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Pope Leo XIV in one of the most photogenic places in Catholic Europe
On the evening of 26 September Pope Leo XIV flew by helicopter to Lourdes as part of his apostolic visit to France. At the Massabielle Grotto the Pope led a prayer service attended by numerous pilgrims. Before the statue of the Mother of God, Leo XIV touched the rock of
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The Ending of Orson Welles's Lost Film to Be Restored with AI
The American company Fable, founded by the producer Edward Saatchi, is using generative artificial intelligence to restore the lost 43 minutes of Orson Welles's film «The Magnificent Ambersons». Edward Saatchi belongs to the family that founded the advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi. His company has received investment from
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America demands explanations from China over low-yield nuclear tests
In closed diplomatic talks, American officials are demanding explanations from China over alleged low-yield nuclear tests and the rapid expansion of its strategic infrastructure at no fewer than seven secret sites. The talks took place on the margins of multilateral meetings in Geneva, New York and Casablanca, against the
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Hockney's Portrait of His Dachshund to Come Under the Hammer for the First Time
Hockney died in June 2026 at the age of 88. In 2018 his painting "Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)" sold at Christie's in New York for $90.3 million, and Hockney was then considered the most expensive living artist. In the painting Hockney
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Ai Weiwei displays 500 cast-iron helmets in Sydney
On 25 September the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei unveiled a work commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia in Sydney. The installation, entitled "Mushrooms", consists of 500 cast-iron soldiers' helmets, which the artist has arranged in ten even rows on the Tallawoladah lawn. This lawn
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Melania Trump and Peng Liyuan Visit the National Museum of Asian Art in Washington
On 24 September Melania Trump and Peng Liyuan, wife of the Chinese President Xi Jinping, visited the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Asian Art in Washington. The First Ladies came to the museum during the diplomatic visit of the Chinese delegation, while their husbands remained at the White
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A wall more than two thousand years old found in the centre of Paris
On the Île de la Cité in the centre of Paris, archaeologists have discovered a section of ancient wall about 20 metres long. The researchers suppose that this wall formed part of the fortifications of Lutetia, the settlement of the Gallic tribe of the Parisii from which Paris later grew.
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Tolstoy out walking in winter 1908, photograph by Vladimir Chertkov
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Easter Festivities in the Army, 1914-1918
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Undisturbed burials discovered at Göbekli Tepe
Göbekli Tepe lies in south-eastern Turkey. Between 9600 and 8200 BC, hunter-gatherers raised monumental structures and stone pillars here in several stages. This era belongs to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, that is, the early part of the New Stone Age, when people were already building large structures but
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Findings published on a 17th-century ship sunk off northern Germany
The Polish underwater archaeologist Michał Grzegorz Grabowski of the University of Warsaw has published the results of his study of a 17th-century shipwreck. Divers found the vessel in 2023 in the Greifswald Bay in northern Germany, while preparing the route for an underwater gas pipeline. The Greifswald Bay is