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Sotheby's sets poison pill against investor challenge
People walk past a carpet on their way to a Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong on October 6, 2008(©AFP/File) Elite auction house Sotheby’s on Friday adopted a poison-pill defense strategy to fend off a...
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Anger, gloom as French journalists mourn slain colleagues
A picture shows the logo of French radio station Radio France Internationale (RFI) with a piece of black tape across it as a sign of mourning at the RFI headquarters in Paris on November 3, 2013© AFP...
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Mali ‘arrests 12 suspects in French journalists’ murder’
Malian soldiers carry the coffin of a Radio France Internationale (RFI) journalist killed in Kidal on November 2, 2013© ECPAD/AFP/File by Gilles Gesquiere Around a dozen suspects have been arrested...
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Twitter key source for ‘mobile’ news: survey
A person poses with a cell phone in front of a computer screen to check Barack Obama’s tweet on November 7, 2012© AFP/File by Lionel Bonaventure Twitter is finding a niche among younger US adults who...
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Sri Lanka media activists fear crackdown after arrests
Sunil Jayasekera, spokesman for the Sri Lankan Free Media Movement (FMM), talks to journalists in Colombo on November 4, 2013© AFP by Lakruwan Wanniarachchi A media rights group Monday expressed fears...
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East Africa art on rise as Kenya holds first commercial auction
Circle auction organiser Rose Jepkorir displays a painting for the first commercial auction of east African art on November 4, 2013 in Nairobi, on the eve of the the auction© AFP by Simon Maina Kenyan...
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Unknown Chagall among works in ‘Nazi art trove’
A building in Munich’s Schwabing district where art masterpieces stolen by the Nazis were discovered in a flat, pictured on November 4, 2013© AFP by Christof Stache Previously unknown masterpieces by...
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Watchdog slams Egypt for curbing press freedom
People help out Egyptian photographer Sabry Khaled (C-L) after he was beaten by supporters of the Muslim brotherhood outside the Police Academy where his trial is taking place on November 4, 2013, in...
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Murdoch’s Fox posts profit of $1.3 bn
News Corp’s Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch, speaks in Sydney on October 31, 2013© AFP/File by William West Rupert Murdoch’s media-entertainment group 21st Century Fox on Tuesday reported a profit...
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Kadhafi’s jailed son appears on Libya TV
Seif al-Islam Kadhafi, son of slain Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi, seen at his father’s residential complex in Tripoli on August 23, 2011© AFP/File by Imed Lamloum Slain Libyan leader Moamer...
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Reuters orders broad editorial staff cuts
Thomson Reuters announced in a statement it would be making reductions, but offered no figures(©Getty Images/AFP/File) The Reuters news agency is cutting some five percent of its editorial staff, a...
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'Shield' law prompts soul-searching by news media
US Senator Lindsey Graham (C) speaks during a news conference about media shield legislation at the US Capitol July 17, 2013 in Washington, DC(©Getty Images/AFP/File) A media “shield” law being...
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Stars of Asian cinema gather for Busan film festival
A worker stands near a display for the 18th Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) in Busan on October 2, 2013(©AFP) Stars of Asian cinema gathered in the South Korean port city of Busan Thursday as...
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Italian weekly says new Leonardo painting found
People visit an exhibition of drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, on August 29, 2013 in Venice(©AFP/File) An Italian weekly said in its Friday edition that a new painting by Leonardo da Vinci of...
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Pakistani journalist kidnapped in tribal area
Pakistani soldiers stand on a secured location in troubled South Waziristan, on November 17, 2009(©AFP/File) Gunmen have kidnapped a journalist from one of Pakistan’s tribal areas on the Afghan...
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Colourful geisha trainees hit grey Tokyo streets
Five trainee geishas try to drum up tourist custom for the ancient city of Kyoto during a photo opportunity in Tokyo, on October 4, 2013(©AFP) Trainee Japanese geishas wearing colourful kimonos and...
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Hong Kong tattoo convention aims to make its mark
A man gets a tattoo at the Hong Kong Tattoo Convention on October 4, 2013(©AFP) Visitors flocked Friday to a Hong Kong tattoo convention, the first to be held in the southern Chinese city where...
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Warhol paintings up for sale in New York could fetch $120 mn
"Self-Portrait" by Andy Warhol on display in New York, January 24, 2011(©AFP/File) Two masterpieces by US artist Andy Warhol go under the hammer in New York next month, with the highlights of the...
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Matisse cut-outs going on show in London
Visitors look at the art work "Nu bleu IV" by French artist Henri Matisse at the Matisse Museum on June 20, 2013 in Nice, southeastern France(©AFP/File) The biggest exhibition of Matisse’s paper...
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The German Political System
Germany’s current political system came into existence following the proclamation of the Basic Law – German’s constitution – in 1949. The Federal Republic of Germany currently operates under the...
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