British film "Weekend" was restricted to just ten cinemas on its release in Italy on Thursday after the country's bishops branded Andrew Haigh's acclaimed gay love story "indecent" and "unusable" in the country's many Church-owned film theaters.

French President Francois Hollande and the Dutch king and queen on Thursday viewed two rare Rembrandts jointly bought by the Louvre and Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum to avoid a bidding war between their two countries.

The wife of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday hailed the harem of the Ottoman sultans as "a school for preparing women for life."

The 500th anniversary of the creation of the Venice ghetto is to be marked by an unprecedented performance of Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice", in the neighborhood to which the city's Jews were confined for centuries, organizers said Wednesday.

India's top green court Wednesday gave the go-ahead to a mass festival organized by a world-famous guru to be held on the floodplains of Delhi's Yamuna river, despite fierce opposition from environmentalists.

Five women associations (Lebanese League for Women in Business (LLWB), Arab Women in Computing Lebanon Chapter (ArabWIC Lebanon), IEEE Women in Engineering Affinity Group – Lebanon Section, and Women in IT (WIT), and Digital opportunity Trust) organized together the “Girls Got IT” event, bringing

around 400 students girls from public and private schools (10th and 11th grades) for a full day of STEAM (STEAM fields is an acronym for the fields of study in the categories of science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) related hands-on activities at Dbayyeh Convention Center.

Documentary film makers have radar scanned William Shakespeare's grave this year as Britain celebrates the 400th anniversary of the Bard's death, Channel 4 said and the Daily Telegraph reported Monday.

The grave in the Holy Trinity Church in Shakespeare's birthplace of Stratford upon Avon is a place of pilgrimage for fans and has an inscription on it with a curse against anyone planning to tamper with it.

Two Saudi boys, one Sunni, another Shiite, push their desks together and sit side-by-side smiling in a classroom.

Then teachers tell the boys their opposing sects are "evil" and they pull their desks apart, before their parents insist it is okay to be friends, and they walk off hand-in-hand.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated Sunday his commitment to a decision allocating an area at the Western Wall for egalitarian Jewish prayer, despite growing opposition from rabbis and political allies.

The undisputed "king" of French tattoo artists says his industry is struggling to win recognition as an art form on a par with painting or music.