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First photos from the Moon under the hammer in Den...
The first NASA photographs taken on the Moon, including the first shot of an "Earthrise" and Buzz Aldrin walking on the surface, w...
UK court stages mistaken world debut of Ed Sheeran...
Diehard Ed Sheeran fans would pay good money to hear his unreleased material, but attendees at a high-profile copyright trial inad...
K-Pop's BTS back for first Seoul show after thrivi...
South Korean supergroup BTS return to the stage in Seoul to play for their adoring home-grown fans for the first time since 2019 o...
Solemn Paris Fashion Week draws to a close
Paris Fashion Week, which ends on Tuesday, has been over-shadowed by the war in Ukraine, with designers struggling for ways to bal...
'The bottom line': Scuba divers help preserve hist...
A 200-year-old Chinese mansion in Bangkok's heart isn't an obvious place for a scuba school, but in a city relentlessly demolishin...
Lanterns light the way as Basel carnival comes bac...
Revellers in fancy costumes lit up the freezing streets of Basel in the early hours of Monday as Switzerland's biggest carnival re...
British firm acquires entire catalog of folk icon...
British song management firm Hipgnosis said Sunday it has acquired the entire catalog of famed Canadian singer-poet Leonard Cohen,...
Not for the faint-hearted, Taliban embrace buzkash...
The announcer roared over the public address system as a lone rider separated from a melee of horses and galloped towards a chalk...
UK woman on 11-year mission to reproduce Bayeux Ta...
Curled up on her sofa in the east of England, former teacher Mia Hansson carefully adds another stitch to her life-size reproducti...
To fight its war, Russia closing digital doors
Russia's blocking of Facebook is a symptom of its broader effort to cut itself off from sources of information that could imperil...
Facebook blocked as Russia backs jail time for 'fa...
Russia on Friday blocked Facebook and moved to impose harsh jail terms for publishing "fake news" about the army as part of effort...
McCartney, Eilish, Lamar to headline Glastonbury
Paul McCartney and US rapper Kendrick Lamar will join Billie Eilish to headline the UK's Glastonbury festival when it returns in J...
Russia backs jail time for 'fake' army news, restr...
Russian lawmakers approved legislation Friday to impose fines and harsh jail terms for publishing "fake news" about the army -- th...
Russia says 'limiting' sites of BBC, Deutsche Well...
Russia's media watchdog said Friday it had restricted access to the BBC and other independent media websites, tightening controls...
'Woven air': Bangladesh revives elite forgotten fa...
With wooden spinning wheels and hand-drawn looms, Bangladesh is painstakingly resurrecting a fabric once worn by Marie Antoinette...
Google Maps and Tripadvisor nix war news in review...
Google on Thursday said it has stopped allowing reviews to be added to its online Maps service in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine to p...
Courtney Love settles Kurt Cobain guitar murder pl...
US singer Courtney Love has settled a lawsuit with her ex-son-in-law over claims she planned to kill or kidnap him in a dispute ab...
Marilyn Manson accuses Rachel Evan Wood of conspir...
Marilyn Manson on Wednesday filed court proceedings against his ex-fiancee US actress Rachel Even Wood -- who has accused the goth...
Auctioneer Sotheby's sees double benefit to crypto...
Sotheby's auction house is almost three centuries old but its top brass want to embrace the cutting edge of technology and all of...
Cairo's newspaper vendors go silent as sales colla...
Newspaper sellers were once a dime a dozen on Cairo's bustling streets, but now the vendors hawking hot-off-the-press editions hav...
Ukraine official Twitter-shaming firms to action o...
Ukraine's vice prime minister has been calling out big tech companies by name on Twitter to push them to penalize Russia over its...
Collective of US states investigate TikTok's impac...
A consortium of US states announced on Wednesday an investigation into TikTok's possible harms to young users of the platform, whi...
Kim Kardashian divorce from Kanye West finalized
Reality TV star Kim Kardashian officially became single again on Wednesday, after a Los Angeles judge finalized her divorce from r...
Record sale for Magritte at London auction: Sotheb...
"L'Empire des lumieres" was sold for £59.4 million ($79.4 million, 71.4 million euros) in London on Wednesday, shattering the reco...
Amazon opens Luna video game streaming to anyone i...
Amazon launched its Luna video game streaming service for the general public on Tuesday in the United States, aiming to expand its...
Dior unveils 'protective' clothing for a time of c...
Dior's show at Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday struck a sombre tone, with designer Maria Grazia Chiuri telling AFP her focus on comb...
UK's 'festival of Brexit' begins, without national...
A creativity festival to celebrate British ingenuity after Brexit, conceived before the pandemic, kicks off on Tuesday with projec...
Putin-friendly French actor Depardieu objects to...
French actor Gerard Depardieu, a friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin, on Tuesday came out against the war in Ukraine and ca...
Music world shuns Russian maestro Gergiev over Put...
One of Germany's top orchestras fired Russian maestro and Kremlin loyalist, Valery Gergiev, as its chief conductor on Tuesday afte...
Japan's Maezawa to sell Basquiat estimated at $70...
Japanese billionaire space tourist Yusaku Maezawa is putting one of his Basquiat artworks up for sale, an auction house has said,...
A yak at the Oscars: first nomination for Bhutanes...
Filmed in one of the remotest corners in one of the world's most inaccessible countries, "Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom", is the...
At Met Opera, a balancing act between the traditio...
The Metropolitan Opera in recent years has taken steps to draw in new opera-goers with more modern works, this year launching its...
Twitter to label tweets linking to Russian state m...
Twitter will put warnings on tweets sharing links to Russian state-affiliated media, the platform said Monday, as Kremlin-tied out...
TikTok videos get longer in challenge to YouTube
TikTok on Monday began letting users upload videos as long as 10 minutes, ramping up the young platform's challenge to veteran tit...
Paris Fashion Week kicks off in glamorous but 'sol...
The stars came out for the opening night of Paris Fashion Week on Monday, which looked set for a return to pre-pandemic normality...
Paris Fashion Week kicks off in 'solemn' wartime m...
Two years on from France's first pandemic lockdown, Paris Fashion Week is almost back to full attendance, but the war in Ukraine l...
Neil Diamond sells complete catalog to Universal
Neil Diamond, the hitmaker behind "Sweet Caroline" and "Red Red Wine," sold his complete publishing and master recordings catalogs...
Paris concert hall cancels star Russian conductor
The prestigious Philharmonie concert hall in Paris became the latest arts institution to bar star Russian conductor Valery Gergiev...
French art star Messager opens Tel Aviv retrospect...
French artist Annette Messager, a global star whose retrospective opens in Israel on Tuesday, says her work has been changed by th...