NEW YORK: A celebrated 1881 portrait by French Impressionist Edouard Manet smashed the record for the artist when it sold for $65.1m at...
NEW YORK: A celebrated 1881 portrait by French Impressionist Edouard Manet smashed the record for the artist when it sold for $65.1m at...
SINGAPORE: A luxury pet hotel featuring air-conditioned suites, spa services and gourmet meals was unveiled yesterday in Singapore, further raising the level of...
PARIS: Australian writer Lily Brett (pictured) yesterday won France’s Prix Medicis literary award for best foreign book for Lola Bensky, a novel drawing...
A fan of Dominican-born fashion designer Oscar de la Renta leaves messages of condolence in the window of a store carrying his brand...
Nik Wallenda walks a tightrope more than two city blocks and 600 feet in the air across the Chicago River from the Marina...
TOKYO: Hello Kitty, Japan’s global icon of cute, marked her 40th anniversary yesterday with a human-size version of the feline character regaling fans...
Vilnius: Lithuania yesterday enacted a ban on selling energy drinks to anyone under 18, in what officials in the Baltic country claimed was...
A hippopotamus catches a pumpkin during Halloween celebrations in the Tiergarten Schoenbrunn zoo in Vienna yesterday. Once a year the animals in the...
THE HAGUE: A Dutch-based student yesterday unveiled a prototype of an “ambulance drone”, a flying defibrillator able to reach heart attack victims within...
TURIN: The only existing self-portrait by Italian master Leonardo da Vinci is to make a rare appearance in a new exhibition in Turin...
Google’s Vice-President Alan Eustace is seen wearing a specially designed pressurised space suit as he prepares to make a record-breaking skydive from the...
LOS ANGELES: The storm over Renee Zellweger’s (pictured) new-look face has thrown the spotlight on one of Hollywood’s eternal questions: how do you...
Los Angeles: When David Henderson was 10 years old, he spent a day with his mother at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in...
Chocolate Christmas-inspired figures by US artist Paul McCarthy are displayed at the Monnaie de Paris (Paris Mint) as part of his exhibition “Chocolate...
PARIS: Rarely have a man and his hat been so linked in the collective imagination as Napoleon and his black, two-cornered hat. Next...
NEW YORK: One of the few remaining examples of Apple Inc’s first pre-assembled computer, Apple-1, sold for $905,000 at an auction here on...
Animation character Doraemon arrives with children on the red carpet for the 27th Tokyo International Film Festival opening ceremony yesterday. TOKYO: Hello Kitty...
Moroccan horsemen perform during the 7th edition of the “Salon du Cheval” (horse show) in the port city of El Jadida.
