Florence, Italy: Leonardo da Vinci, the painter of the "Mona Lisa" and a symbol of the Renaissance, was only half-Italian, his mother a...
Florence, Italy: Leonardo da Vinci, the painter of the "Mona Lisa" and a symbol of the Renaissance, was only half-Italian, his mother a...
Paris: More than a million artworks were put up for auction for the first time in 2022 despite a gloomy global economy, according...
NEW YORK: You can see right through this little aquarium fish from Thailand: Its skin is almost completely transparent. But when the light...
San Francisco: Advances in artificial intelligence are coming so hard and fast that a museum in San Francisco, the beating heart of the...
Salzburg: It takes as long to train to be a puppeteer at the world-famous Salzburg Marionette Theatre as it does to become a...
The Hague: At first glance it seems to be just a modern take on Johannes Vermeer's masterpiece "Girl with a Pearl Earring". But...
Nairobi: Two portraits of Albert Einstein hang on the walls of a makeshift laboratory on Nairobi's outskirts, inspiring a pair of self-taught Kenyan...
NEW YORK: Global progress on women's rights is "vanishing before our eyes," UN boss Antonio Guterres warned on Monday, saying the increasingly distant...
Tokyo: The author of a sci-fi manga about to hit shelves in Japan admits he has "absolutely zero" drawing talent, so turned to...
Paris: With a death toll standing at more than 50,000, the massive earthquake that struck Turkiyeand Syria on February 6 and its numerous...
Often the external beauty of animals can deceive us and make us think they are harmless and friendly, but some of them can...
Tokyo: The AI programme ChatGPT has passed exams, penned news articles and produced code. So perhaps no surprise that "One Piece" author Eiichiro...
Tokyo: A new Haruki Murakami novel will be published in April and the publisher is saying little about it except that the Japanese...
Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia: From a makeshift studio in a cramped apartment in North Macedonia's Skopje, Satja Grabuloski has made his mark...
Tokyo: With her wide eyes and demure smile, Licca-chan is known as "Japan's Barbie". And her appeal is spreading to all ages, with...
NEW YORK: Doctors, lawyers, celebrities: There's a new cosmetic surgery, of sorts, that has snared them all. By that, we mean handing over...
Japan’s ailing vending machine industry is looking to indulgences like caviar and fresh sashimi to stymie its decades-long decline. Aided by the pandemic...
Santiago: Chilean Barbara Hernandez, who became the first person recorded to have swum 2.5 kilometers (1.5 miles) in the near-freezing Antarctic Ocean, says...
