Washington: What happens when an artist who devoted most of his career to painting landscapes and still lifes turns to the people he...
Washington: What happens when an artist who devoted most of his career to painting landscapes and still lifes turns to the people he...
Suddenly, America is on the march. Saturday's March for Our Lives, planned for Washington and hundreds of other locations, is just the most...
LONDON: The sweeping fields of flowers that fill the canvases at Zhuang Hong Yi's new London exhibition are more than just depictions of...
Mosul, Iraq: Perched atop a mound of rubble, Abdelsattar al-Hibbu surveyed what remained of his second-floor office: twisted iron and centuries-old stone reduced...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.: Oscar Zeta Acosta, a volatile Mexican-American writer who was the real-life inspiration for Hunter S. Thompson's Dr. Gonzo in "Fear and...
Dubai: A rare gold watch once owned by Egypt's King Farouk is expected to fetch $400,000 to $800,000 when it auctions this week...
PARIS: Alain Robert, sometimes known as the "French Spiderman" for climbing skyscrapers world worldwide, is still defying gravity at the age of 55....
Lyon, France: The fossilised skeleton of an unidentified type of dinosaur is set to be auctioned in Paris in June, and could fetch...
Singapore is the world’s most expensive city for the fifth straight year in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s latest Worldwide Cost of Living report,...
London: The world-famous British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, who died on Wednesday at the age of 76, was known as much for his...
Melbourne: Decked out in brightly-coloured costumes and watched on by thousands of cheering spectators, competitors carrying homemade flying devices leapt off a platform...
Islamabad: Engulfed in a blizzard at 6,000 metres, Denis Urubko screamed into the vast darkness on Pakistan's "killer mountain" -- then, through the...
Sydney: A message in a bottle written 132 years ago and found on an Australian beach by a group of walkers including the...
COLUMBUS: After 10 years in hotel management, Khaled Bahgat grew accustomed to defusing tense situations involving out-of-control banquet hall parties. Often, he had...
Paris: French fashion brand Lacoste on Wednesday swapped the crocodile logo on its shirts for the first time in its history for 10...
Hong Kong: An extremely rare Qing Dynasty bowl -- one of only three known to exist -- is expected to fetch US$25.6 million...
Karachi, Pakistan: When British colonial rulers hastily left South Asia at Pakistan's painful birth in 1947, the ensuing chaos and violence meant little...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., James Dean's cherry-red jacket from "Rebel Without a Cause" is expected to bring up to $600,000 when it goes...
