Paris Franz
Digital Journalist based in London, United Kingdom.
Joined on May 22, 2010
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New York -
Edvard Munch's iconic portrayal of modern anxiety in his painting called "The Scream" has sold at auction for a record-breaking $119,922,500.
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Greek authorities have reopened the Bronze Age site of Akrotiri to the public, seven years after a roof collapse killed a British tourist.
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London -
A ban on the use of hosepipes in eastern and south-eastern England has been enacted after two of the driest years on record.
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The Turkish government is asking major US museums to return artifacts it says were looted from archaeological sites in Turkey.
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London -
Crowds gathered in London's Trafalgar Square on Saturday afternoon to show solidarity with the ongoing revolutions sweeping across the Middle East.
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Paintings from the art collection of actress Elizabeth Taylor have attracted substantial prices at this month's impressionist and modern art sale at Christie's in London.
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Yangon -
Myanmar's election commission has approved democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi's plans to run for election in April's parliamentary poll.
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Phnom Penh -
The Khmer Rouge tribunal supreme court has increased the sentence of the former chief of the notorious Tuol Sleng prison to life.
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A US court has decided the $500 million treasure recovered in 2007 from the bed of the Atlantic should be returned to Spain.
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London -
London's West End theatres posted record-breaking box office figures in 2011 for the eighth consecutive year, with ticket sales of over £528 million.
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London -
The City of London Festival kicked off in fine, quirky style on Sunday June 26, 2011 with a tribute to Australian composer Percy Grainger on the festival's street pianos.
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London -
More than 60 cars drove from the seaside resort of Brighton, on England's south coast, to London on Saturday 6 November 2010 in the inaugural Future Car Challenge.
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London -
England's river Thames has won the world's largest environmental prize. Once a biologically dead river, it is now a thriving waterway, complete with salmon, otter and sea trout populations.
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London -
Leading Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has carpeted the Turbine Hall of London's Tate Modern with 100 million hand-painted porcelain sunflower seeds.
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London -
The grande dame of London's luxury hotels, the Savoy, re-opened on 10 October 2010, after an ambitious three year, £220 million refurbishment.
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London -
Police searching the home of a missing man believed to work for the secret intelligence service (MI6) have found a man's body in a bag.
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The wrecks of three British warships sent to battle a Soviet and German takeover of the Baltic states after the Russian Revolution have been found off the coast of Estonia.
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London -
The Victoria and Albert Museum in London will mount a major exhibtion on the work of Sergei Diaghilev and the pioneering dance company the Ballets Russes from 25 September 2010 to 9 January 2011.
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The UK's Environment Agency has begun work on a project to transform an East Sussex farm into a haven for coastal wildlife and endangered species.
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Warming seas may be responsible for a shift in the distribution of dolphin species, as warm water species are reported in increasing numbers in the normally cold waters off England's north-east coast.
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