Yisrael Kristal survived two world wars and the Holocaust but doesn't consider himself particularly remarkable, despite being named the world's oldest living man Friday at age 112.

Traditional Hawaiian garments gifted to Captain James Cook before he was killed in the islands more than two centuries ago were handed back to indigenous people of the U.S. Pacific state Friday at a ceremony in Wellington.

Described a "priceless" by New Zealand's national museum Te Papa, the mahiole (feathered helmet) and 'ahu 'ula (feathered cloak) were given to Cook in 1779 during the famous British explorer's last voyage.

Iranian women deputies are suing a conservative male colleague, Nader Ghazipour, after he declared in a video that parliament was no place for "donkeys and women."

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.