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August 10, 2019
Medieval bridge faces troubled waters in Belgium
August 10, 2019
Italy's top female chef mixes it up with flavors from a tiny island
August 10, 2019
Woodstock producer 'pretty bummed' at missed bid to recreate 1969 activism
ATHENS — World-renowned Greek sculptor Takis has died aged 93, his foundation said Friday, just as London's Tate Modern museum holds a major show of his work.The poised stalks, colored lights and moving balls of Takis's creations made him a noted figure of the 20th-century "kinetic" art movement along with the US artist Alexander Calder.The Takis Foundation that promotes his work announced his death in a tribute to him on Facebook, without giving any details.It called him "a true pioneer, innovator and legend... A prolific and visionary mind, whose ingenuity, passion and imagination was endless"."Takis explored many artistic and scientific horizons, as well as music and theater, and redefined the boundaries in art," it said.Takis was born Panagiotis...
August 09, 2019
Renowned Greek sculptor Takis dies at 93
August 09, 2019
Trash for tickets on Indonesia's 'plastic bus'
August 09, 2019
Hidden mysteries lie in wait inside Kenya's fossil treasury
BUZESCU, ROMANIA - With their soaring marble columns, turrets and pagoda-style roofs, elaborate mansions built by affluent Roma dot Romania's countryside in their thousands.Amid modest surroundings of fields or small towns, the so-called Roma palaces seem improbable, even outlandish, but reveal a quest for status within a marginalized and mostly poor minority.They began springing up in the early 1990s after the collapse of communism, when some in the Roma community came into money, they say, mostly by collecting and selling scrap iron or by doing petty trading.Now spread across one of the EU's poorest members, the imposing buildings, estimated to number several thousand, often stand several storys high, as neighbors add floors to outdo one another.Decorative flourishes such as a US...
August 09, 2019
Romania's 'Roma palaces', a status symbol for poor minority
LOS ANGELES, California — Hollywood actor Danny Trejo, known for his tough-guy roles in such films as "Machete," helped rescue a young boy who was trapped in a car that overturned in a Los Angeles traffic collision on Wednesday.Trejo, 75, told television station KABC-TV he was on his way to an auto mechanic in L.A.'s Sylmar neighborhood when he saw a motorist run a red light and crash into another car, which flipped over onto its roof in the intersection.The boy, strapped into his car seat in the back of the car, and his grandmother, who had been driving, were both trapped in the overturned, partially crushed vehicle.Trejo and another bystander - a woman who identified herself as Monica Jackson - teamed up to free the child before emergency personnel arrived on the scene,...
August 09, 2019
Actor Danny Trejo of 'Machete' fame pulls young boy from overturned car
August 09, 2019
'Game of Thrones' show-runners ink massive Netflix deal
August 08, 2019
Manson murders grip tourists and Tarantino 50 years on
