -- will be greeted by a modern multimedia museum in future, New...
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