Poland is preparing to mark one of the darkest episodes of the Holocaust, when the country's Nazi German occupiers launched an operation to kill the population of the Jewish ghetto they created in Warsaw.

Sunday's solemn tribute to the victims of the mass deportations that began on July 22, 1942, will be capped by a memorial concert in what was once the Polish capital's Jewish quarter.

FBI agents have recovered what is believed to be a Matisse painting valued at $3 million that was stolen from a Venezuelan museum 10 years ago, and arrested two suspects, authorities said Wednesday.

Pedro Antonio Marcuello Guzman, 46, of Miami, and Maria Martha Elisa Ornelas Lazo, 50, of Mexico City, were arrested and charged for transporting and possessing what is thought to be Matisse's 'Odalisque in Red Pants,' which was reported stolen from a museum in Caracas, U.S. prosecutors said in a statement.

A New York aerospace museum opened the space shuttle Enterprise to the public Thursday.

The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum has installed the space shuttle on the runway of the aircraft carrier "Intrepid," a museum facility docked at a pier on Manhattan's West Side.

One year after Anders Behring Breivik's deadly attacks, Norway will on Sunday commemorate his 77 victims with ceremonies set to reassert a national ambition to not let the carnage change its open, democratic values.

On July 22, 2011, the right-wing extremist first set off a bomb near the government building in Oslo, killing eight people, before going on a shooting rampage on the nearby Utoeya island, where the ruling Labor Party's youth wing was hosting a summer camp.

Sixty-four of Mexico's 364 Indian dialects are at "high risk" of dying out, with less than 100 speakers of each remaining, the head of the country's National Institute of Indian Languages said Tuesday.

Institute head Javier Lopez Sanchez said that in many cases, speakers of dying dialects are dispersed and no longer live in a single community.

The annual Hong Kong Book Fair opened Wednesday with around a million people expected to attend the event, which is known for shedding light on work that has been banned in mainland China.

More than 530 exhibitors from 20 countries are taking part in the 23rd edition of the fair, and organizers are expecting to beat last year's attendance of 950,000 people.

A bitter spat over one of Berlin's best-loved art collections, a clutch of invaluable Old Master paintings, came to a head this week with the German government vowing to find a compromise.

Culture Minister Bernd Neumann said he would help forge a consensus in the row over plans to move the masterpieces currently housed at the world-renowned Gemaeldegalerie to the German capital's UNESCO-listed Museum Island.

Google on Tuesday unveiled an online information exchange platform to try to give some extra lasting power to more than 3,000 endangered languages.

Called endangeredlanguages.com, it is out to help improve the exchange of digital source materials in languages spoken by small numbers of people, from Navajo in the United States, to Aragonese in Spain, to Koro in India and Burunge in Tanzania.

Backed by its gastronomy, martial arts, music and manga culture, Brazil's small but influential Japanese community is wielding soft power to assert ethnic pride and preserve century-old ties.

Japanese Brazilians are among the most successful and well-integrated of the South American giant's communities but keep in touch with their roots through events like the annual Festival of Japan, which wrapped up Sunday in Sao Paulo.

Australian billionaire Clive Palmer Tuesday said his modern-day version of the Titanic will retain the first, second and third-class divisions of the original and include a new "safety" deck.

Releasing the preliminary plans and drawings for the Titanic II, which is to be built in China, mining tycoon Palmer said the massive vessel would have the original nine decks plus an additional safety deck.