Egypt agrees to a preliminary deal with Ethiopia on a new dam project that Cairo feared would hamper the flow of the Nile, the river on which it depends.
Leaders from Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan signed a cooperation deal Monday over a giant Ethiopian hydroelectric dam on a tributary of the river Nile, in a bid to...
In 1857, bushy-whiskered Emperor Franz Joseph proclaimed that his rapidly growing imperial capital Vienna needed a radical makeover befitting Austro-Hungary’s...
Great swirls and loops of blue and brown paint coil across the canvas likes ribbons or plumes of smoke.
A woman with pink trousers, matching pink hair and green arms lies face down on a bed.
The influence of Arab, African and Asian art on Henri Matisse is the theme of a major collection of the French artist’s work that has gone on show in Rome.
The foreign ministers of Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia said early on Friday they had reached the basis of an agreement on the sharing of Nile waters and...
Decades after being stolen, an ancient statuette and an 18th-century painting were returned to the Italian government Tuesday after turning up in New York.
Cheered by her famous family, Victoria Beckham brought a sexy vision of fall-winter to an intimate New York runway show Sunday and confided plans to open a...
Singer Carla Bruni, actress Catherine Deneuve and burlesque performer Dita Von Teese were among regulars attending the spectacular displays at Paris’ haute...
The Sursock Museum has been officially out of action for eight years, a long time by any measure. For many, though, its absence has been felt for much longer.
A much-delayed $1.8 billion dam project under construction along Ethiopia's Omo river could begin generating power by June and be fully operational by early...
Morocco has banned cinemas from showing the biblical epic “Exodus: Gods and Kings” just one day before the Hollywood blockbuster was due to be screened,...
In a seminar last month at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London University, the author and professor Abbas Milani mused over why the...
A regional government in southern Spain has filed a complaint with Roman Catholic Church authorities over what it believes are church moves in recent years to...
The vaulted ceilings and thick stone pillars of Ada Dodge Hall find unexpected echoes in the enormous white sculptures that fill the space this winter, ghosts...
An Italian historian’s theory that Mona Lisa might be a Chinese slave and Leonardo da Vinci’s mother – making the 15th-century polymath half-Chinese – has...
Patricia Rahme traveled to Italy two years ago to get away from the stresses of working in advertising, only to end up embarking on an adventure that led to...
Jihadism is flourishing. Tensions with Russia are flaring.
It isn’t to everyone’s taste, and animal rights activists wish the custom would vanish entirely, but anyone who ever fancied eating foie gras – fattened goose...