Culture

News Hour: French fashion designer Sonia Rykiel died on Thursday at the age of 86, mourned by President Francois Hollande as an inventor of “an attitude, a way of life”. Rykiel was a rare women at...

News Hour: Egypt cannot afford to keep its museums open let alone search for ancient buried treasures because of the economic crisis, the antiquities minister says. Tourism, a mainstay of the economy, has been hit hard...

News Hour: The first driverless taxi began work on Thursday in a limited public trial on the streets of Singapore. Developer nuTonomy invited a select group of people to download their app and ride for free...

News Hour: It is said to be the world’s first weather station, to date back more than 2,000 years, and to have been used by merchants to tell the time – even in darkness. The Tower...

News Hour: Standing in line for a special ceremony, uniformed soldiers of His Majesty the King of Norway’s Guard are carefully inspected — by a penguin. Sir Nils Olav, a resident king penguin at Edinburgh Zoo,...

News Hour: The Australian designer of the burkini said she has enjoyed increased sales of the body-covering swimwear for Muslim women since three French cities banned it. The mayors of Cannes, Villeneuve-Loubet and the Corsican seaside...

News Hour: Four homeless men and a priest have set out on a tractor-powered pilgrimage from Poland to France, inspired by another journey in director David Lynch’s film 1999 film “The Straight Story”. The Polish men...

News Hour: Despite some criticism of bike helmets for not being protective enough, they do cut the risk of severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) by half when riders suffer a head injury, a U.S. study suggests....

News Hour: Paramount’s $100 million remake of “Ben-Hur” bombed in its opening weekend at the North American box office, industry data showed Monday, putting it on course to become the summer’s biggest flop, reports BSS. The...

News Hour: Japanese monks competed based on their inner beauty at a funeral expo to compete in the second annual “Most Handsome Monk Contest” on Monday (August 22). Spectators voted for the monk who was the most inspiring after the finalists...