Sweden's tradition of gender equality has famously put more mums in the workplace while rising numbers of dads stay at home.

Now advocates have a new frontier: they're pushing for a gender-neutral pronoun, "hen", to be added to "han" (he) and "hon" (she).

Sotheby's said on Monday it has canceled the sale of a Chinese painting by a top-selling artist at its auction in Hong Kong, after its ownership was challenged by a Taiwanese Buddhist nun.

The 1950 painting, "Riding in the Autumn Countryside" by Zhang Daqian, was expected to fetch up to $1.6 million at Monday's fine Chinese paintings sale, where 325 art works valued at up to $22 million will go under the hammer.

Hungarian prosecutors brought a new charge of "complicity in criminal acts" on Friday against Bela Biszku, a former communist leader under investigation for alleged war crimes in the aftermath of the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising in Budapest.

"In March 1957, at a time when Bela Biszku was interior minister, policemen severely beat three members of the Hungarian Academy of Science who had taken part in the events of 1956," the Prosecution Office in Budapest said in a statement.

Bulgaria, which has prided itself as being the only ally of Nazi Germany to save its 48,000 Jews from death camps, must now admit it allowed the killing of 11,000 Jews from territories under its control, researchers say.

"You are a hero rescuer but also a brutal murderer and a cool persecutor. You cannot say the one without saying the other too," Michael Berenbaum, founder of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, told a conference Friday in Sofia aimed at shedding light on this sombre page of Bulgaria's history.

Fascinated by contraception, chimney sweeps, or magic boxes? Vienna has a museum for you.

The city may be better known for its grand art collections, but it is filled with quirky or downright bizarre establishments, and Museum Night is their chance to shine.

Walking or running in a full suit of samurai armour is not the easiest thing in the world. Swimming in it is even harder, but that's exactly what some in Japan are doing. For fun.

"It's heavy, and it's hot in here... Fan me hard," Mutsuo Koga, a 27-year-old doctor, told fellow disciples of traditional Japanese swimming at a recent meet.

Books about an Indian slum, an Everest expedition and the history of violence are among the six finalists for Britain's most lucrative nonfiction book award, the Samuel Johnson Prize.

Katherine Boo's "Behind The Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum," Wade Davis' "Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest" and Steven Pinker's "The Better Angels Of Our Nature: A History Of Violence and Humanity" are shortlisted for the 20,000 pound ($32,000) prize.

Bosnia's National Museum, founded in the 19th century and home to a famed 600-year old Jewish manuscript known as the Sarajevo Haggadah, closed its doors indefinitely Thursday due to political disputes and a lack of funding.

"Such a complex institution cannot function by improvisations. The authorities must provide the funds for employees' salaries and functioning costs," museum manager Adnan Busuladzic said.

A Picasso painting the famous artist created in denouncing war has come to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis.

The battle raging on Rue Du Faubourg Saint-Denis, a shabby Paris street where hip bars are sprouting up like mushrooms, is part of a wider war in the city pitching sleep-starved residents against nocturnal revelers.

Here, as in districts across Paris, officials are trying to reconcile locals' demands for peace and quiet with the French capital's stated aim of regaining its lost reputation as a buzzing city with great nightlife.