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CNN gets rare access to film inside the Louvre, including the first interview with new director Jean Luc Martinez.     CNN International

The two day cultural event brings together cultural leaders, policymakers and intellectuals from Istanbul and London. The World Cities Culture Forum kicked off on Thursday in Istanbul, Turkey with the attendance ...

For many in the West, the Islamic headscarf (hijab) that many conservative Muslim women wear is a symbol of oppression. They assume that these women must be wearing this unusual ...

Malala Yousafzai, Pakistan's teenage activist, on Thursday was awarded the European Parliament's prestigious Sakharov human rights prize. "Today, we decided to let the world know that our hope for a ...

The world’s biggest and the most magnificent Corinthian-style temple column head has been unearthed during excavations at the Temple of Hadrian in the western province of Balıkesir. The column head ...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with Khaled Mashal, leader of the Hamas political bureau, in the Turkish capital, Ankara, on Tuesday. The meeting that started at 7pm local ...

Recovery efforts have resumed off southern Italy after a boat carrying about 500 African migrants sank off the island of Lampedusa. The vessel foundered less than 1km (half a mile) ...

The anti-coup sign which is quickly spreading across the globe now has its own multilingual website explaining its birth and meaning: www.r4bia.com. The "R4BIA sign" has become the most rapidly ...

UN inspectors are due to visit the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack that took place on Wednesday near the Syrian capital Damascus. The Syrian government and the rebels ...

Turkish FM Davutoglu said Turkey strongly condemned the forcible dispersal by Egyptian security forces of the supporters of ousted President Morsi.                   ...