More than 1,000 ancient Egyptian artifacts and coffins found in tomb near Luxor
Archaeologists have discovered several sarcophagi and more than 1,000 various artifacts dating back to ancient Egyptian times near the country’s southern city of Luxor, Antiquities Minister Khaled al-Anani announced on Tuesday, when the World Heritage Day is being celebrated. The minister said that the discovery had been made in the Dra’ Abu el-Naga’ mountainous terrain near the famed Valley of the Kings. Egyptian archaeologists...
China wants to enter India’s flourishing car market
State-owned Chinese automaker SAIC Motor is in talks with three Indian states to start manufacturing, according to a company executive. “It’s a growing market, so we need to have a presence,” SAIC’s chief representative in India P. Balendran told CNNMoney. The company is also negotiating the possibility of taking over a plant, located in India’s westernmost state of Gujarat, which is currently owned by General...
Russia’s oldest actor Zeldin passes away at 101
Soviet and Russian stage and film legend, Vladimir Zeldin died early on Monday at the age of 101. Zeldin died in Moscow’s Sklifosovsky Institute of Emergency Medicine. He was hospitalized there on October 29 after undergoing treatment in a military hospital for three weeks. “Vladimir Mikhailovich died early in the morning. I received a phone call from the clinics where he had stayed recently. He had been in intensive care...
Swedish academy: Dylan says Nobel left him ‘speechless’
Bob Dylan has finally accepted his Nobel prize for literature, the Swedish Academy that awards it said Friday, breaking his silence on the win that he said left him “speechless”. Asked “if I accept the prize? Of course”, the US singer-songwriter said in a call to the academy this week, around a fortnight after he was named laureate on October 13. “The news about the Nobel Prize left me speechless,”...
England’s ‘most haunted village’ gears up for Halloween
With Halloween in the air, ghouls are set to emerge from the shadows in the quiet streets of Pluckley, reputedly the most haunted village in England. But it is not so much the ghosts that are spooking the inhabitants but the hordes of booze-fuelled thrill-seekers prowling around the settlement. “There’s always some people who mess around. The village generally would rather Halloween did not happen,” Chris Housman,...
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