Apple unveils new store design in San Francisco

(Reuters) - Apple Inc unveiled a new vision for its hugely successful retail stores on Thursday, aiming to give shoppers the experience of setting foot in the headquarters of the company credited...

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Skywatchers can see close, bright Mars looming large this month

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in a decade this month, providing sky-watchers with a celestial show from dusk to dawn starting this week, NASA said on...

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Romania calls on citizens to help buy Brancusi sculpture

BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romanians can collectively own a work of their greatest artist, the modernist giant Constantin Brancusi, by joining a government-led campaign to buy one of his sculptures.

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Auschwitz mug reveals jewelry hidden for more than 70 years

OSWIECIM, Poland (Reuters) - Staff at the Auschwitz museum have uncovered jewelry secretly hidden in an enamel mug since the liberation of the wartime Nazi death camp in 1945.

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Spain bans killing in controversial bull-lancing festival

MADRID (Reuters) - A bull-lancing festival known as "Toro de la Vega" (Bull of the Plain) which has spurred controversy in Spain will take place as usual in September but participants will no longer...

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Dogs to dust: pets get send-off with a human touch

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Chantal Detimmerman weeps at the funeral parlor as she spends a last few moments with her beloved Chico who has been prepared for cremation and laid out in a dog basket.

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Ai Weiwei's Greek show highlights 'shameful' response to refugee crisis

ATHENS (Reuters) - Beneath the Greek and EU flags flying outside the Athens museum hosting Ai Weiwei's new exhibition, the Chinese artist has hoisted his own to draw attention to what he calls...

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