Russia`s troubled republics produce many of the world`s best wrestlers because the sport hones the instincts for human survival, according to a coach with the Australian team here at the Beijing ...

Russia`s troubled republics produce many of the world`s best wrestlers because the sport hones the instincts for human survival, according to a coach with the Australian team here at the Beijing ...

Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, on the run from death threats from Islamic militants, has returned to India to renew her visa, a rights activist said Saturday

Hundreds of people staged a protest outside the former summer retreat of late dictator Francisco Franco during the wedding Friday of his great-grandaughter, demanding the palace be opened to the ...

VIENNA, August 6, 2008 (AFP) - A tram called Israel has begun touring Vienna's city centre with films, photos and food, in a bid to paint a different picture of the small country than what is regularly seen on the news.

ROME, August 5, 2008 (AFP) - Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government was roundly slammed Tuesday by art lovers, experts and historians for covering the breast of a female nude in a reproduction of a famed Italian painting.

LONDON, August 4, 2008 (AFP) - The traditional British pint of ale is undergoing a revival, despite pub beer sales sinking to their lowest level since the 1930s Great Depression.

Long since muscled out by the mass-produced lagers of international brewing giants, the darker, less fizzy styles of beer are making a comeback.

KINSHASA, August 3, 2008 (AFP) - Thousands of Congolese packed into a stadium in the capital Kinshasa Sunday to pay their final respects to the country's best-known musician, Papa Wendo, who died on July 28 aged 83.

Among the mourners were senior government figures, parliamentarians, diplomats, artists, fellow musicians and ordinary Congolese.

NEW YORK, July 28, 2008 (AFP) - New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) showcases the inspiration the Big Apple exerted on the world's top architects in the 1970s through a collection of drawings, projects and scale models reflecting both the pragmatic and utopian views of the city.

LONDON, July 28, 2008 (AFP) - A pint of beer may be an official 'Icon of England', but sales have sunk to the lowest level in Britain since the Great Depression of the 1930s, according to figures released on Monday.