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Pluto-bound spacecraft to be woken from hibernation 06 Dec 2014 - 11:38 pm

CAPE CANAVERAL: After nine years and a journey of 4.8bn km, Nasa’s New Horizons robotic probe will be woken from hibernation to begin...

Sam Smith, Taylor Swift lead early Grammy nominations 06 Dec 2014 - 03:07 am

Pop star Taylor Swift (left) and British soul-pop artist Sam Smith perform during the 42nd American Music Awards in Los Angeles, California. LOS...

Nasa’s Orion tests future of manned spaceflight 06 Dec 2014 - 03:06 am

CAPE CANAVERAL: A new US space capsule, Orion, circled the Earth twice before plunging into the ocean yesterday in a flawless test flight...

Mona Lisa may have been Chinese 04 Dec 2014 - 01:43 am

People taking photos of a chocolate-made Mona Lisa painting at the Chocolate Happy Land in Shanghai. An Italian historian’s theory that Mona Lisa...

Miss Fashion 2014 30 Nov 2014 - 10:00 pm

Miss Fashion 2014 and Miss Supranational USA 2014, Allyn Rose (second left); second placed Miss Supranational Belarus, Kristina Martsinkevich (right), third placed Miss...

Child’s play 30 Nov 2014 - 01:38 am

An artiste leads a bear as a child sits on it during the first day of a fair organised by GUM departmental store...

Here’s Napoleon! 30 Nov 2014 - 01:37 am

History enthusiasts, dressed as soldiers, fight during the re-enactment of Napoleon’s famous battle of Austerlitz near the southern Moravian town of Slavkov u...

Art finds its edge on Italy’s social faultlines 29 Nov 2014 - 12:59 am

A painting on a wall of the Metropoliz Museum of the Other and the Elsewhere, which is also home to 200 squatters. ROME:...

Lebanese ‘giant of poetry’ Said Aql dead at 102 29 Nov 2014 - 12:58 am

BEIRUT: Lebanese poet Said Aql, whose work was loved by Arab readers but who hated Arabism so much that he invented a latinised...

Macy’s parade 29 Nov 2014 - 12:50 am

A Snoopy balloon floats down Central Park West during the 88th Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York. Giant balloons, a signature...

Selfie sticks could bring jail term in South Korea 28 Nov 2014 - 09:00 am

A couple use a ‘selfie stick’ to take a photo overlooking the city skyline of central Seoul. SEOUL: That selfie stick in your...

Rare, first Shakespeare edition found in France 26 Nov 2014 - 04:32 am

LILLE: A copy of William Shakespeare’s First Folio, the first-ever compilation of the Bard’s plays published in 1623, has been discovered in the...

Christmas at Kew 26 Nov 2014 - 04:31 am

A woman and her son pose for photographs during the launch event of the “Christmas at Kew” lights in Kew Gardens in southwest...

Facebook ‘newspaper’ spells trouble for ailing news media 24 Nov 2014 - 01:30 am

WASHINGTON: Facebook’s move to fulfil its ambition to be the personal “newspaper” for its billion-plus members is likely to mean more woes for...

Jumbo tea party 23 Nov 2014 - 01:27 am

Wild elephants along with newborns cross a tea garden to enter a paddy field in Sonitpur district of Assam, about 300km from Guwahati...

Adolf Hitler’s painting sold for €130,000 to Mideast buyer 23 Nov 2014 - 01:23 am

The watercolour painting which was supposedly painted by Adolf Hitler, is shown at an auction house in Nuremberg in East Germany. The work...

Life no easier with Oscars, says Waltz 23 Nov 2014 - 01:22 am

LOS ANGELES: For nearly three decades, Austrian-born Christoph Waltz (pictured) was a jobbing actor in Europe. He finally came to Hollywood in 2009,...

‘Muslim Miss World’ winner calls for free Palestine 22 Nov 2014 - 02:13 am

Winner of the 2014 World Muslimah Awards, Fatma Ben Guefrache of Tunis holds her trophy in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, yesterday. A computer scientist, Fatma...