A group of students discovered a 7,000-year-old mummy during a trip to northern Chile, local media reported Monday.

La Tercera newspaper reported that the find was made by chance Saturday during a visit to the Morro de Arica site by local students.

Russia has refused to permit the release of a film about the mass deportations of entire ethnic groups on Stalin's orders during World War II, calling it anti-Russian and a falsification of history.

The historical drama shot in Chechnya details how the Soviets forcibly deported the whole Chechen nation and the related Ingush group -- half a million people -- from their homeland in the North Caucasus to Central Asia in the winter of 1944, accusing them of lacking loyalty to the state.

A blaze ripped through one of the world's top art schools in the Scottish city of Glasgow on Friday, damaging a historic building designed by the architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

All students and staff were safely evacuated from the Glasgow School of Art, officials said, after the fire sent smoke and flames billowing from one of Scotland's most cherished buildings.

A 100-year-old beggar in a threadbare coat, "Grandpa" Dobri, is already celebrated as a saint in Bulgaria -- a symbol of goodness in a country ravaged by poverty and corruption.

For over 20 years, Dobri Dobrev has been begging on the streets of Sofia, collecting alms worth tens of thousands of euros. And he has given it all to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. 

Britain's High Court ordered on Friday that king Richard III should be buried in a cathedral in Leicester, the city where his remains were found under a car park two years ago.

Descendants of the infamous ruler, who died in battle in 1485, had fought for his remains to be buried in York Minster, in the northern city that gave its name to Richard's royal house.

One of Brazil's top Catholic bishops has spoken out in favor of legal unions for homosexual couples, an apparent shift in the Church's stance on the country's existing gay-marriage policy.

"There needs to be a dialog on the rights attached to shared life between people of the same sex who decide to live together. They need legal support from society," Leonardo Steiner, the secretary general of the National Confederation of Brazilian Bishops, said in an interview with O Globo newspaper published on its website Thursday.

Brash, baroque and steeped in native Andean symbols, the mini-mansions are a striking sight on the caked-dirt streets of El Alto, the inexorably expanding sister city of Bolivia's capital.

They attest to a new class of indigenous nouveau riche, many of them merchants who converted street stalls into fortunes. Owners often sink a million dollars into the opulent edifices, lavishing funds on brilliantly colored ballrooms.

Solidere held a press conference on the 21st of May, at the Yacht Club in Zaitunay Bay, to launch the fourteenth edition of the "Fête de La Musique”, which will take place this year on June 21st, in Beirut Central District.This festival has become an annual tradition, staged by Solidere in collaboration with the French Cultural Center in Lebanon and the Ministry of Culture and a number of embassies.

The conference was attended by Michel de Chadarévian representing the Minister of Culture, His Excellency Rony Ereijy, who reiterated the Ministry's support for this important annual event. The French ambassador, Mr. Patrice Paoli presented also, the most important historical milestones of this festival; including the launch of the Fête de la Musique in Lebanon in 2001. In addition, a detailed presentation about this year’s rich program was given.

New York's 9/11 museum opened to the general public on Wednesday, praised by early visitors as an overwhelming and beautiful tribute to the survivors and nearly 3,000 victims.

The National September 11 Memorial Museum, built into the bedrock of the World Trade Center Twin Towers, documents the attacks, their impact and legacy with 10,000 artifacts.

There will never be another day like it. Poignantly, what they said about D-Day at the time also applies to next month's 70th anniversary of the pivotal 24 hours of World War II.

When the dwindling band of veterans of the Longest Day gather in Normandy, they will do so in the knowledge that, for all but a tiny handful of them, it will be for the last time.