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Imagine an empty gallery in a museum. It's just you, a 200-year-old masterpiece and the quiet. The brush strokes of a Rembrandt painting draw you in, and with your hands behind your back, you lean in to study the colors and textures.

"Avengers: Endgame" is smashing all kinds of box office records in China.

British broadcaster ITV has suspended "The Jeremy Kyle Show" and launched a review of the long-running program after a guest died shortly after taping an episode.

For years it was a rite of passage for European holidaymakers visiting another country on the continent -- the dreaded phone bill on the return home.

The Premier League title race between Manchester City and Liverpool went down to the wire but there were to be no final twists in what's been a thrilling tale.

Pakistan will receive around $6 billion in a bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) it was announced Sunday, the thirteenth time the South Asian country has received financing from the IMF in 30 years.

The call to prayer at Emine Inanc mosque brings together immigrants who have found sanctuary in Istanbul's working-class Zeytinburnu neighborhood.

The UK's failure to leave the European Union has created an almighty headache in Brussels.

Kim Joon-hyup recently went on his first date in three years. But the 24-year-old student wasn't looking for a girlfriend, he was completing a college assignment.

A French hostage in Burkina Faso, freed in an overnight rescue this week in which two soldiers were killed, described the experience as "hell."

The governments of 187 countries have agreed to control the movement of plastic waste between national borders, in an effort to curb the world's plastic crisis -- but the United States was not among them.

Transgenic silk garments that emit a neon glow, sartorial burial suits embedded with flesh-eating microbes, and a bouquet of perfume notes derived from the DNA of extinct flora are just a few of the mind-bending works of design presented in "Nature," this year's Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial program.

Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic and Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin are competing to be the first to send a tourist into space. But Branson says it doesn't matter to him.

Just days after they appeared to be on the verge of brokering a deal, the United States and China are fighting a trade war again.

Mike Walsh was busy trying to manage his doomed software company in 2009 when he agreed to take a 15 minute meeting with a little-known figure in the tech industry named Ryan Graves.

Over the last decade, Uber raised unprecedented amounts of funding from a who's who of investors to pave the road for its rapid expansion into cities around the world. Now, as Uber finally becomes a public company, some of those investors and Uber's founding team are set to make billions.

One day after a Facebook co-founder called for the company to be broken up, Mark Zuckerberg met with a man with the power to influence whether that actually happens.

Murals in Lower Manhattan tell the stories of trafficking victims, in a campaign to raise awareness of the global issue affecting 40 million people.

Experts working on the restoration of Emperor Nero's vast palace in Rome have stumbled upon a secret, underground room decorated with panthers, centaurs and a sphinx.