Offbeat

DOHA, Qatar: Al-Jazeera is the Middle East and North Africa’s most-watched Arabic-language television channel, followed by Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya, according to an independent survey, the Qatar-based

NAPLES, Italy: The first-ever statue of Pope Francis has been unveiled in a potato field near Naples — an unorthodox homage to the fact that the Argentine pope’s ancestors were farmers in northern

LONDON: Two microscope slides bearing the blood of former Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi went on sale in London yesterday and are expected to fetch from 10,000 pounds to 15,000 pounds ($ 15,200-$ 22,800

TORONTO: A new app launched on Monday aims to bring William Shakespeare’s sonnets to the masses with the help of short films starring stage actors performing them in front of New York landmarks.

Impressive! Remarkable! “Sea of Pearls” is indeed a masterpiece!

On a snowy February night in downtown Bologna, dinner’s cooking in a first-floor apartment overlooking the Piazza San Francesco and its imposing 13th-century red-b

Shipwrecks lying deep off America’s coasts are more often historical artifacts than present-day threats from leaking old oil tanks, a new federal report says.

Some spectators at London’s Chelsea Flower Show wouldn’t be caught dead with one in the boot of their Bentley, but garden gnomes have turned up at the show&r

NEW YORK: Unilever claimed bragging rights Monday to the most-watched Internet commercial of all time — a three-minute study of women’s self-perception that stars a forensic artist.

NEW YORK: A six-cord electric guitar that Beatles John Lennon and George Harrison played went under the hammer for $ 408,000, Julien’s Auctions said Sunday.