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| UpdatedA French court hands down a two-year suspended sentence to a former electrician and his wife for hiding 271 Picasso works in their garage for close to 40 years.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, arts-and-entertainment, visual-art, courts-and-trials, france
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| UpdatedA fashion relic of the late eighties and nineties, the humble scrunchie finds a new lease on life preventing the slaughter of wildlife by domestic cats.
Topics: animals, animals-and-nature, human-interest, environment, wa
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A mysterious photo of a young Iranian boy takes out one of Australia's biggest photography prizes.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, library-museum-and-gallery, awards-and-prizes, photography, canberra-2600, act, iran-islamic-republic-of
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| UpdatedBurnie writer Marjorie Davey publishes her first full-length novel at the age of 95, telling the story of Port Arthur's convict boys.
Topics: books-literature, history, history-education, port-arthur-7182
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Thicke and Williams' 2013 hit Blurred Lines is at risk of extinction unless Marvin Gaye is credited and his family receive a share of profits.
Topics: music, copyright, united-states
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| UpdatedAlan Rickman's new film A Little Chaos tackles issues facing women from past to present.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, film-movies, human-interest, people, director, theatre, england, united-kingdom, australia
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| UpdatedThe judgement against Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams for copyright infringement over their song Blurred Lines has brought into focus the merits and pitfalls of copyright law. Listen to these eight songs and rate how similar you think they are.
Topics: copyright, music, arts-and-entertainment, laws, united-states
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| UpdatedNintendo Co shares notch their biggest daily gain in more than 30 years after the video game company announced a venture into smartphones.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, markets, arts-and-entertainment, games-industry, japan
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| UpdatedThe West Australian Symphony Orchestra will perform in Beijing in 2017, the culmination of a program aimed at strengthening ties with one of the state's most important trade partners.
Topics: music, opera-and-musical-theatre, wa
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With the nearest beach 1,500 kilometres away, Alice Springs is not known for its surf breaks, but a bunch of daredevils are trying to change that.
Topics: surfing, extreme-sports, alice-springs-0870
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More than $8 million worth of 20th-century art is donated to the National Gallery of Australia from the estate of an unassuming public servant who died in Canberra last year.
Topics: art-history, contemporary-art, library-museum-and-gallery, canberra-2600, act
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Could I really accept money from a mining company to fund a project about Indigenous soldiers? Doesn't this raise questions on integrity? Yes, but sponsorship and integrity can co-exist.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, mining-industry, indigenous-culture
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Spanish archaeologists claim to have unearthed the remains of Don Quixote author Miguel de Cervantes in a Madrid convent almost 400 years after his death.
Topics: archaeology, books-literature, history, art-history, spain
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| UpdatedFrance's proposed crackdown on thin models purports to be about healthy body image, but it's also a reminder to girls that they are permanently being judged on their appearance.
Topics: fashion, womens-health, diet-and-nutrition
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| UpdatedCelebrations of St Patrick's Day all around the world are being documented on social media, throwing a spotlight on the best of Irish culture.
Topics: carnivals-and-festivals, community-and-society, social-media, australia
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| UpdatedOne of Sydney's landmarks, the Bondi Pavilion, is set for a makeover, with expressions of interest being sought from the world's best heritage architects to refurbish the 90-year-old building.
Topics: architecture, history, bondi-beach-2026, bondi-2026, waverley-2024
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| UpdatedAn extraordinary admission off camera, but caught on microphone, has resulted in a former three-time murder suspect being charged again.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, law-crime-and-justice, television, courts-and-trials, united-states
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Italian designers Dolce and Gabbana accuse Elton John of being authoritarian, ignorant and hypocritical in a row over IVF babies, escalating a spat that has embroiled some of the world's biggest stars.
Topics: fashion, design, parenting, family-and-children, community-and-society, italy, united-kingdom, england
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| UpdatedFrance's government is likely to back a bill banning excessively thin fashion models as well as potentially fining the modelling agency or fashion house that hires them, the health minister says.
Topics: fashion, arts-and-entertainment, eating-disorders, laws, france
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Two allegedly fake Brett Whiteley paintings at the centre of fraud allegations appear to have been created after the artist died, a court has heard.
Topics: contemporary-art, fraud-and-corporate-crime, courts-and-trials, vic