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Brazil

Dance demonstration: Brazilians samba to protest against funding cuts

Sashaying through the streets, Brazilians danced the samba to demonstrate against Carnival funding cuts.

18/06/2017

USA

Kiss frontman Gene Simmons wants to trademark "devil horns" gesture

Kiss frontman Gene Simmon's bid to trademark the hard rock "devil horns" salute as his creation is being ridiculed

17/06/2017

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Taking dance to new heights

Home of the arts Greece gave the world drama and poetry, and now it is taking dance to places never dreampt before

13/06/2017

Living

Humorous sensuality with Stefanie Renoma

Sublime creatures posing in an erotic/chic atmosphere inhabit the photographic world of Stefanie Renoma, @stefanierenoma.

11/06/2017

Sweden

The Museum of Failure: when products are so bad, they're good

07/06/2017

USA

Chuck Berry rocks on from beyond the grave

Chuck Berry's long-delayed new studio album, originally begun in 1979, is finally released three months after his death

06/06/2017

World News

Rock 'n' roll legend Ronnie Wood turns 70

Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood will tour with the band from September.

01/06/2017

Belgium

Traveling the world with Steve McCurry

30/05/2017

Cinema

'Patti Cake$': Jersey girl turned rapper

The movie got a standing ovation at its latest screening in Cannes.

30/05/2017

United Kingdom

This Scottish duo plans to literally walk around the world

On the morning of Tuesday, March 7 29-year-old Paul Whatley and his dog Brett left their home town of Dunbar in Scotland to engage in the adventure of a lifetime: walking around the…

30/05/2017

United Kingdom

Dancing pandas and walking trees welcome royals to Chelsea Flower Show 2017

25/05/2017

USA

'Star Wars' saga turns 40

25/05/2017

Cult

Films, music, nature and beaches: Cuba's lesser-known east

Around 700 km south east of Havana lies Holguín, Cuba’s third largest city.

19/05/2017

France

Cannes film festival welcomes Palme d'Or jury

The jury were welcomed with a festive and musical atmosphere for 70th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, chaired this year by the Spanish director Pedro…

17/05/2017

Romania

Abandon all good taste, ye who enter the Romanian Museum of Kitsch!

In the old historical centre of the Romanian capital, Bucharest, there is a new tourist attraction: the Romanian Kitsch Museum.

16/05/2017

Cult

How artists are keeping the ancient practice of Theyyam alive

The ritual form of worship involves traditions that some say date back as far as neolithic times.

10/05/2017

Belgium

Down but not out: the curious case of Belgium's graffiti ghost town

Doel, a small town in northern Belgium, is slowly vanishing as a place to live but finds itself being reinvented as an open-air museum.

09/05/2017

Focus

Extremists’ prey - the young and vulnerable

Why makes some youth join extremist groups and how can terrorist recruitment be thwarted? The 4th World Forum on Intercultural Dialogue investigates.

08/05/2017

Europe News

European 'history house' opens this weekend

It was meant to have been open in 2014, but now the House of European History finally opens its doors to the public this weekend.

04/05/2017

Sweden

Sweden: revellers have a spring in their step on Walpurgis Night

Every April 30, thousands of people gather in parks and other open spaces across Sweden to celebrate Walpurgis Night, or Valborg, the day that marks official arrival of…

01/05/2017