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• Bangladesh cancels French museum show after theft of rare artefacts

  - 2007-12-25

  DHAKA AFP — Bangladesh cancelled plans to send rare artefacts to Paris for a museum exhibition next year after two ancient statues of a Hindu deity were stolen en route to France. The 1,500-year-old rare terracotta statues of the Hindu god Vishnu disappeared from Zia International Airport in Dhaka...

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• Anti-war protest replica wins Turner Prize

  - 2007-12-03

  LONDON AFP — An exact replica of a 40-metre (130-foot) long one-man anti-war protest outside Britain's parliament won this year's Turner Prize on Monday. Mark Wallinger's painstaking recreation, "State Britain", which is now featured inside the Tate Britain gallery in Liverpool, was praised by the award panel for its...

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• Sex and war: how conflict changed the way we make love

  - 2007-10-05

  PARIS AFP — Paris, August 1944. The picture shows a bloodied German officer, dead on the street outside Harry's Bar. On an armoured car the soldier who shot him smiles. A pretty girl has climbed aboard. She approaches the soldier with a look of pleasurable intent. Since the face...

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• Kenya hominid's US trip sparks row

  - 2007-09-25

  NAIROBI AFP — Plans to send Turkana Boy -- a unique hominid skeleton -- and other prehistoric jewels from Kenyan museums for exhibition in the United States have sparked heated debate among Kenya's scientific community. The trip will bring in a much-needed windfall to Kenya's cash-strapped museums but the...

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• Cultural critics slam Kylie and Kate shows in London

  - 2007-02-06

  LONDON AFP — Cultural critics poured scorn on decisions by two major London museums to devote shows to celebrities including Kylie Minogue and Kate Moss, claiming they were chasing crowds not quality. The Victoria and Albert Museum's "Kylie -- The Exhibition" opens Thursday, the week before "Face of Fashion"...

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• Goya painting stolen on its way to New York's Guggenheim

  - 2006-11-14

  NEW YORK AFP — An 18th century painting by Spanish master Francisco de Goya has been stolen while being taken to New York's Guggenheim museum for an exhibition. "Children with a Cart," a 1776 painting from the collection of the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio, disappeared while en route...

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• Bulletproof T-shirts a must for those who fear modern life

  - 2005-10-17

  NEW YORK AFP — It could be a trade show for army surplus store owners, but the bullet proof vests for the fashion-conscious and ultra-light shelters on display at New York's Museum of Modern Art show just how vulnerable the West feels against terrorism and other threats. Security has...

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• James Bond-type gadgets on display at Asian security trade fair

  - 2005-03-30

  SINGAPORE AFP — James Bond would have felt right at home at this week's homeland security exhibition in Singapore. A dark, sleek armoured truck that can shoot down incoming missiles, the world's smallest V-satellite phone system and an ultra-quiet boat engine were just some of the merchandise Agent 007...

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• Prince uses art to bring change in Laos

  - 2004-04-17

  WASHINGTON AFP ? Nearly 30 years after communists seized power from a conservative monarchy in Laos, Prince Nithakhong Somsanith only reluctantly accepts the death of royalty in his tiny Southeast Asian country. "I sincerely feel monarchy is alive today because Buddhism has remained and these two elements are inseparable...

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