Arts
France’s Angoulême comics fest to celebrate Charlie Hebdo cartoonists’ work
The Angoulême International Comics Festival in France, one of the world’s largest comics festivals, opened Thursday under tight security in the...
'I'm not an enemy': Moscow exhibit showcases Gulag letters
Written on cigarette packs or scraps of newspaper, embroidered with a fishbone on shreds of cloth or scratched on birch bark, clandestine letters from...
Epoxy boo-boo: Ancient King Tut mask damaged by cleaners, gets a clumsy fix
The blue-and-gold braided beard broke off from the golden mask of famed pharaoh Tutankhamun during cleaning, then was hastily glued back on with epoxy,...
Tutankhamun’s beard ‘knocked off and stuck back on with resin’
The blue and gold braided beard on the 3,300-year-old mask of pharaoh Tutankhamun was hastily glued back on with resin, causing massive to the relic after...
Beard of Egypt’s King Tut hastily glued back on with epoxy
The blue and gold braided beard on the golden mask of famed pharaoh Tutankhamun was hastily glued back on with epoxy, damaging the relic after it became...
Yves Saint Laurent snubs London for exhibition in stylish… Durham?
Britain’s first exhibition dedicated to the legendary French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent will be hosted at Bowes Museum in County Durham.
Washington DC under attack - Sharknado 3 to be set in the U.S. capital
Tara Reid and Ian Ziering has confirmed they will return for a third battle with flying sharks. In the first two Sharknado films the actors’ characters...
Despite Golden Globe, Russian ‘Leviathan’ still on the shelf at home
Russian drama “Leviathan” made history by becoming the first film from the country to win a Golden Globe since the fall of the USSR but has...
'Blue Dog' painting recovered hours after being stolen in New Orleans
A painting by the late Louisiana artist George Rodrigue that depicts him as a blue dog beside his bride on their wedding day was recovered undamaged hours...
Who am I? What is life? Author Haruki Murakami to the rescue
Worried about your future, the meaning of life or the realness of unreal things? Ask Japanese author Haruki Murakami for enlightenment – or as much as...
Mark Zuckerberg starts a book club and invites 30 million others to join
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced (on his page) that he will read a book every other week in 2015, with an emphasis on learning about...
'Turkey's Liberace': gay icon celebrated at hugely popular Istanbul show
Touted as the “Turkish Liberace,” late singer Zeki Muren adored women’s clothes, outrageous makeup and was held up as a gay icon –...
Snail mail to blame for the greatest debacle in the history of the Nobel prize
A letter sent by French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre in 1964 declining the Nobel Prize for Literature came too late to avert one of the biggest debacles...
Sir Paul McCartney slams ‘ridiculous’ Beatles university course
Sir Paul McCartney says it is “ridiculous” that The Beatles are now the subject of a university course as he doesn’t think becoming a pop star is...
Joe Cocker, iconic rock singer, dies at 70
The raspy-voiced, Grammy-winning singer Joe Cocker, best known for his cover of the Beatles’ “With A Little Help From My Friends” and...
A series of tremors has Florence concerned for ‘David’
More than 250 minor tremors have rattled the Florence region over the past three days, sparking alarm in Italy over the safety of Michelangelo’s...
Daniel Craig spotted filming Spectre - the new James Bond film - in London
Daniel Craig has taken to the water in London to shoot the first scenes for the 24th James Bond film, Spectre.
Native American sacred masks sold in France despite protests
Some 250 sacred Native American, Eskimo and pre-Colombian artefacts went under the hammer in France on Monday despite strong opposition from the Navajo...
Return of the king: Colossal statue of Amenhotep III unveiled in Egypt
Archaeologists on Sunday unveiled a restored colossal statue of Amenhotep III that was toppled in an earthquake more than 3,000 years ago at Egypt’s...
Families turning up in droves to claim priceless stolen Nazi artworks
A task force investigating the art found in a Nazi-era collection said Friday it had received more than 200 queries about specific works by possible heirs.
Nobel Laureate leaves 3,000 books to country that once banished her
A year after her death, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Doris Lessing is still giving back to Zimbabwe, the country whose former white rulers banished her...
Loss of face: Picasso’s ‘Visage’ silver plate stolen from Miami art show
A silver plate crafted by Pablo Picasso and valued at $85,000 was stolen in Miami just as one of the world’s premier art festivals kicked off, police...
Ayn Rand novel ‘Ideal’ to be published in July 2015
An Ayn Rand novel written, temporarily shelved and later published as a play is finally being released in its original form. The New American Library,...
Revealed: 24th Bond movie is called Spectre and filming starts next week
The 24th James Bond movie will be called Spectre and filming will begin next week, director Sam Mendes has announced.
Was Mona Lisa Chinese? Italian’s theory raises eyebrows
An Italian historian’s theory that Mona Lisa might be a Chinese slave and Leonardo da Vinci’s mother - making the 15th-century polymath half-Chinese...
Dancing, singing, evangelizing: ‘I (heart) Pope Francis’, the musical
Filipino priests sing and dance in a new musical based on the life of Pope Francis that aims to draw more young people to the church in Asia’s largest...
The stormtrooper strikes back: Get used to seeing black soldiers in Star Wars
British actor John Boyega, who plays a stormtrooper in the new Star Wars film, has hit back at racist comments made after the release of the first trailer.
Venezuela debuts a ballet commemorating the life of Hugo Chavez
Supporters of Venezuela’s former leader Hugo Chavez are turning to the musical arts to help immortalise his exuberance.
Brazil’s Capoeira, Estonia’s saunas, nomadic yurts make world heritage list
Brazil’s Afro-style Capoeira fight and dance, Estonia’s medieval tradition of smoke saunas and the nomadic yurts of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan...
Queen of crime writing P.D. James dies aged 94
British detective writer P. D. James, the creator of the best-selling series featuring poetry-writing sleuth Adam Dalgliesh, died on Thursday at the age...
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