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Bolivia opens the "Evo Museum"

Bolivia on Thursday opened a $7 million museum dedicated to President Evo Morales and indigenous peoples in Morales’s birthplace of Orinoca high up in the deserts of the Bolivian…

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Trump gets his wall

A tourist attraction in Hamburg, Germany that features miniature models of various parts of the world has put up a wall around the United States, in a dig at President Donald Trump’s plan to build a f

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Art and Cinema, Dimitrije Popovic and Transmedia in Rendez-vous

Explore European culture in Rendez-vous

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'Gold' a throwback to the golden age of Hollywood

Matthew McConaughey confirms his flexibility in the role of a prospector desperate for a lucky break.

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Postcards from Uzbekistan: the Chashma Ayub mausoleum

The Chashma Ayub mausoleum was built over a famous, ancient spring in Bukhara

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The best of Arts and Culture in Europe and the World

Aussie impressionists Impressionism is not the preserve of the French or indeed Europeans.

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Translating Trump: How the president's language may pose policy problems

Beyond the insults and inflammatory rhetoric Donald Trump's grammar may make understanding the presidency and policy harder in the future.

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Sustainable and hi-tech fashion at Berlin's Green and Ethical Fashion Show

Off the shoulder dresses, flower prints in varying colours.

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Team USA takes gold at 'Chef Olympics' in France

Like a professional athlete winner Mathew Peters, trained five days a week, up to twelve hours a day for the gastronomic battle.

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Japan end 19-year wait for home-grown sumo grand champion

For the first time in 19 years Japan have a Sumo Grand champion.

United Arab Emirates

Exhibition celebrates Africa and UAE's rich shared history

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Dior's Maria Grazia Chiuri unveils collection at Paris Fashion Week

Dior’s first female creative director, Maria Grazia Chiuri, was the star turn at Paris fashion week as she launched her haute couture collection.

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London gallery hosting 'first history of the selfie exhibition'

The first exhibition to explore the history of the selfie opens at a London art venue this spring.

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The Best of Arts and Culture in Europe and in the World

The Art of Gesture in London The 40-year-old London International Mime Festival is the longest running of its kind.

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Robert Wilson lights up the Panza Collection at its home near Milan

The Panza collection is one of Europe's most important post-war treasure troves of art, and American artist Robert Wilson has been called in to light the pieces in a show at the collection's home, the

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Postcards from Uzbekistan: the Lyabi-Hauz complex

The Lyabi-Hauz complex and its large artificial pond is a popular spot in the heart of Bukhara

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South Korea: a fish out of water

Locals and tourists braved below freezing temperatures to take part in South Korea’s Sancheoneo ice fishing festival on Saturday (January 14).

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Making a song and dance for Elvis Presley

With an air of Las Vegas glamour, thousands of people took to the streets of the rural Australian town of Parkes on Saturday (January 14) to honour entertainer Elvis Presley in the town’s 25th annual

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Europe's first underwater museum opens in Lanzarote

British artist Jason DeCaires Taylor has created what is the first underwater museum in Europe.

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Soviet vs Hollywood visions of 2017 compared

We take a look at the contrasting visions of 2017 from Arnold Schwarzenegger's "The Running Man" and Soviet Film strip, "In the year 2017". One portrays a capitalist dystopia, the other a communist ut