Located in southern Italy, the Mediterranean port city of Naples is one of the most ancient in Europe, and its contemporary urban fabric preserves the elements of its long and eventful history that date back to the 9th century BC. The rectangular grid layout of the ancient Greek settlement of Neapolis is still discernible in the historic center of the city, which was listed as world heritage by UNESCO in 1995.
In 1879, Spanish entrepreneur Rafael Sanchez Romero founded 5J Cinco Jotas to offer meats from 100-percent Iberian black pigs, an animal species descended directly from the prehistoric Mediterranean boar.
Attila Balint is showing his romantic side this summer. Not only is he newly married, but he's found a way to express his enchantment with the Forbidden City, one of his favorite places in Beijing.
China always made Fadhhili Mpunji curious. The 42-year-old journalist from Tanzania was familiar with Chinese during his childhood: They stayed in his hometown to help operate a railway built by a Chinese company in the late 1970s.
Pattie Boyd, who was married to musicians George Harrison and Eric Clapton at different times, on Tuesday unveiled two of her iconic outfits that formed part of her exhibition George, Eric and Me at The Beatles Story in Liverpool. One of the exhibits, a jacket and short skirt, was made especially for Boyd by The Fool, while she bought the other outfit, a floaty Thea Porter dress, in Italy for an Italian Vogue shoot in 1970.
At a meeting with the venerable Buddhist monk Jingkong, Malaysia's former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad once asked him if there would be peace in the world.
Globally recognized kung fu giant Jackie Chan's latest film Skiptrace has raked in 400 million yuan ($60 million) in its first weekend, to top the box-office charts. But fans are calling it a hodgepodge of cliches. Xu Fan reports.
Cinematic ties between China and Australia are set for a quantum jump as the upcoming China Australia Film Festival will see the launch of a big-budget coproduction by the two countries.
Over 10 years ago, Shandong Acrobatic Troupe, one of China's best, was in trouble. Like many traditional art forms of China, acrobatics faced losing audiences, especially the younger generation.
Legends say that a Chinese princess secretly took the silk-making technology out of the country to her husband, the king of ancient Khotan.
The Chinese version of the drama War Horse will return to Beijing from Friday to Aug 14.
Beyonce on Tuesday led nominations for the MTV Video Music Awards as she basked in acclaim for her film-album Lemonade.
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