The Getty Museum has said it is returning a 17th century Dutch painting looted by the Nazis during World War II to the heirs of Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker.Goudstikker fled the Netherlands just before the Nazis invaded the country in 1940, leaving behind a splendid art collection that included "Landscape with Cottage and Figures,"…

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and] beatings of protestors." This ruthless use of force against unarmed civilians was carried out not by Muammar Gaddafi, but by King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa, the ruler of Bahrain, and backed up by troops from Saudi Arabia. And yet even as Western warplanes prepared to launch air strikes on Libya to stop Gaddafi's aggression,…

Japanese engineers are struggling to gain control of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo, which was seriously damaged by a March 11 earthquake and tsunami.Two of the six reactors at the plant, operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO), are considered stable but the other four are volatile.Following…

Americans clamoring to adopt children of the Japan tsunami's victims will likely be disappointed. Tony Dokoupil on what happens to orphans in a country where adoption is virtually unheard of.Days after the earth heaved and waves pummeled northern Japan, Western comment boards and blogs lit up over the fate of the tsunami's most vulnerable victims:…

s disastrous Trump Roast stand-up act, “Jersey Shore” star Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino is coming to D.C., and perhaps he’ll even talk politics.The Situation, who delivered a heavily booed performance at last week’s Comedy Central event for conservative billionaire Donald Trump, is not the first “Jersey Shore” cast member to venture to the nation’s capital.…

CNN’s highly-anticipated new show “Piers Morgan Tonight” premiered last night to 2.1 million viewers.So how did his numbers rank among the competing cable news networks?His ratings crushed MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” by over one million viewers, but failed to surpass the reigning king of the 9pm timeslot, “Hannity.”Fox News’s powerhouse Sean Hannity boasted 2.4…

Fox has turned down a Super Bowl television ad from comedy site JesusHatesObama.com, according to the site’s creator, L.A.-based comedian Richard Belfry.The thirty-second commercial ad, set to “Battle Hymn of the Republic,”depicts two adjacent bobblehead figures, one being President Barack Obama and the other a pouting Jesus. The Obama doll excessively shakes his head until…

CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt's president gave the first indication Saturday he was preparing an eventual handover of power by naming a vice-president for the first time in 30 years after protests that have rocked the foundations of the state.Hosni Mubarak's decision to pick Omar Suleiman, his intelligence chief and confidant, as his No. 2 is…

A wedding toast puts the father of the groom on the spot in the world premiere of A.R. Gurney's comedy Black Tie, which begins previews Off-Broadway Jan. 25 at 59E59 Theaters.Mark Lamos, who staged the premieres of Gurney's Indian Blood and Buffalo Gal, helms the Primary Stages production, which will officially open Feb. 8 for…