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Kuala Lumpur, Sep 10 (ANI): An Indian woman, who is suspected of murdering her husband in Malaysia, was chased back into the arms of Malaysian law by relatives of the victim.

The suspect, a 30-year-old woman, had fled with her 8-year-old daughter late last month after the brutal murder of her husband, Khalid Abdullah, a [...]

Washington, September 9 (ANI): Italian archaeologists have unearthed a 1st century A.D. colossal statue of Apollo, the Greek god of the sun, light, music and poetry, from white calcified cliffs in southwestern Turkey.

Colossal statues were very popular in antiquity, as evidenced by the lost [...]

Gangtok, Sep 3 (ANI): An art school is preserving the oldest form of traditional and religious art of statue making, influenced by Buddhist teaching in Sikkim.

The Traditional Arts School for Thangka Painting at 5th mile, a half an hour drive from state capital Gangtok, is under [...]

Paris, Aug.20 (ANI): French anti-war campaigners have desecrated a statue of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on the anniversary of Paris’s liberation from Nazi rule.
The red paint attack on the bronze hands of the 250, 000 pound statue took place at night, The Telegraph reports.

The initials RH were also daubed on the statue, [...]

New Delhi, July 11 (ANI): Ministry of Environment and Forest has sought an explanation from Uttar Pradesh government over alleged violation of environmental laws in construction of a park in NOIDA

Uttar Pradesh Government is constructing Memorial Park in 33-hectare area along the Yamuna Riverbed in [...]

Washington, July 9 (ANI): The restoration of a 2,000-year-old bronze sculpture of the famed ancient Greek athlete Apoxyomenos may help modern scientists understand how to prevent metal corrosion, discover the safest ways to permanently store nuclear waste, and understand other perplexing problems.

That’s the conclusion of a new study on the so-called “biomineralization” of Apoxyomenos.

Best known [...]

Udaipur, June 30 (ANI): President Pratibha Patil will arrive here on a one-day visit today to unveil the statue of Maharana Pratap at the newly constructed international airport terminal.

The President will be accompanied by her husband Dr. Devi Singh Shekhawat and daughter Jyoti Rathore.

Governor Shilendra Kumar Singh, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, Union Minister for [...]

Udaipur, June 30 (ANI): President Pratibha Patil will arrive here on a one-day visit today to unveil the statue of Maharana Pratap at the newly constructed international airport terminal.

The President will be accompanied by her husband Dr. Devi Singh Shekhawat and daughter Jyoti Rathore.

Governor Shilendra Kumar Singh, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, Union Minister for [...]

Leicester (UK), June 27 (ANI): A large statue of Mahatma Gandhi was unveiled in this southeastern English city on Friday by British Home Secretary Alan Johnson amid tight security after internet protesters warned it could be defaced.

Around 1,000 people, including a [...]

Silliguri, May 30 (ANI): The Himalayan Nature and Adventure Foundation (HNAF), a NGO in Siliguri on Friday celebrated the 56th anniversary of climbing the Mount Everest for the first time.

Sir Edmund Hillary of Newzeland and Nepali Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the top of the 8,850 metre (29,035 feet) mountain [...]

Male (Maldives), May 29 (ANI): An Islander has discovered a pre-Islamic stupa, a Buddhist relic, beneath his house in Raa atoll Agolhitheemu in Maldives, while digging to build a well.

According to a report in Minivan News, Yoosuf Adam, from Gulhaam House, found the coral stupa divided into three parts.

“It looks like a pawn on [...]

Rome, May 26 (ANI): A wooden statue bought by the Italian government for 2.5 million pounds and attributed to Michelangelo is a fake, art historians have claimed. he 41cm long figure, named Cristo Ritrovato (Christ Refound) was bought late last year from a private collection and [...]

Allahabad/Ludhiana, May 22 (ANI): As Dr. Manmohan Singh gets ready for his second term as Prime Minister, artists have greeted him in their own unique way.

A youth from Allahabad city has built a sand sculpture of Dr. Singh at Sangam on the banks of the river Ganga.

“On [...]

Washington, May 9 (ANI): The White House aide who authorized the controversial Air Force One photo-op flight last week around the Statue of Liberty is out of a job.

President Obama has accepted the resignation of Louis Caldera, the director of the White House Military Office, the Daily News learned Friday.

A secretary of the Army [...]

New York, May 9 (ANI): American Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has announced that the crown of the Statue of Liberty will be reopened to tourists on July 4, to mark the 233rd birthday of the country.

This is the first time that visitors will be welcomed to the Statue of Liberty’s crown since terrorists toppled [...]

New York, May 6 (ANI): Pictures of an ill-conceived photo-operation, designed to capture one of the president’s planes near national landmarks like the Statue of Liberty, will be kept under wraps.

As part of a photo-op carried out by the US Defense Department, a 747 and supersonic jet fighter might have buzzed the Manhattan skyline, and [...]

Washington, Apr.29 (ANI): A furious President Barack Obama has ordered an internal investigation into a photo-op featuring the presidential jet that sent thousands of New Yorkers running for their lives.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Tuesday Obama was “furious” when he heard about the incident and has ordered a deputy chief of staff of find [...]

Washington, Apr.28 (ANI): White House Military Office Director Louis Caldera has apologized for any panic caused by a flight mission and photo op that looked like Air Force One and fighter jets heading toward the New York City skyline Monday morning.

Caldera said he approved the mission last week and that federal authorities took the [...]

Melbourne, Apr 20 (ANI): Aussie actor Hugh Jackman has revealed that he accidentally stabbed a stuntwoman with his metal claws during the filming of ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’.

As per Digital Spy, the incident has forced film bosses to rethink how to film the scene after Jackman, 40, hurt Rebecca Romijn’s stunt double.

“On the very first film [...]

Washington, April 18 (ANI): Rapper Snoop Dogg will cement his legendary status in the music industry when his wax figure is unveiled at Madame Tussauds.

The 36-year-old will go on to become the first living rapper to be honoured at the famous wax museum as a 300,000-dollar statue, sporting his trademark braided cornrows, is unwrapped in [...]