Saint-Tropez, France - French film sensation Brigitte Bardot, a symbol of sexual liberation in the 1950s and 1960s who reinvented herself...
- New York, United States - A self-portrait by legendary Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold for $54.66 million in New York...
Dubai, United Arab Emirates -- Rory McIlroy was on Sunday crowned the DP World Tour’s Race to Dubai champion for...At the Earth course of Jumeirah Golf Estates on Sunday, Fitzpatrick (66) made a birdie on the 72nd hole of regulation play to set the mark at 18-under par.
It is Fitzpatrick’s third DP World Tour Championship title (2016 and 2020) and a 10th DP World Tour victory in 195 starts.
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia -- Portuguese superstar Cristiano Ronaldo on Tuesday said next year's World Cup would be his last as...The 40-year-old forward, with more than 950 club and international goals, also said he would retire from football in "one or two years".
"Let's be honest, when I mean soon, it's probably one or two years I'll still be at the game," he said.
- Cairo, Egypt -- Thousands of visitors streamed through the Grand Egyptian Museum on Tuesday as almost the entire collection of King...
Curated and conserved over nearly two decades, the collection was unveiled to the public two days after the museum's lavish opening ceremony on Saturday.
In a vast, dimly lit main hall spanning four levels, visitors gazed at chariots, household items, jeweled ornaments and, at the center, Tutankhamun's iconic golden mask.
- Cairo, Egypt - With much pomp and circumstance, Cairo is due to inaugurate on Saturday the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum,...
With a panoramic view of the Giza pyramids plateau, the GEM houses thousands of artefacts spanning more than 5,000 years of Egyptian antiquity at a whopping cost of over $1 billion
More than two decades in the making, the ultra-modern museum anticipates five million visitors annually, with never-before-seen relics on display
The Spanish master painted it on July 11, 1943 and it was acquired in August 1944 by a private French...Entitled "Bust of a Woman With a Flowery Hat", the oil portrait of photographer, painter and poet Maar is a riot of colours and thick, black lines
The Spanish master painted it on July 11, 1943 and it was acquired in August 1944 by a private French collector, grandfather of the former anonymous owners
- Paris, France -- Qatar has revealed itself as the owner of a famous self-portrait by French realist master Gustave Courbet...
"The Desperate Man" depicts Courbet with a wild-eyed stare looking out of the canvas in a work that is one of his best known alongside "The Stone Breakers".
Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, head of Qatar Museums and sister of the Gulf state's ruler, said the painting was destined for the Art Mill Museum.
- Doha, Qatar -- The United Arab Emirates moved to within a match of their second World Cup appearance with a...
The Emiratis, who last appeared at a World Cup in 1990, were made to work for their win, when late goals from Meloni and Lucas sealed the three points at Jassim Bin Hamad stadium.
The UAE now sit top of Group A heading into the final round of matches on Tuesday, when victory against at Qatar would secure a first World Cup appearance in three decades.
- Stockholm, Sweden -- The Nobel Prize for Literature was on Thursday awarded to Laszlo Krasznahorkai considered by many as Hungary's...
The Swedish Academy honored him "for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art".
The Academy highlighted Krasznahorkai's first novel published in 1985, "Satantango", which brought him to prominence in Hungary and remains his best-known work.
Cairo, Egypt - A limestone tablet dating back more than 4,000 years has disappeared from Egypt's Saqqara necropolis, authorities said...In a statement, the antiquities ministry announced "the disappearance of an ancient tablet from the tomb of Khenti Ka in the Saqqara archaeological area".
In September, Egyptian police said they arrested a museum employee and three alleged accomplices after a priceless ancient gold bracelet was stolen from Cairo's Egyptian Museum
- New York, United States - Swifties, the wait is nearly over. Taylor Swift's hotly anticipated "The Life of a Showgirl"...
"Showgirl" is the 35-year-old's 12th studio album, and draws inspiration from her life on the record-shattering Eras Tour, which wrapped up late last year with a staggering $2 bn
The album "comes from the most infectiously joyful, wild, dramatic place I was in in my life," she said on the New Heights podcast hosted by Kelce and his brother
