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Berlin red light district turns into art hub

BERLIN - A shabby area of Berlin best known for its curb-crawling prostitutes and drug dealers is recovering some of the Bohemian allure of its glory days in the 1920s as low rents and its central location lure art galleries.

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Story by Pultizer Prize winner serialized on Twitter

NEW YORK - A story by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan for the New Yorker is being serialized in 10 installments on Twitter, according to the magazine.

25 May 2012

Book Talk: Author explores Jewish sect she left

TOKYO - Like the characters of her book, Anouk Markovits grew up inside the strict Satmar Hasidic Jewish sect, where reading novels was frowned upon and she was expected to wed in an arranged marriage at a young age.

24 May 2012

Bounty hunter on the trail of Arab Spring loot

GENEVA - Growing up in Africa, he used to hunt buffalo, a passion that still serves Geneva-based lawyer Enrico Monfrini well. His dogged pursuit of ill-gotten assets has made him the scourge of many of the world's dictators and kleptocrats.

24 May 2012

Church of England nears vote on women bishops

LONDON - The Church of England paved the way on Thursday for a final vote on women bishops to go ahead in July, but supporters angry at last-minute concessions to traditionalists who favour an all-male clergy immediately threatened to scupper it.

25 May 2012

Dig "proves" Bethlehem existed centuries pre-Jesus

JERUSALEM - Israeli archaeologists said on Wednesday they had discovered the first physical evidence supporting Old Testament accounts of Bethlehem's existence centuries before the town became revered as the birthplace of Jesus.

23 May 2012

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A selection of our best photos from India from the past seven days.

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