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Video installations and electronica are entrancing the heaving dance floors this weekend in a top Spanish festival fusing music, technology and the visual arts. Barcelona’s Sonar festival, which started on…
20/06/2015 / Comments Off on Art and electro music fuse in Spain’s Sonar festival / Read More
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18/06/2015 / Comments Off on Muslims worldwide mark the start of Ramadan – Month of prayer, dawn-to-dusk fasting and nightly feasts / Read More
PARIS: The opportunity to score points by bashing FIFA, Russia and Qatar was too good for the parliamentarians to pass up. One by one, they lined up to take shots.…
18/06/2015 / Comments Off on Is it worth making enemies of Russia, Qatar over football? / Read More
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis said yesterday that those who “close the door” to refugees seeking a safe haven in Europe should ask God’s forgiveness, as tensions rose in the EU…
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17/06/2015 / Comments Off on Russia cites ‘threats’ as nuclear arsenal boosted – US warns against return to ‘Cold War status’ / Read More
PARIS: French Prime Minister Manuel Valls stressed yesterday there was no link between extremism and Islam, as he opened a conference aimed at improving ties with France’s large Muslim community.…
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MADRID: Activists from the Indignados (Outraged) protest movement that grew out of Spain's economic crisis took power in the country's two biggest cities yesterday after thrashing the ruling conservatives in…
13/06/2015 / Comments Off on ‘Outraged’ Spanish mayors take power in Madrid and Barcelona / Read More
ARBIL: High heels, fatigues and gold rifle-shaped rings-singer Helly Luv's blend of bang and bling has made her the most popular cheerleader for the Iraqi Kurds' war against jihadists. She…
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NIZHNY TAGIL: It has a remote-controlled turret, it bristles with state-of-the-art defense systems and its computerized controls make driving it feel "like playing a video game." Russia's Armata tank, which…
12/06/2015 / Comments Off on Russia begins high tech military modernization – Tank controls feels like a video game / Read More
ALCOUTIM: Rather than turn into a ghost town, one Portuguese village facing an exodus of young adults and dwindling birth rates came up with an answer: pay parents 5,000 euros…
11/06/2015 / Comments Off on Shrinking Portuguese town turns to ‘cash-for-babies’ / Read More
A small Czech village has become a centre of the global boom in retro records as antiquated vinyl-pressing machines turn out the tunes of rock stars from Madonna to the…
10/06/2015 / Comments Off on Czech village spins retro vinyl records comeback / Read More
Watercolour paintings and drawings by Adolf Hitler from about 100 years ago are to go up for auction in southern Germany this month, an auction house said Tuesday. Some of…
10/06/2015 / Comments Off on Watercolours by Hitler to go under the hammer in Germany / Read More