In the mid-1990s, I'd regularly head into my local family hardware store - a clueless homeowner with a broken this or that resigned to spending $100-plus on some replacement.
"I'm very happy with the issue of the decree and this is a historic day for all Saudi girls in the Kingdom."
The National Art Museum of China is for the first time using its 17 exhibition halls to trace the artistic evolution and influence of a single province.
Italian artist and art historian Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) published one of Michelangelo's two biographies during the Florentine artist's lifetime. He is also known for writing other artists' biographies.
The French celebrated their national day on the weekend, an occasion that inspires plenty of Champagne-swilling and fine dining.
It's easy to find cold brews on summer days, but here's a twist: a journey back to the alcoholic beverages that people drank thousands of years ago.
MIAMI - It's hard to eat right all the time, but making small improvements by choosing healthier foods now and then may significantly boost one's chances of living longer, says a US study.
A dozen artists are presenting an exhibition by simulating sight, smell, touch and sound at the M. Woods Museum in Beijing.
LONDON - Academic "time detectives" from Liverpool have used 3-D digital technology to reveal the face of a Bronze Age farmer who lived in middle England 4,000 years ago. Experts from Face Lab at Liverpool John Moores University used the technology based on a study of the man's skull.
JINAN - A Confucius museum under construction in the hometown of the ancient Chinese educator and philosopher will be home to more than 700,000 relics, including well-known Confucius family documents, sources with the museum said on Saturday.
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