Extended hours for major Edouard Manet show in London
LONDON - Bold claims have been made on behalf of 19th century French painter Edouard Manet - that he invented modern art, or was the man who bridged realism and impressionism.
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Rape charge against British broadcaster deepens BBC scandal
LONDON - A veteran British TV presenter was charged with rape and 14 counts of indecent assault on underage girls, police said on Tuesday, deepening concerns about sex abuse by top BBC personalities decades ago.
Hasidic therapist gets 103 years in prison for sex abuse
NEW YORK - An ultra-Orthodox Jewish counselor was sentenced to 103 years in prison on Tuesday for sexually abusing a young female patient over three years in the insular Brooklyn community where they lived.
From bombastic to beloved, Joachim Sauer's trip to Wagner's "grail"
BERLIN - In his youth, theoretical chemist Joachim Sauer found the music of Richard Wagner "bombastic". All that changed when he was in his early 20s with a chance encounter with Wagner's 'Siegfried'.
Is Facebook envy making you miserable?
LONDON - Witnessing friends' vacations, love lives and work successes on Facebook can cause envy and trigger feelings of misery and loneliness, according to German researchers.
Romania arrests three men over Dutch art heist: report
BUCHAREST - Romanian authorities have arrested three men suspected of stealing paintings by Picasso, Matisse and Monet from Rotterdam's Kunsthal museum in October, local news agency Mediafax said on Tuesday.