Companies in Asia have mostly applied 'wait-and-see' or 'back-burner' IT tactics during the last year or more, but it is not expected to work as the economy starts to turn again, according to research and analytics firm IDC. Read More
The United Nations cultural organization has granted the 2009 Avicenna Prize for Ethics in Science to Chinese scientist Qiu Renzong. Read More
Chinese professor Qiu Renzong received the 2009 Avicenna Prize for Ethics in Science here on Friday at the headquarters of the Paris-based United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Read More
Doubts have been raised over the authenticity of a 'Michelangelo' work of art which cost the Italian government 2.9 million pounds. Read More
Oxford Bookstore, in association with Cedar Books, launched Tagore's Riddle Plays, a translation of Rabindranath Tagore's Hasya Kautuk by eminent academician Nilanjana Basu Kaul on Wednesday. Read More
The Suspicious Cheese Lords are one of the more original acts in the local classical music world. Read More
A painting by Leonardo da Vinci has gone on display in Scotland, six years after its alleged theft from a stately home. Read More
About 40 children from a home for orphans here were awed by replicas of Leonardo da Vinci's inventions at the National Science Centre yesterday. Read More
Michelangelo's towering reputation as the quintessential Renaissance man — architect, painter, sculptor, poet and engineer — intimidated both his contemporaries and later historians to the point that the adjective "divine" became a fixture attached to his name. Read More
The Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi was arguably the most important musician of the first half of the 17th century. Read More
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