TOKYO: Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama, whose work commands some of the highest prices of any living female artist, said on Tuesday that...
TOKYO: Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama, whose work commands some of the highest prices of any living female artist, said on Tuesday that...
Rome: From George Eliot to John le Carre, writers reaching out for the disguise or anonymity offered by a pseudonym is nothing new...
Moscow: Workers in Moscow on Friday erased the illustration of a gun from a freshly-inaugurated monument of Mikhail Kalashnikov, inventor of the legendary...
Yaoundé: Several thousand demonstrators took to the streets in English-speaking parts of Cameroon in protest at perceived discrimination in favour of the country's...
Gwangju, South Korea: Condemned to death twice for spying, Seo Ok-Ryol spent three decades in prison, most of it in solitary confinement. Now...
Cárdenas, Cuba: The humble bicycle is gradually shedding its grim association with Cuba's economic crisis that followed the fall of the Soviet Union,...
Miami: Teenagers in America today are about three years behind their counterparts from the 1970s when it comes to taking up sex, drinking...
ALMATY: When Uzbek writer Nurulloh Muhammad Raufkhon’s new book came out last year, security forces raided his home and put the author -...
Paris: The French artist JR made headlines across the world at the weekend with his huge "Kilroy was here" photograph of a Mexican...
Emerging markets including China and India could be the best bets for investors hoping to fight climate change and boost returns, according to...
New York: If US children are reared on a diet of softball, rough and tumble in the park and summer camp, then two...
LONDON: A dozen Nobel laureates, including Malala Yousafzai and Muhammad Yunus, urged the United Nations on Wednesday to use “all available means” to...
Stockholm: YouTube's most watched blogger PewDiePie apologised on Tuesday for using a racial slur while playing a livestreamed video game, saying there were...
LONDON: A British art dealer who abused his position by stealing clients’ artworks, including many paintings by Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood, was...
NEW YORK: Fashion designer Carolina Herrera, known for her timeless designs, debuted an electric, multi-color Spring 2018 collection at the Museum of Modern...
OGAKI, Japan: A Japanese civic group teamed up with a railway operator on Sunday to let some 30 cats roam on a local...
Wall Street’s newbies -- investment banking analysts straight out of college who just hit the desk -- have barely started one job when...
PARIS: Kate Millett, the activist, artist and educator whose best-selling work "Sexual Politics" was a landmark of cultural criticism and a manifesto for...
