Topic: Europe
Indian chess champion Viswanathan Anand and his Israeli rival Boris Gelfand agreed Saturday to play a $2.5-million series of matches in a historic Moscow art gallery for the 2012 world crown.The May 10-21 series will be played inside Moscow's Tretyakov State Gallery ...
German magician Jan Rouven is a bona fide star in Europe. His shows fill stadiums. Fans stop him for autographs at grocery stores and malls. Camera crews follow him around filming reality TV shows. But his fame hasn't carried across the Atlantic. ...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov sees a hole in the European education system and he knows how to fix it -- one pawn at a time.Aspiring to hone children's critical thinking, intellectual creativity and problem-solving skills, Kasparov, regarded ...
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said Tuesday sales of its new 3DS handheld game player had been weaker than expected in the US and Europe, as well as in Japan where the quake hit consumer sentiment.The 3DS, the world's first video game console ...
REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - An Icelandic court said on Thursday the widow of former world chess champion Bobby Fischer should inherit his estimated $2 million estate, which has been in dispute since his death in 2008.Fischer spent the last years of his life ...
Striezelmarkt in Dresden is one of Germany's oldest Christmas markets and is still doing a roaring trade. On offer are traditional crafts and festive food and drink, including the heart-warming 'Gluehwein'. Duration: 02:0888748355&bid=informcom" /> Copyright 2010  AFP Global Edition
A decrepit satellite dish points skyward from a deserted radio outpost that once broadcast from the West to the Communist bloc: ex-Soviet Europe is star guest at a top photography fair in Paris this week.Intimate, burlesque or political: some 90 photographers from ...
Gunsmiths in colonial times repaired guns and produced long rifles. In Europe, gun parts such as barrels, stocks, locks and fittings were jobbed out to specialists for quality and efficiency. For repairs and manufacture, gunsmiths used hand tools that came from England. ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Activision Blizzard Inc said Thursday it sold about 5.6 million copies of "Call of Duty: Black Ops" for $360 million on its first day, setting a new record for the video game industry."Black Ops" is a gritty military-themed ...
The development of book collecting in Europe is tied to cycles of social, political, and religious unrest. Concurrently, the German wars of religion were instrumental in the development of the great German libraries, such as the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbuttel. In ...
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