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Tusse - from child refugee to Sweden's Eurovision Song Contest contender 12 Apr 2021 - 11:58 am

Stockholm: For Tusse, Sweden's 2021 Eurovision Song Contest contender, it felt like entering a new world coming to the Nordic country at the...

Eye candy: getting high at California's Sugar Rush theme park 10 Apr 2021 - 11:21 am

Craving for candy without the calories? Feast your eyes on a whirl of giant lollipops, cupcakes and all things sweet at Sugar Rush,...

From stage to canvas: K-pop stars prepare for London art exhibition 09 Apr 2021 - 08:04 pm

SEOUL: In a Seoul cafe, K-pop stars Song Min-ho and Kang Seung-yoon talk through a selection of their paintings and photographs that will...

Model train rings out the tunes in record-setting pandemic project 07 Apr 2021 - 01:29 pm

Berlin: At Hamburg's Miniatur Wunderland museum, shut during Germany's coronavirus lockdown, a Model train chugs along a track lined with thousands of water-filled...

A gift of chocolate from Queen Victoria, intact after 121 years 05 Apr 2021 - 03:30 pm

London: A 121-year-old chocolate bar, from a batch commissioned by Queen Victoria for British troops fighting in South Africa, has been found in...

Ronaldo armband sold for over $75,000 to help toddler surgery 02 Apr 2021 - 06:31 pm

BELGRADE: The captain's armband which Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo threw away angrily during a World Cup qualifier against Serbia was bought by a betting...

Nike wins halt to further sales of Lil Nas X 'Satan Shoes' 01 Apr 2021 - 08:57 pm

NEW YORK - A federal judge on Thursday sided with Nike Inc in ordering a Brooklyn company to temporarily stop further sales of...

Urban planning helps to reduce effects of future pandemics, achieves sustainable development goals: UN Report 31 Mar 2021 - 11:47 am

New York: A new report on pandemics and cities from UN-Habitat, points the way to how hard-hit urban centres can reduce the impact...

Carnivorous dinosaur with short snout and strong bite menaced Patagonia 31 Mar 2021 - 11:19 am

WASHINGTON: Scientists in Argentina have unearthed the well-preserved skull of a meat-eating dinosaur that roamed northern Patagonia about 85 million years ago -...

Nike sues company that made 'Satan Shoes' with Lil Nas X 30 Mar 2021 - 11:26 pm

LOS ANGELES - Athletic shoe maker Nike Inc on Monday sued a New York-based company that produced "Satan Shoes" purported to contain a...

Chinese digital art mocks Western criticism of labour conditions in Xinjiang 28 Mar 2021 - 12:34 pm

Beijing: A digital illustration by a prominent Chinese propaganda artist mocking Western governments, media and businesses critical of labour conditions in Xinjiang has...

'Pain into beauty': Argentine sculptor turns pandemic waste into art 26 Mar 2021 - 02:29 pm

BUENOS AIRES: Marcelo Toledo usually creates sculptures and jewelry out of metal. Now the Argentine artist is working with a new material: waste...

Richter exhibition offers to transport homebound Swiss to new landscapes 25 Mar 2021 - 08:41 pm

ZURICH: An exhibition of German artist Gerhard Richter's landscapes offers to transport viewers at the Kunsthaus Zurich to faraway vistas even as coronavirus...

Van Gogh's 'A Street Scene in Montmartre' fetches 14 million euros at auction 25 Mar 2021 - 07:20 pm

PARIS: A Vincent Van Gogh painting of a Paris street scene, held in a private collection for over a century, sold for 14...

NFT digital artwork by humanoid robot Sophia up for auction 22 Mar 2021 - 01:45 pm

HONG KONG: Robot artist Sophia, whose first artwork goes up for auction on Wednesday, says she draws inspiration for her work from people...

Picasso, Miro as well as Banksy for sale at auction 16 Mar 2021 - 09:07 pm

LONDON - Paintings by Pablo Picasso, Rene Magritte and Joan Miro as well as Banksy's tribute to Britain's National Health Service are among...

Happy birthday Ken! Barbie's beau turns 60 11 Mar 2021 - 05:00 pm

NEW YORK - Ken, fashion doll Barbie's long-term companion, turned 60 on Thursday, celebrating the milestone birthday with a return to his original...

Ten years after disaster, Fukushima's 'singing' pottery comes home 10 Mar 2021 - 12:32 pm

Namie: Toshiharu Onoda, a thirteenth-generation potter living in a town close to the Fukushima Daiichi his nuclear plant, had just finished loading kiln...