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Paying for a selfie: Rome starts charging for Trevi Fountain
AFP, Published on 03/02/2026
» ROME - Italy's Trevi Fountain launched a new ticketing system Monday, making the famous Rome landmark the latest tourist site to charge entry in a bid to raise funds and battle overcrowding.
Bulgaria adopts the euro, nearly 20 years after joining the EU
AFP, Published on 01/01/2026
» SOFIA (BULGARIA) - Bulgaria became the 21st country to switch to the euro as it entered the New Year on Thursday, a milestone met with both cheers and fears, nearly 20 years after the Balkan nation joined the European Union.
Two suspects arrested in Louvre jewel heist
AFP, Published on 26/10/2025
» PARIS - French authorities have detained two of the suspected robbers believed to have stolen precious crown jewels from the Louvre in a museum heist that stunned the world, officials said Sunday.
Louvre director admits 'insufficient' camera coverage after heist
AFP, Published on 23/10/2025
» PARIS - The director of the Louvre on Wednesday admitted to inadequate camera surveillance of the museum's outside walls, three days after thieves robbed it of prize jewels in a brazen daytime heist.
Ho Chi Minh City opens first metro line after years of delays
Bloomberg, Published on 23/12/2024
» After years of funding shortages, ballooning costs and bureaucratic foot-dragging, Ho Chi Minh City is opening the first metro line to serve its 10 million residents.
Embassy plans add to UK headaches in resetting China ties
AFP, Published on 17/12/2024
» LONDON - As Britain's new Labour government bids to reset long-fraught ties with China amid a suspected spy scandal, another issue could mar relations: Beijing's controversial plans to open the largest embassy in the UK.
World's biggest jeweller stops using mined silver, gold
Reuters, Published on 30/01/2024
» LONDON - Pandora, the world's largest jeweller by amount of products sold, has stopped using mined silver and gold and now only manufactures with recycled precious metals, which require less energy to produce.
How world's largest Buddhist temple in Indonesia has been reborn
Penny Watson of the South China Morning Post, Published on 19/12/2023
» YOGYAKARTA - I'm tiptoeing reverentially around the Candi Borobudur temple, stopping to take in ancient stone panels and beautiful bell-shaped stupas, and to ponder the Buddha statues sitting in meditative repose.
‘Gold find of the century’ made in Norway
AFP, Published on 07/09/2023
» OSLO - A Norwegian out walking on doctors' advice unearthed rare 6th-century gold jewellery using a newly bought metal detector, a discovery that archaeologists said on Thursday was Norway's "gold find of the century".
Demise of England's 'Crooked House' shows pubs in peril
AFP, Published on 18/08/2023
» LONDON - With a 15-degree list making one end four feet (1.2 metres) lower than the other, the historic Crooked House pub looked as if could topple over at any minute.