An Italian court is to rule Wednesday on whether Leonardo da Vinci's iconic Vitruvian Man drawing can be loaned to France's Louvre, bringing to a head a bitter cultural row. The Venice court last week suspended the loan of the world famous artwork, due to appear later this month in an...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Samuel Fisher publishing house in Frankfurt, Germany, has recently published a novel to young Syrian writer, Nazir Hanafi Al-Ali, entitled Space Without Windows. The novel monitors issues of love, war, homeland, exile and human loss between injustice in his homeland...

Shares of Turkey’s Halkbank plunged as much 7% on Wednesday, despite a ban on short selling, after U.S. prosecutors charged the state-owned lender with taking part in a multibillion-dollar scheme to evade U.S. sanctions on Iran The announcement from U.S. prosecutors came a day after...

Kuwait’s 90-year-old ruler Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah returned home on Wednesday after hospital treatment in the United States, state news agency KUNA said. Sheikh Sabah has ruled the U.S. ally and OPEC oil producer since 2006 and steered its foreign policy for more than 50...