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First went the fancy banquets, then the lavish gift-giving. Now, China’s ruling Communist Party has set its sights on a new target in its...
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In the middle of the dusty California desert, a group of Cahuilla Native Americans gather, as they have for generations, for the annual agave...
Entertainment
The scheme has been created as part of the annual CultureTECH festival and will see 200 schools and 30 libraries and community organisations receive...
World
Canada is a land of vast and rugged beauty, boreal forest, prairies and the Canadian Shield, not to mention the many coastlines. But perhaps...
World
Hundreds of thousands of green-clad revellers partied in Ireland for Saint Patrick’s Day on Tuesday, as Prime Minister Enda Kenny hit out at Irish...
World
A simple Chinese vase made over 800 years ago and unveiled in Hong Kong Monday is expected to fetch HK$60 million (US$7.7 million) when...
World
Thieves have broken in to the fabled Fontainebleau castle south of Paris and stolen 15 or so “priceless” Chinese artefacts in a lightning raid,...
Life
I love libraries! I indeed lived literally next-door to one for 17 years of my life, in my hometown, in Brittany. I clearly remember...
World
The Year of the Horse brought catastrophic international air accidents, brutal terror attacks, global political upheaval, a resurgent Ebola virus and war — and,...
World
A Brazilian samba school shrugged off a controversy over alleged funding by an African strongman president and went on to claim its 13th win...