Police in Tehran are conducting a new crackdown on women wearing mandatory headscarves improperly or in "vulgar" dress, the city's police chief said, according to media reports on Saturday.

Such operations, which see police screening foot and vehicle traffic at major junctions and shopping centers, are conducted fairly often in Iran.

A 15th-century French manuscript with intricate miniature paintings sold at a Paris auction on Friday for two million euros, the Drouot auction house said.

Commissioned in the third decade of the 15th century, the book was put on sale by the French firm Millon. It earlier belonged to Jean Andre Hachette, who had acquired a huge collection of ancient books and drawings.

The only privately owned version of Edvard Munch's "The Scream" is estimated to sell for at least $80 million at Sotheby's next week as the star of the New York spring art auctions.

Picasso's portrait of Dora Maar, estimated to sell for $20 million to $30 million at Sotheby's on Wednesday, and Cezanne's "Joueurs de Cartes," estimated to fetch $15 million to $20 million at Christie's on Tuesday, are other highlights of the Impressionist and modern sales.

A German couple on Friday opened a museum devoted to legendary British rock band, the Rolling Stones, complete with urinals in the shape of the group's famous "tongue" logo.

The museum, in the small eastern German town of Luechow, will show "thousands of pieces" of memorabilia, including an original signed pool table the group took on tour, instruments, posters and a Stones pinball machine.

The Romanian Academy has corrected the definitions of anti-Semitic and racist words in the latest edition of a widely-circulated dictionary, after protests from Jewish and Roma groups.

"The definitions of 30 words related to the Roma have been revised in the latest edition of the DEX dictionary," Roma rights group Impreuna said Thursday.

Claude Tayag sees himself as a food missionary, hoping to convert people at home and abroad to the secret cuisine wonders of the Philippines.

The Southeast Asian nation's table-fare has long suffered a poor reputation internationally compared with its regional neighbors.

Ukraine mourned Thursday the 26th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, as its president prepared to launch construction of a vital new shelter to contain the stricken nuclear plant.

In a message mourning the victims, President Viktor Yanukovych described Chernobyl as the "largest human-caused disaster of the 20th century" and thanked countries that have contributed to the massive sarcophagus project.

Germany's Jewish community on Wednesday welcomed a landmark decision to republish Adolf Hitler's manifesto "Mein Kampf" for the first time since World War II, in an annotated edition.

The southern state of Bavaria, which holds the rights, has not permitted reprints of the vicious anti-Semitic tract and rambling memoir since the Nazi leader's 1945 suicide.

Around 870,000 images of New York City and its operations have been made available online to the public for the first time, retracing 160 years of the Big Apple's history.

The new site, www.nyc.gov/records, was so popular that it was unavailable on Wednesday, a day after its official launch.

Armenians around the world Tuesday marked the 97th anniversary of the World War I massacre of their ancestors by Ottoman Turks, rekindling anger at Turkey for denying the deaths were genocide.

Thousands took part in an annual procession to a hilltop memorial in the Armenian capital Yerevan, carrying candles and flowers to lay at the eternal flame at the center of the monument commemorating the mass killings in what was then the Ottoman Empire.