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| New York's Met museum to continue suggested admission fee | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City and its famed Metropolitan Museum of Art have amended their lease to formalize the practice of charging a "recommended" admission fee while still allowing visitors to pay any amount they choose. |
| Serving Museum Patrons Something More | | | With the opening of a multimillion-dollar restaurant, the Brooklyn Museum joins the ranks of culture centers offering high-end dining experiences to their visitors. |
| London Zoo tiger cub drowns | | | Keepers at London Zoo are "distraught" after a newborn tiger cub -- the first Sumatran tiger born there for 17 years -- drowned in a pool at its enclosure. |
| Mountain mirrors to bring light to dark Norwegian town | | | Oct. 22 - Three giant mirrors have been erected on a mountainside in Norway, to bring much needed sunlight to residents of a small town. The town is situated at the bottom of a narrow valley where the sun doesn't shine during the long Nordic winter, but its hoped the mirrors will change all that and bring its residents out of the shade and into the light. Jim Drury reports. |
| China's most beautiful bookshop | | | No glamorous chandeliers, no extravagant faade -- to find the most beautiful bookshop in China, travelers just have to follow the yellow-striped road to an underground car park. |
| World's most extreme courses | | | From Greenland to Afghanistan to Bolivia playing golf in some of the world's wildest, most beautiful and most dangerous places. |
| Try the poor man's space travel | | | Part of the imagined charms of space flight is not just the view from the window. It is also the thrill of breaking the shackles of gravity and free-floating. Now taking a break from Newton's laws is easier (and cheaper) than ever. |
| Basketball Legendary coach dies | | | Basketball Hall of Famer Bill Sharman -- who won three NBA titles as a player, one as a head coach and five in his club's front office -- died Friday in southern California, his former teams said. |
| Saudi driving campaign gathers speed | | | Saudis have been awaiting October 26 anxiously. Organizers of an online campaign are hoping the date will mark a turning point in the history of Saudi Arabia, as women across the kingdom take their husbands, brothers or fathers' car keys and drive themselves across town in a show of independence, defiance and solidarity. While the issue of women driving is an important one in and of itself, some Saudis view it as just the latest in a series of struggles that have shaped the political trajectory of Saudi Arabia. |
| Impact Your World How to help | | | CNN Films' "Girl Rising" tells the stories of girls across the globe and the power of education to change the world. Are you inspired to help the cause of girls' education around the world? You can make an impact in many ways, but by just being aware of the issue, you can spread the word. By acting in your own community, you can make a global difference. |
| Superstorm Sandy Lessons not learnt | | | Adam Sobel says the immediate response was effective but not enough has been done to counter long-term threat of more flooding and severe storms |
| Lucian Freud's ghosts laid to rest with Vienna show | | | VIENNA (Reuters) - Lucian Freud did not live to see the first exhibition of his paintings in Vienna, the city his grandfather Sigmund fled in 1938, but he helped plan the retrospective that opens this week. |
| Sports Briefing | Soccer Fulham Wins Easily | | | Pajtim Kasami and Steve Sidwell both scored with spectacular volleys as Fulham came from behind to beat Crystal Palace, 4-1, in a Premier League game between relegation-threatened teams. |
| Britain calls for EU to set tougher climate goal | | | BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union needs to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent from 1990 levels by 2030 to avoid the worst effects of climate change, according to a British government paper, likely to fuel debate on whether deeper cuts are affordable. |
| EU Scandal may hit terror fight | | | European leaders warned Friday that reports of widespread spying on world leaders by the U.S. National Security Agency have raised "deep concerns" among Europeans and could affect the cooperation needed for effective intelligence gathering. |
| McIlroy in 'good shape' | | | Rory McIlroy leaves South Korea in "good shape" after finishing joint second at the Kolon Korean Open. |
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