Sunday 23 November 2008
New Qatar museum opens with a message
The new Museum of Islamic Arts in the Qatari capital houses 800 artistic and historical treasures from the 17th to the 19th centuries. Just as important: the museum aims to show that Islam is a religion of "tolerance", not "terrorism".
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- DOHA
- New Qatar museum opens with a message
- Sunday 23 November 2008
- The new Museum of Islamic Arts in the Qatari capital houses 800 artistic and historical treasures from the 17th to the 19th centuries. Just as important: the museum aims to show that Islam is a religion of "tolerance", not "terrorism".
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- CELEBRITIES
- Madonna and Guy Ritchie granted speedy divorce
- Friday 21 November 2008
- Film director Guy Ritchie and singer Madonna are no longer husband and wife, after a London High Court judge officially granted their divorce, barely a month after the "Queen of Pop" filed for it.
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- FASHION
- Designers pioneer pattern of change
- Thursday 20 November 2008
- Two execptional women are turning fashion on its head: Sakina M'sa has opened ateliers in some of Paris's less wealthy neighbourhoods in a bid to link fashion with rehabilitation, while the creations of Karine Bouillard are decorated in braille.
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- INTERNET - HUMOR
- A flying YouTube circus as Monty Python hits back
- Thursday 20 November 2008
- After years of being "ripped off" by YouTube users, the Monty Python comedy troupe has launched a counter attack and posted its own channel on the popular video-sharing platform.
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- FRANCE - CULTURE
- Veil joins Académie Française
- Thursday 20 November 2008
- At age 81, activist Simone Veil has been elected to the Académie Française, the centuries-old body that acts as guardian of the French language.
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- JAPAN - WINE
- France's famous Beaujolais goes global
- Thursday 20 November 2008
- As the French wine-producing town of Beaujeu celebrated the arrival of 2008's vintage of the now famous "Beaujolais nouveau", Japanese fans welcomed the wine in their own way: by bathing in it.
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- INTERNET
- LIFE magazine puts all its images online
- Wednesday 19 November 2008
- Iconic US magazine LIFE has decided to put over 10 million images, representing all of its archive, online at Google images. According to TIME Inc., LIFE's parent company, 97% of the images have never been shown to the public before.
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- AUCTION
- Tintin author's nephew to auction private correspondence
- Wednesday 19 November 2008
- The nephew of 'Herge', author of the comic-book boy reporter Tintin, will auction off some of his uncle's sketches, photos and letters in Paris on Friday, a Belgian newspaper has reported.
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