ROME: So versatile were Leonardo da Vinci's talents in art and science and so boundless his visionary imagination, he is known to the...
ROME: So versatile were Leonardo da Vinci's talents in art and science and so boundless his visionary imagination, he is known to the...
NEW DELHI: The young American, paddling his kayak toward a remote Indian island whose people have resisted the outside world for thousands of...
Vatican City: Pope Francis on Friday revealed the organising team for a special meeting on the protection of children next February, in response...
BANGKOK: The creator of a low-cost house made of bamboo to tackle the chronic shortage of affordable housing in the Philippine capital has...
Bangkok: Superstition and looking for luck are a part of daily life in Thailand. In one temple in central Bangkok, visitors hope to...
PARIS: A portrait of Michael Jackson as King Philip II of Spain and an Andy Warhol print are among artworks on display at...
Utrecht: When a musical legend dies, a tribute can often be heard ringing out from the most unexpected of places: the tallest church...
Mosul: For centuries, it was a magnet for artists across the region and churned out Iraq's best musicians -- but recent years saw...
BOSTON: The latest crop of American Rhodes scholars has more women than any other single class. The Rhodes Trust announced Sunday the 32...
Marilyn Monroe's Golden Globe Award sold for a record-breaking $250,000 at Julien's Auctions in Beverly Hills, California, auction officials said late Saturday. The...
NEW YORK: The Statue of Liberty's original torch, which has been housed in the base of the statue since a replica replaced it...
Madrid: Uruguayan poet Ida Vitale, 95, on Thursday won the Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious literary award in the Spanish-speaking world, Spain's Culture...
LONDON: What single word best captures the tone of the past year? Oxford Dictionaries says it's "toxic." Oxford University Press monitors changes in...
TAIPEI: Chen San-yuan turns heads as he cycles through a suburb of Taipei, Taiwan's capital. The reason why? Attached to the front of...
JAKARTA: Archeologists discovered a series of 40,000-year-old cave paintings, oldest known figurative art, in the Indonesian island of Borneo. The paintings were found...
London: Babies laugh as they both exhale and inhale, in a manner that is remarkably similar to non-human primates, says a new study...
New York: Earth’s global ocean water may have originated from both asteroidal material and gas left over from the formation of the Sun,...
KROKOS, Greece: Every autumn, Zisis Kyrou is more often found plucking flowers in northern Greece's purple saffron fields than in his office as...
