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Berlin Opera Houses Fight Unification

Leading fgures in classical music are protesting a merger of the two halls

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Culture Minister Slammed in Iran

'Permissive' Ata'ollah Mohajerani offers to resign

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Kidnapper Releases Indian Film Star

Rajkumar freed by mountain brigand after 108 days

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Rwanda Rediscovers Music

South African star Lucky Dube plays a free concert in Kigali

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Klimt Works Returned

An Austrian gallery is ordered to hand the paintings back to their Jewish former owners

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A Russian Puzzle

'The Taking Of Ismail' is the surprise winner of the Smirnoff-Booker Prize

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Iran Loses Culture Tsar

Arts figures bemoan the resignation of Ata'ollah Mohajerani

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Nigerian State Bans Film

Authorities say video production contradicts Sharia law

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Why 2000 Belonged to the Net

A look back at a decisive year in how we consume the arts

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The Second Harlem Renaissance

A special report from New York on the African-American arts explosion

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Uproar in Bombay

Arrests over underworld connections shock the Indian film industry

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The Cairo Book Fair Hits Trouble

The Muslim Brotherhood attacks the 'pornographic' content of state-published books

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The Verdi Centenary

The composer is 'part of the country's very identity' says Italy's culture minister

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Drawing Dissent

The importance of satirical cartoons in southern Africa

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'Ulysses' Film Opens At Last

Ireland overturns ban after 34 years

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The End of Napster

A judge in California closes down the music download site

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Adieu Charles Trenet

France mourns its 'singing fool'

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The Taliban Attacks the Arts

Statues in Afghanistan are deemed 'un-Islamic'

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Hollywood Writers' Strike Looms

Studios are struggling to avoid industrial action from 1 May

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Tierney Gearon in Hot Water

The US photographer falls foul of Britain's Vice Squad

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Philippines Film Censor Condemns Government

Nicanor Tiongson has resigned in protest at 'religious bigotry'

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Mexico's Man of Mystery

How Subcomandante Marcos became an icon of resistance

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Turkmenistan Clamps Down on the Arts

President Saparmurat Niyazov orders the opera house to be closed

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Iranian Art Debuts in Europe

London's Barbican Gallery welcomes the country's contemporary art

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Is Nadine Gordimer a Racist?

Teachers attack the South African Nobel Laureate's novel 'July's People'

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South Korea's Japan Problem

A pop video is re-igniting ill feeling between the two countries

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'Cultural Revolution' in Venezuela

President Hugo Ch谩vez's arts policy comes under fire

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Chinese Ballet Takes a Step Too Far

Zhang Yimou adapts his film 'Raise The Red Lantern'

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The Media Baron Prime Minister

Italy re-elects self-made millionaire Silvio Berlusconi

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'On The Road' on the Block

Jack Kerouac's original manuscript goes up for auction in New York

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