Lebanese design gives Paris furniture fair new horizons
Fri Jan 14,11:01 AM ET
From concept cars to unusually-shaped tables, calligraphy dresses and even a tent backpack, designers from Lebanon are under the spotlight here in what is being billed as the first exhibition abroad of Lebanese design.
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World's largest blimp takes to the sky in Japan
Fri Jan 14,10:38 AM ET
A modern-day Zeppelin billed as the world's largest blimp entered the skies over Japan on a test run of an airship hoped to draw both tourists and advertisers.
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No sand, no sun, just Southampton for luxury cruise passengers stranded in Britain
Fri Jan 14,12:25 PM ET
Hundreds of passengers aboard a luxury British cruise liner heading for the tropics instead found themselves contemplating the wind-swept skyline of industrial Southampton after the vessel broke down.
Bags of rice, boxes of water the weapons in US Marines' relief war
Fri Jan 14,12:12 PM ET
Squeezed between Harrier attack jets, Humvees and helicopters in the muggy hangar of this amphibious assault ship lie the weapons in a different kind of war: bags of Thai rice and boxes of water.
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Belly-dancing student of Turkish descent is Miss Germany 2005
Fri Jan 14,11:04 AM ET
A 23-year-old student of Turkish descent who cites belly-dancing as one of her hobbies has been voted Germany's new beauty queen for 2005.
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Don Quixote at centre of literary golden age for Spain
Thu Jan 13,10:16 PM ET
When Miguel de Cervantes began writing his masterpiece Don Quixote during the dying embers of the 16th Century, Spain was just coming to the end of a glorious expansionary period of empire-building.
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Pre-Incan artefact among 28,000 artworks recovered in Italy
Fri Jan 14,12:52 PM ET
Italy is to formally hand over to Peru next week a millennium-old artefact recovered by specialist art police here after it had been stolen in southern Peru, officials said.
America puts on its poker-face
Thu Jan 13,10:14 AM ET
Chips, cards and a green mat -- poker sets were one of the hottest items on Santa's gift list this holiday season in the United States, reflecting a renewed passion for the game among adults and teens alike.
Berlin restaurant caters for people who would rather not eat
Thu Jan 13, 5:25 AM ET
With her white chef's hat, Claudia looks at home in the kitchen of this Berlin restaurant, but her culinary talents are being used to feed people who, like her, suffer from eating disorders.
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Strawberry Fields not "forever" after all
Thu Jan 13, 2:09 PM ET
Strawberry Fields, the English orphanage immortalized in the famous Beatles song "Strawberry Fields Forever", is to close soon.
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Wed Jan 12, 2:16 PM ET
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Wed Jan 12,11:45 AM ET
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Wed Jan 12, 1:32 PM ET
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Wed Jan 12,11:30 AM ET
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Wed Jan 12,10:59 AM ET
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Exploits of Caribbean pirates highlighted by museum
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