Priest to hold nun beauty pageant

"An Italian priest says he is organising the world's first beauty pageant for nuns to erase a stereotype of them as being old and dour. Antonio Rungi says The Miss Sister Italy online contest will start on his blog in September. "Nuns are above all women and beauty is a gift...

Once a Hollywood legend, Doris Day is now an ageing recluse called Clara

Doris Clara, Hollywood legend, 84 years old, but still looks wonderful. Nothing is last forever. One way or another it gets us all in the end! " She enchanted a generation with her golden locks, pretty face and...

China Intensifies Tibet Monasteries Siege

More than 2,000 police are surrounding one monastery, and two others are under siege by authorities in Tibet after the monks there began a hunger strike and continued their protests, despite harsh government...

Full-Scale Gordon Matta-Clark Retrospective Opens

NEW YORK.- The first full-scale retrospective in twenty years of the work of Gordon Matta-Clark will open at the Whitney Museum of American Art on February 22, 2007. Gordon Matta-Clark: “You Are the Measure” – which travels subsequently to the Museum of...

Ségolène Royal Wins

"“Il n’y aura qu’un seul tour et Ségolène Royal sera la candidate du Parti socialiste” pour 2007, a déclaré jeudi soir le directeur de cabinet de François Hollande, Stéphane Le Foll, seul habilité par le parti à donner le...

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