On May 17-18 the residents and guests of the city will have an opportunity to visit 20 museums at night, including the State Museum of Political History (the former mansion of prima ballerina Mathilde Kschessinskaya), the Museum of Feodor Dostoevsky,

Blue tarps drape the spires of the ancient Shwedagon Paya temple complex in Yangon, Myanmar (Burma), on May 12, nine days after Cyclone Nargis ripped through the region. Constructed 2,500 years ago, the complex is one of Myanmar's most famous

A 9-year-old girl who went to the hospital in central Greece suffering from stomach pains was found to be carrying her embryonic twin, doctors said Thursday. Doctors at Larissa General Hospital examined the girl and surgically removed a growth they

The Moscow government is going to reduce the number of souvenir shops at the Old Arbat Street. Instead the officials are planning to open street bookstalls in order to convert the street in the most "intelligent" avenue in Mocsow. The

The world has been introduced to the true face of Julius Caesar with the discovery in a river in southern France of a bust that was sculpted in the lifetime of the Roman leader. The marble sculpture, found in the

An immigrant family left a 23-month-old boy in the Vancouver airport and learned he was missing only when contacted during the next leg of the trip. Jun Parreno, the boy's father, told The Vancouver Sun the mix-up occurred Monday as

The display features more than 100 paintings and graphic works (mainly dating from 1980s to 2000s) by Pavel Nikonov from the collections of the State Russian Museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery, and the other museums of Russia as well as

Train movement to Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow will likely to be launched on June 12. The newly built railway station at the airport and the rail track from the airport to Savelovsky Railway Station is to be inspected by

Southwest Airlines says a passenger who refused to get off his cell phone during a flight found Dallas police waiting for him. The Dallas Morning News reports that police were summoned by Southwest officials and met the jet Monday when

The Vatican's chief astronomer says that believing in aliens does not contradict faith in God.The Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, said that the vastness of the universe means it is possible there could be

16 May - 14 September 2008. Halls 339 - 342 of the Winter Palace. This project is a continuation of the Italian Kinetic Movement exhibition, which took place in the State Hermitage Museum in 2006. The new exhibition includes 40

A New York City man is suing JetBlue Airways Corp. for more than $2 million because he says a pilot made him give up his seat to a flight attendant and sit on the toilet for more than three hours

The exhibition of the famous art collection of Rostropovich-Vishnevskaya was launched on May 12 at the majestic imperial-era Konstantin palace near St. Petersburg. Many important guests took place in the ceremony dedicated to the long-awaited opening. Among them were the

From April to October, 2008, on Saturdays at 12.00 a.m. in the Cathedral Square of the Moscow Kremlin a demonstration of the ceremonial of the equestrian and pedestrian procession of the President regiment takes place. On the last Saturday of

The way the warden sees it, the more than 400-pound black bear living in the middle of the sprawling Louisiana State Penitentiary is an extra layer of security. "I love that bear being right where it is," Warden Burl Cain

A street named after Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975), a Russian composer of the Soviet period is likely to appear in St. Petersburg in near future. According to Saint-Petersburg.ru, the initiative is coming from Nikolai Burov, the head of Culture Committee of

A popular expedition project "The Baikal Ice" or "Following the Baikal Ice-2008" organized by the Irkutsk-based company "The Baikal Visa", will start on May 25 in the village of Listvyanka near Lake Baikal. At this time the ice covering the

Spain formally has laid claim to an 1804 shipwreck that yielded a reported U.S. $500 million treasure, saying Spain has proof the vessel was Spanish. Officials demanded the return of the booty recovered last year by a U.S. deep-sea exploration

Three human skulls being sent to Britain were seized at Indonesia's international airport, according to a local customs officer. The sponge-wrapped skulls were packed in separate boxes and labeled as handicrafts, said Eko Darmanto, chief of customs at Jakarta's airport.

Hundreds of unmapped villages have been discovered in a Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) rainforest, it has been revealed.Those embarking on gap year travel to the DRC could now have the opportunity to visit these unexplored pockets of culture, which