CAIRO – Egypt’s top prosecutor seized all the funds of ousted leader Hosni Mubarak and his family on Monday and banned them from travel abroad, the latest humiliation for the once-powerful family. It comes a day after authorities prevented Mubarak’s wife and son from flying out of the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. During [...]
A pagan revival is under way in Rome, at least in the Forum area. Emperor Nero will be commemorated in the Italian capital in an exhibition opening on April 1. Moreover, in the Roman Forum, the ”convent” of the pagan Vestal Virgins has just been reopened after 25 years of restoration. And Italian shoe magnate [...]
British Airways has taken one of its Boeing 747 jumbo jets out of service after a passenger complained she was bitten by bed bugs during a flight. Business executive Zane Selkirk, 28, who lives in California, said she had been bitten during two flights recently, from Los Angeles to London on January 28 and Bangalore [...]
The home of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle is the “most flirtatious city” of the modern world, a new study showed on Monday. Athens topped a “World Flirtation League,” which ranked cities by the number of online flirtations initiated per month by the average user in each on online social networking site Badoo.com. Moscow came second, [...]
If you’re a diehard Michael Jackson fan just itching to exercise your artistic license, you’re in luck. Sony Music, along with Jackson’s estate, will soon be launching the Behind The Mask video project, which asks fans to contribute to a new music video for the song. The project kicks off on March 7, at which [...]
Two time capsules have been discovered underneath a statue damaged in the quake, as the nation prepares to mark one week since the tragedy struck. The time capsules were discovered in Cathedral Square under the plinth of a statute of John Robert Godley, which was damaged in the quake. One was a small glass capsule [...]
LOS ANGELES – These were supposed to be the younger, hipper Academy Awards, the ones that shook up the ceremony’s conventions with popular, great-looking masters of ceremonies in actors James Franco and Anne Hathaway, who were unlike the middle-aged comedians and TV talk-show hosts of years past. But the results couldn’t have been more traditional, [...]
SERANG, Indonesia (AFP) – Hidden cameras have captured proof that Javan rhinos are breeding in Indonesia’s Ujung Kulon National Park, the last redoubt for the endangered mammals, conservationists said Monday. Footage of two adults with two calves was taken in November and December last year by cameras hidden in the jungle of the rhino sanctuary [...]
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