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In its 52-year history, the foreign-lingo category has often been one of the Oscars' most contentious, riddled with rule changes and mini-controversies. In 2005, for instance, French-language Austrian submission "Cache" was deemed ineligible because of its language-country discrepancy, causing...

Convention is at the core of our global mission of peace, development and human rights," U.N. New York Thursday. "The Convention is one of the most successful human rights treaties ever." Still, he cautioned, three decades after the treaty was...

The digital camera given to the animal by the keepers pops out raisins every time she presses the shutter. "It''s an attempt to see the world through her eyes and see what she thinks is important. She''s very artistic," the...

Wigan boss Roberto Martinez has urged Paul Scharner to see out his career with the club and nip in the bud potential speculation over his future in January. Midfielder Scharner has made more Premier League appearances than any other Latics...

A proposal to phase out private psychiatric care in Ohio prisons is under review by the State Controlling Board. The Department of Rehabilitation and Correction wants to bring 41 staff positions, including 26 psychiatrists, into the civil-service system as state...

Citing a report from the Philippine Embassy in Vienna, the Department of Foreign Affairs said the lanterns will light up the historic Peter Anich building in Oberperfuss. "The lights of the lanterns will be illuminated for the opening of the...

Chanoch and daughter   Photo: Moshe Zimmerman Film depicting Holocaust survivor's journey to be screened to Austrian students at Nazi camp Merav Yudilovitch   Prior to the screening, the movie will also be presented at the This Human World festival...

Vienna was host to a European far-right congress There was a neo-Nazi pitch invasion in Austria as Athletic de Bilbao went ahead on Thursday night in the Europa League. Vienna was full of right wing extremists who had travelled to...

The final concert in violinist Leonidas Kavakos's short Southbank residency was an evening of chamber music that drew a neat line under the centre's recent Schnittke festival. Joined by the viola player Antoine Tamestit and cellist Gautier Capuçon, Kavakos began...