Italy has launched a campaign to convince the Louvre Museum in Paris to lend the Mona Lisa painting to Florence’s Uffizi Gallery in 2013 to mark the 100th anniversary of its recovery following one of history’s most famous art thefts.

Feb. 10: Yemen’s foreign minister doubts a popular uprising will take place in the country like the revolt which toppled Tunisia’s authoritarian President in January or the anti-government unrest that

Jan. 14: The police are probing Pakistani television reporter Wali Khan Babar’s murder late on Thursday in Karachi. It was the latest in a wave of targeted killings that have left 22 people dead in th

Jan. 14: Pope John Paul II will be beatified on May 1 at a ceremony in Rome, the Vatican said on Friday. Beatification is the penultimate step on the road to sainthood. The Vatican said Pope Benedict

Rome, Sept.24: The Iranian president, Mr Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, appears to have a hard and complex personality full of contradictions with a cold heart that seems to be “locked away in a safe,” said Mr

Rome, Aug. 16: Italy’s culture minister Sandro Bondi on Monday described as “absurd” and “inopportune” a row that has erupted between the government and Florence city council over ownership of Michel-