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Iranian director and screenwriter and producer Jafar Panahi poses with the trophy during a photocall after winning the Palme d'Or for the film "Un simple accident" (A Simple Accident) during the closing ceremony at the 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France.--AFP

Iran Cannes winner Panahi backs trucker strikes

Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi backed week-long nationwide strikes by truckers Wednesday as a 'loud call' to the authorities, after arriving home from his triumph at the Cannes film festival. Truck drivers across Iran were striking for a s...

A picture shows miniatures at the London Dollhouse Showcase in London.--AFP photos

In troubled world, grown-ups find joy in doll's houses

A log burns in the hearth in the artfully lit drawing room. The armchairs look plush and inviting. Glasses and a bottle of wine stand ready as a grandfather clock keeps time. It is all straight out of a glossy magazine and yet every carefully crafte...

Employees of Halk Ekmek (Public bread, in Turkish) mix and cut dough in order to make Kulluoba breads.--AFP photos

Ancient bread rises again as Turkey recreates 5,000-year-old loaf

In the early Bronze Age, a piece of bread was buried beneath the threshold of a newly built house in what is today central Turkey. Now, more than 5,000 years later, archaeologists have unearthed it, and helped a local bakery to recreate the recipe -...

South African actor Presley Chweneyagae poses for a photo in Paris on June 20, 2006, before the French premiere screening of the Oscar-winning urban drama "Tsotsi". --AFP

S.Africa's 'Tsotsi' star Presley Chweneyagae dies

South African actor Presley Chweneyagae, star of the Oscar-winning South African film 'Tsotsi', has died at the age of 40, his agent announced Tuesday. Chweneyagae gained international fame in 2006 when the movie set in the criminal underw...

A select group of faithful known as "Anastenarides" take part in a trance-like preparatory dance.

Fire walkers defy pain in ancient Greek ritual

Under a cloud of incense smoke, a group of men and women in a village in northern Greece swayed slowly to the music before removing their shoes and rushing, barefoot, onto waiting embers. The fire walking ritual, held on the day of the Orthodox feas...

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