The Chinese state news agency Xinhua on Friday opened a gallery in Paris, the first of a number planned for major world cities, with an inaugural photographic exhibition tracing 50 years of Sino-French relations.

The gallery will host photographic and art exhibitions and similar venues are planned in other cities such as New York, London, Madrid and Hong Kong.

Parts of the plane in which former U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt's pilot son Quentin was shot down in July 1918 will be auctioned off on June 29 in this northwest French town, organizers said Friday.

The fragments of cabin were handed down to the descendants of Quentin Roosevelt's former landlady in Issoudun, central France where the young pilot was based.

An 11-year-old New Zealand boy was reported Saturday to have fathered a child with the 36-year-old mother of a school friend, raising questions on why women cannot be charged with rape in the country.

Counsellors working in the area of child sexual abuse said the case highlighted a lack of attention to women as potential offenders, according to the New Zealand Herald, which reported the story.

There was a time when Latino immigrants in the United States hushed up their Spanish, trying to blend in. Now you hear it all over, as Latinos flex their growing political and media muscle.

Indeed, the trilled R's and staccato bursts of the language of Quixote liven up city streets from coast to coast, and even in the halls of power in Washington.

A lost medieval city that thrived on a mist-shrouded Cambodian mountain 1,200 years ago has been discovered by archaeologists using revolutionary airborne laser technology, a report said Saturday.

In what it called a world exclusive, the Sydney Morning Herald said the city, Mahendraparvata, included temples hidden by jungle for centuries, many of which have not been looted.

German police said Thursday they have broken up a multi-million-euro (dollar) international art forgery gang and arrested the suspected ringleaders.

The federal criminal police office or BKA said in a statement that two men, aged 41 and 67, were arrested after a large number of flats, offices, warehouses and galleries were raided in the cities of Wiesbaden, Mainz, Stuttgart, Munich, Hamburg and Cologne.

The long-lost diary of a senior Nazi German war criminal emerged from the shadows Thursday, with experts saying it could shed new light on the Holocaust.

The Rosenberg Diary, kept by Alfred Rosenberg, a confidant of Adolf Hitler whose racist theories underpinned Nazi Germany's annihilation of six million Jews, had been missing since the Nuremberg war crimes trials ended in 1946.

At the age of 95, one of Russia's most admired theater directors, Yury Lyubimov, is staging his first ever production at the Bolshoi Theater, a boldly pared-down version of Borodin's opera "Prince Igor".

Lyubimov founded and headed Moscow's Taganka Theater for 50 years, winning worldwide renown for his hugely visual and experimental shows. He quit the theater two years ago but continues to work despite his advanced age.

Attackers desecrated graves in an Arab Christian cemetery in Jaffa and damaged property nearby, in an incident that bore the hallmarks of a "price tag" hate crime, police said on Thursday.

Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said that headstones in the Orthodox Christian graveyard in Jaffa, a mixed Arab-Jewish area in southern Tel Aviv, were sprayed with Hebrew graffiti and the tyres of five vehicles parked nearby were slashed.

With private jets filling the air and lines of luxury limousines on the ready, deep-pocketed collectors from around the world have flocked to Switzerland this week for Art Basel, the biggest contemporary art fair on the planet.

The 44th edition of the show opens to the public on Thursday, but the doors were nudged open already on Tuesday for special VIPs wanting an advance peek at the wide range of artwork displayed across a whopping 31,000 square metres (334,000 square feet) of exhibition space.