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Dutch artists stage nationwide protests against cuts

Posted by kluciole at 11/21/2010 6:30 AM | Add Comment

Ukraine's topless group Femen widens political role

Posted by kluciole at 11/15/2010 7:23 PM | Add Comment

The Desperate Romantics – as never seen before

Posted by kluciole at 11/13/2010 10:19 PM | Add Comment

Loved this! :) "Beware, you townies in the country"

Posted by kluciole at 11/13/2010 10:16 PM | Add Comment

Ancient tree to help turn Jericho into tourism hub

Posted by kluciole at 11/13/2010 10:09 PM | Add Comment

Catholic priests overwhelmed with requests for exorcists

Posted by kluciole at 11/12/2010 11:21 PM | Add Comment

Chinese workers build 15-story hotel in just six days

Posted by kluciole at 11/12/2010 10:42 PM | Add Comment

How Kids are Immune to Information Overload

Posted by kluciole at 11/11/2010 6:33 PM | Add Comment

Today, Mongolian nomads are on motorcycles, not horses

Posted by kluciole at 11/8/2010 10:08 PM | Add Comment

Art believed destroyed by Nazis found in Berlin

Posted by kluciole at 11/8/2010 9:55 PM | Add Comment

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei under house arrest

Posted by kluciole at 11/6/2010 8:21 AM | Add Comment

Russian reporter in coma after beating in Moscow

Posted by kluciole at 11/6/2010 8:16 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Exhibition brings ancient Book of the Dead to life

Posted by kluciole at 11/4/2010 2:08 AM | Add Comment

Introducing Andrew Hall, a guest blogger from "An Apple a Day." His fresh-for-Luciole entry is: "Chupacabra: From Myth to Mainstream"

Posted by kluciole at 11/1/2010 7:05 PM | Add Comment

An Iranian film wanders in an allegorical desert

Posted by kluciole at 10/29/2010 7:44 PM | Add Comment

Iwo Jima mementos bring closure to Japanese family

Posted by kluciole at 10/29/2010 7:30 PM | Add Comment

In defiance of tradition, Taiwan woman marries self

Posted by kluciole at 10/24/2010 3:17 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Oxford University's Bodleian Library receives 1,000 new books a day

Posted by kluciole at 10/24/2010 2:43 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

End of the Earth Postponed

Posted by kluciole at 10/20/2010 9:08 PM | Add Comment

Bohemian landmark NYC Hotel Chelsea up for sale

Posted by kluciole at 10/20/2010 8:51 PM | Add Comment

Israel unlikely champ in global real estate

Posted by kluciole at 10/14/2010 1:13 AM | Add Comment

New Bronze Age civilisation discovered in Russian Caucasus

Posted by kluciole at 10/11/2010 12:04 PM | Add Comment

Roman bronze helmet found in a field sells for £2.3 million; one of only three ever found in Britain, it is 2,000 years old and immaculately preserved

Posted by kluciole at 10/9/2010 8:03 PM | Add Comment

New comicbook superhero on the way, a Muslim boy in a wheelchair who has superpowers

Posted by kluciole at 9/26/2010 1:36 PM | Add Comment

Russia gives Poland more Katyn massacre files

Posted by kluciole at 9/23/2010 8:15 PM | Add Comment

Anti-immigration party formed from skinhead movement seizes balance of power in Sweden

Posted by kluciole at 9/21/2010 1:48 AM | Add Comment

Photos: 2,000-year-old Hellenistic wall paintings in a cave complex nicknamed 'Little Petra'

Posted by kluciole at 9/19/2010 7:44 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Remorseful US vet returns French war flag to Paris

Posted by kluciole at 9/19/2010 7:28 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

The curse of the blood rubies: Inside Burma's brutal gem trade

Posted by kluciole at 9/19/2010 7:23 PM | Add Comment

Art lovers enraptured by 'prehistoric' cave paintings

Posted by kluciole at 9/12/2010 9:43 PM | Add Comment

Diaries of a 19th Century Military Wife Uncovered

Posted by kluciole at 9/11/2010 1:07 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Incredible photo, plus article "Lax safety in Congo makes river travel dangerous"

Posted by kluciole at 9/6/2010 10:12 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

EU money helps Roma get jobs and fight stereotypes

Posted by kluciole at 9/6/2010 10:04 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

10,000-year-old boy's bones found in an underwater Mexican cave 'could rewrite the history of the Americas'

Posted by kluciole at 8/29/2010 5:57 PM | Add Comment

AP: In addition to success stories, "US wasted billions in rebuilding Iraq "

Posted by kluciole at 8/29/2010 5:48 PM | Add Comment

Found underneath the A1, the home of Rome's legendary lost Ninth Legion

Posted by kluciole at 8/28/2010 5:22 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

'Pregnant nun' ice cream ad faces ban in Catholic outcry

Posted by kluciole at 8/28/2010 5:17 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Silk's dark side: Uzbek kids made to grow cocoons

Posted by kluciole at 8/28/2010 5:14 PM | Add Comment

Why Do 20% of Americans Think Obama Is Muslim?

Posted by kluciole at 8/20/2010 12:22 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Experts finally solve puzzle of Roman ruins at Lullingstone

Posted by kluciole at 8/18/2010 9:47 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Fact Check: Islam already part of WTC neighborhood

Posted by kluciole at 8/18/2010 8:29 PM | Add Comment

It's official, men and women ARE from the same planet

Posted by kluciole at 8/15/2010 7:12 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Author Jonathan Schneer traces lead-up to "The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict"

Posted by kluciole at 8/11/2010 11:48 AM | Add Comment

Female circumcision victims seek out Colorado doctor

Posted by kluciole at 8/11/2010 11:40 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Israeli art show's portrayal of FM as a pig sparks protests

Posted by kluciole at 8/9/2010 7:39 PM | Add Comment

China bets future on inland cities

Posted by kluciole at 8/3/2010 5:46 AM | Add Comment

Tokyo's oldest listed person, age 113, is missing

Posted by kluciole at 8/3/2010 5:37 AM | Add Comment

TIME article: "Argentina Belatedly Celebrates a Journalist Hero"

Posted by kluciole at 8/1/2010 5:18 AM | Add Comment

Court orders 'Bookseller of Kabul' author Aasne Seierstad to pay damages

Posted by kluciole at 7/29/2010 3:11 AM | Add Comment

Rare 3D film shows Warsaw devastated after WWII

Posted by kluciole at 7/29/2010 3:04 AM | Add Comment

Baby boom for the Amish fuels expansion westward in search of new land

Posted by kluciole at 7/29/2010 2:51 AM | Add Comment

Jordanian police nab lettuce lady during protest

Posted by kluciole at 7/26/2010 1:27 AM | Add Comment

NY Times article -- "Inside the Fog of War: Reports From the Ground in Afghanistan"

Posted by kluciole at 7/26/2010 1:20 AM | Add Comment

Gadget makers forced to look at links to Congo war

Posted by kluciole at 7/25/2010 5:42 AM | Add Comment

La Mujer de las Palmas: reconstruction of 10,000-year-old skeleton found in Tulum, Mexico shows ancient population more diverse than thought

Posted by kluciole at 7/24/2010 4:44 AM | Add Comment

Sister monument to Stonehenge may have been found

Posted by kluciole at 7/22/2010 7:35 PM | Add Comment

Computers to translate world's 'lost' languages after program deciphers ancient Ugaritic text

Posted by kluciole at 7/21/2010 8:33 PM | Add Comment

Former inmates of Auschwitz, a Catholic Pole recalls daring escape to save his Jewish girlfriend

Posted by kluciole at 7/21/2010 4:28 AM | Add Comment

Women's empowerment fuel economic hopes and fashionable dreams in Pakistan's turbulent Baluchistan

Posted by kluciole at 7/19/2010 9:40 PM | Add Comment

Netanyahu says he will oppose conversion bill

Posted by kluciole at 7/18/2010 4:56 AM | Add Comment

Tiny shard bears oldest script found in Jerusalem (14th century BCE)

Posted by kluciole at 7/14/2010 11:16 AM | Add Comment

Switzerland has an 'adopt a cow' program

Posted by kluciole at 7/13/2010 1:16 AM | Add Comment

Russian curators anger church, but escape jail

Posted by kluciole at 7/13/2010 12:59 AM | Add Comment

Promises, Promises: US fails to punish Sudan

Posted by kluciole at 7/13/2010 12:51 AM | Add Comment

Archaeologists unearth 4,300-year-old Egyptian tomb of father and son at the Saqqara necropolis

Posted by kluciole at 7/10/2010 12:22 AM | Add Comment

Two articles: "Iran to review woman's stoning verdict" and "How can a nation that could soon be a nuclear power still legally stone women to death for adultery?"

Posted by kluciole at 7/10/2010 12:06 AM | Add Comment

Presbyterians: End Israel aid over settlements. "Israel's peace will not come until they seek peace with Palestinians"

Posted by kluciole at 7/10/2010 12:00 AM | Add Comment

UK treasure hunter finds 52,000 Roman coins. Circa 286 CE, they were buried in a jar and weighed 350 pounds

Posted by kluciole at 7/8/2010 9:26 AM | Add Comment

Early humans ventured farther north than thought

Posted by kluciole at 7/7/2010 3:53 PM | Add Comment

Earliest illustrated Christian bible discovered at Ethiopian monastery

Posted by kluciole at 7/6/2010 5:39 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Fireworks light the sky at Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome

Posted by kluciole at 7/3/2010 6:17 PM | Add Comment

U.S. Is Richest Nation, But Not Happiest

Posted by kluciole at 7/1/2010 11:52 PM | Add Comment

'Help us save our mother': Pleas from children of Iranian woman convicted of adultery, who faces death by stoning

Posted by kluciole at 7/1/2010 11:48 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a amiling refugee Afghan boy looks through a window in Kabul

Posted by kluciole at 7/1/2010 11:45 PM | Add Comment

Thousands of French Nazi collaborators revealed as official reports are published online

Posted by kluciole at 6/29/2010 2:44 PM | Add Comment

Greece lightning: Ancient Parthenon lit from above as storm breaks over Athens

Posted by kluciole at 6/28/2010 3:21 PM | Add Comment

Rival Hamas, UN summer camps compete over children

Posted by kluciole at 6/28/2010 3:02 PM | Add Comment

Movies that scare for life: viewers left with fears for years

Posted by kluciole at 6/27/2010 4:01 PM | Add Comment

China's young college grads toil in 'ant tribes' as they "run up against the realities of China's rapid economic ascent"

Posted by kluciole at 6/27/2010 3:51 PM | Add Comment

Racing Palestinian girls speed into record books

Posted by kluciole at 6/26/2010 9:48 PM | Add Comment

Romans killed dozens of unwanted babies at English 'brothel'

Posted by kluciole at 6/25/2010 7:07 PM | Add Comment

Oglala Lakota code talker Clarence Wolf Guts laid to rest

Posted by kluciole at 6/24/2010 6:27 AM | Add Comment

Poem: "Has My Heart Gone To Sleep?" by Antonio Machado

Posted by kluciole at 6/23/2010 5:35 PM | Add Comment

4th century icons of Peter and Paul found in Rome

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2010 6:58 PM | Add Comment

Only known photographs of French Resistance fighters facing Nazi firing squad shown for first time

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2010 12:18 AM | Add Comment

HBO works to get film on Iranian dissident Neda Agha Soltan seen by as many people as possible within Iran as anniversary of her death approaches

Posted by kluciole at 6/19/2010 1:27 AM | Add Comment

Ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan worsens; Uzbeks allege rapes, say troops let violence occur

Posted by kluciole at 6/17/2010 4:49 PM | Add Comment

Library of Congress places Bob Hope's joke file (85,000 pages) on public view

Posted by kluciole at 6/17/2010 9:24 AM | Add Comment

Israel agrees to ease Gaza land blockade

Posted by kluciole at 6/17/2010 9:18 AM | Add Comment

TIME article -- "First, China. Next: the Great Firewall of... Australia? In Western democracy first, Australia may restrict Web access"

Posted by kluciole at 6/16/2010 5:18 PM | Add Comment

Photo: local children play football at dusk in the Sun Valley township in Kagiso near Rustenburg, South Africa

Posted by kluciole at 6/15/2010 3:30 PM | Add Comment

Bloody Sunday report blames British soldiers fully; Cameron offers apology

Posted by kluciole at 6/15/2010 3:00 PM | Add Comment

Poem: "Past One O’Clock ..." by Vladimir Mayakovsky

Posted by kluciole at 6/14/2010 5:15 PM | Add Comment

Prabal Gurung: the fashion designer from Nepal who cracked New York

Posted by kluciole at 6/13/2010 10:51 PM | Add Comment

US finds mineral riches in Afghanistan: "enough to turn the scarred and impoverished country into one of the world's most lucrative mining centers"

Posted by kluciole at 6/13/2010 10:45 PM | Add Comment

Environmental damage looms in Nigerian lead crisis

Posted by kluciole at 6/13/2010 10:42 PM | Add Comment

Show unveils Andy Warhol's Catholic, abstract side

Posted by kluciole at 6/11/2010 9:20 AM | Add Comment

Hispanics abandon Arizona, fleeing economy, immigration law

Posted by kluciole at 6/11/2010 9:06 AM | Add Comment

Rare photo of slave children found in NC attic

Posted by kluciole at 6/10/2010 5:49 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a model presents a creation by Mel Simon at Haute Caribbean night during Fashion Week Trinidad and Tobago

Posted by kluciole at 6/9/2010 9:50 AM | Add Comment
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