In museum-rich Paris, the Dapper Museum is amongst the least spectacular. It has an unremarkable fa

To many, the massive concrete barrier separating Israel from Palestine is as reviled as the Berlin wall. It could turn out to be the world

Some of the oldest words in the English language were probably used by our ancestors in the stone age. Mark Pagel of the Reading University in the UK believes that words such as

March 27: The AP Congress Committee has lodged a complaint with the AP High Court that the Campaign for Housing and Tenural Rights (CHATRI), a voluntary organisation, has been misusing law to intimidate and extract benefits from it.

The APCC president, Mr D. Srinivas, submitted an affidavit to the court pursuant to a notice issued by it in connection with the Bhimraobada land controversy.

Simon Thorne

Over 90 less known and unprotected monuments in the Capital will sport a new look before the 2010 Commonwealth Games as the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) has started conserving and documenting the heritage structures which would be major tourist attractions during the mega-sporting event.

A machine gun barrel to fashion dainty dragonfly? Sounds absurd? But graduates of Baghdad University

Social sciences are vastly neglected in the country. So it

A German medical museum will return the skulls of nine Namibians killed in uprisings against German colonial forces between 1904 and 1908. It will also return the skulls of 18 Australian aborigines that were taken from the continent more than a century ago. The skulls are part of a sprawling but poorly organized anthropological collection at the Medical History Museum at Berlin

The software giant IBM has opened online doors to a virtual version of the famed Forbidden City in China that for centuries served as an exclusive realm for the country