When in London, take a page from a favorite book
Walking toward the George Inn on a drizzly evening, yellow light from its bustling Parliament Bar spilling out on wet cobblestones, it's easy to ...
Dogs cross species barrier, help cheetahs survive
It may sound like a doomed love story, but some dogs love big cats. Cheetahs are the fastest mammals in the world, but they also are the world's ...
As Carnival fever seizes Rio, some seek escape
As samba queens get final touch-ups on their sequins and feathers and hundreds of thousands of revelers take command of Rio's streets for Carnival's ...
London 'Micrarium' aims to showcase tiny animals
They're minuscule, there are millions of them, and one museum manager says they're massively under-represented. Jack Ashby, who is in charge of the ...
Prized Bosnian cultural relic won't show in NYC
Officials in charge of Bosnia's national monuments said Wednesday they rejected an offer by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art to exhibit one of ...
British Museum puts art from the Ice Age on show
The art world loves hype. Works are touted as the biggest, the rarest, the most expensive. Even in an age of superlatives, the British Museum has ...
Iranian space official: Photo shows wrong monkey
One of two official packages of photos of Iran's famed simian space traveler depicted the wrong monkey, but a primate really did fly into space and ...
Twain then, us now, on Italian time travel trip
I came to Italy to test a French adage by way of an American writer, Mark Twain. "Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose." The more things change, ...
Holocaust items put on display for remembrance day
When Stella Knobel's family fled World War II Poland in 1939, the only thing the 7-year-old girl could take with her was her teddy bear. For the next ...
Lawyer: No proof to charge Romanians for art theft
A lawyer for three Romanians accused of stealing valuable paintings from a museum in the Netherlands insisted Friday there was insufficient evidence ...
Rebellious Macedonian village stages carnival
The tiny Macedonian town of Vevcani boasts its own constitution, its own currency and a passport emblazoned with a golden coat of arms. They are a ...
Poland's National Museum expands modern art wing
Poland's National Museum in Warsaw has opened an expanded gallery devoted to 20th- and 21st-century Polish art, with officials hailing it as the most ...
US museum's Grace Kelly exhibit set for October
The James A. Michener Museum is making plans for a royal visit later this year from Monaco's Prince Albert. Museum Director and chief executive Lisa ...
History vs. history as China plans to rebuild past
In a corner of old Beijing, the government may soon be both destroying history and remaking it. District officials want to re-create a piece of ...
In London, Carmelo Anthony praises Knicks owner
If MSG chairman James Dolan is listening to what Carmelo Anthony has to say in London, he'll probably be happy to hear it. Two days after the Newark ...
Spanish tourist visitors up by 1 million in 2012
The number of tourists visiting recession-stricken Spain rose by one million people, or 3 percent, in 2012. Industry, Energy and Tourism Minister Jose ...
Beaches, bombs and gangsters _ Corsica's dilemma
The bombs exploded across hundreds of miles of Corsican coastline, gutting two dozen villas nearly simultaneously on some of Europe's most beautiful ...
Vatican surprised by bank's credit card block
A senior Vatican official says he is "truly surprised" that the Bank of Italy ordered credit card payments suspended in the tiny city-state and ...
Getty museum to return ancient artifact to Sicily
The J. Paul Getty Museum said Thursday it plans to return to Sicily a terra-cotta head depicting the Greek god Hades after determining it was ...
US art museum returns ancient water jug to Italy
An art museum in Ohio is handing over an ancient water jug to the Italian government after investigators determined that it was likely illegally dug ...
5 free things to see and do in Lisbon, Portugal
For anyone considering a trip to a European city, Lisbon perhaps isn't a destination that springs immediately to mind. The Portuguese capital's ...
It's 'cash only' now for tourists at the Vatican
It's "cash only" now for tourists at the Vatican wanting to pay for museum tickets, souvenirs and other services after Italy's central bank decided ...
South Africa: Mandela convalesces, legacy secure
South Africa's agonizing past swept over Alex McLaren, who stepped into sunlight with tears in his eyes after a tour of the Apartheid Museum, an ...
Communist palace draws pop stars and presidents
Twenty-three years after communism collapsed, the Palace of the Parliament, a gargantuan Stalinist symbol and the most concrete legacy of ex-dictator ...
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