PARIS (AP) - In a chaotic auction repeatedly interrupted by protests, dozens of Native American tribal masks were sold Friday after a French court ignored the objections of the Hopi tribe and the U.S. government. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
PARIS (AP) - A Paris auction house went ahead Friday with a contested sale of dozens of Native American tribal masks after winning a court ruling, despite appeals for a delay by the Hopi tribe, its supporters and the U.S. government. (Source: Associa... [Full Article]
TOKYO (AP) - On the sidewalks and the subways it's clear: Japan is becoming a sea of surgical masks. It's about pollen, about germs and even a little about China, its polluting rival across the sea. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
Volcanic eruptions, even small and moderate ones, might counter some of the effects of global warming, new research suggests. (Source: LiveScience.com)... [Full Article]
CAIRO (AP) - Egyptian witnesses say masked men blocked trains at a central Cairo subway station, standing on tracks and getting into fistfights with some waiting passengers who tried to stop them. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
CAIRO (AP) - An unpredictable new element has entered Egypt's wave of political unrest: a mysterious group of masked young men called the Black Bloc who present themselves as the defenders of protesters opposed to the Islamist president's r... [Full Article]
Nearly a week from regional elections, Algerians are less interested in the public vote than an intensifying behind-the-scenes power struggle - one that is playing out through a flurry of corruption probes. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
They asked for undies on heads, masks, and as much color as possible on Friday. They got all that plus a topless activist hacking down a cross in Ukraine, balaclavas on Soviet-era statues of soldiers in Bulgaria, and everywhere signs reading "Fr... [Full Article]
One of the key ideas behind the Russian punk provocateur band Pussy Riot was the supremacy of an idea over personality - thus the balaclavas that made the members both unrecognizable and fearsome. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
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