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A Darling of Pop Culture, But Not Museums
Jean-Michel Basquiat enjoys a stratospheric following -- earlier this year, a 1982 oil painting by the late 20th...
Fire, Smoke and Metal At North Korea Steel Plant
A crane moves a giant bucket brimming with 40 tonnes of molten steel towards a gangway in North Korea's Chollima Steel...
Mumbai Building Collapse Death Toll Rises To 17
Rescuers stepped up a desperate bid Wednesday to find victims buried under the rubble of a collapsed building in Mumbai...
Hong Kong Maids Lured By Islamic State Recruiters
Indonesian maids working in Hong Kong are being radicalised by extremists from the Islamic State group, a security...
Britain Makes Pitch For Massive Australia Warship Contract
Britain's defence secretary Wednesday made a strong push to build Australia's next fleet of warships, saying the...
Motorsports Boom In China
Trailing enormous plumes of dust, the Silk Way rally cars tore through the Gobi Desert bound for China's Imperial city...
EU Court To Rule On Hamas Terror Listing
The EU's top court rules Wednesday on whether Islamist movement Hamas should be taken off the bloc's terror black list,...
Vietnam’s Dissident Footballers Take Aim At Politics
A group of old pals trot onto the pitch for what looks like an ordinary football match in Vietnam. But it is actually a...
Off Namibia, An Underwater Diamond Harvest
A vast mechanical monster rises from the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Namibia, leaving a huge swell in its wake as...
White House Hails Israel For Removing Holy Site Metal Detectors
The White House welcomed Israel's decision to remove metal detectors from a highly sensitive Jerusalem holy site on...
Rwanda Targets High-End Tourist Market
Nicaraguan singer Hernaldo Zuniga brought his entire family to trek through the lush forests and mist-shrouded...
Quirky US-French Museum To Offer Night On Orient Express
Visitors to a quirky rail museum in France's Burgundy region, the brainchild of US entrepreneur Gregory Marshall, will...
Roma Withstand Tottenham Fightback In 3-2 Friendly Win
Roma withstood a dramatic, late Tottenham comeback to send the Premier League team to their first defeat of this...
Myanmar’s Rohingya Abandoned After Rapes
Rohingya Muslim Ayamar Bagon has lived on handouts since her husband left her after she told him she was gang-raped by...
Adam Peaty Targets 50m Breaststroke Record Yet Again
Britain's Adam Peaty warned the men's 50m breaststroke world record could fall again in a fierce battle over the sprint...
Prominent Australian Aboriginal Singer Gurrumul Dies At 46
World-renowned indigenous singer Gurrumul has died after a "long battle with illness" aged 46, his management said...
Trump’s Bid To Rally Base Marked By Protests
Fresh from a rare legislative victory, Donald Trump tried to shore up ebbing popular support Tuesday at a raucous rally...
Barbara Sinatra, Last Wife of Frank Sinatra, Dies At 90
Former model Barbara Sinatra, a humanitarian activist who was Frank Sinatra's last wife, died Tuesday in California,...
Cardinal Pell Denies Abuse Charges In Australian Court
Vatican finance chief Cardinal George Pell, a top advisor to Pope Francis, denied all charges of historical sexual...