For the first time in its history, the French capital's iconic Louvre Museum opened up its storied arcades Tuesday to fashion: a catwalk show by Italian house Salvatore Ferragamo.

Proof enough of the unique setting of this collection lay with the celebrity-filled front row — from actresses Freida Pinto and Leighton Meester to Oscar-winner Hilary Swank.

It is one of the biggest relics left behind by the Nazis, perched on one of Germany's most spectacular beaches, and after years of neglect it is getting a new lease of life.

The historic dormitory complex at Prora, built between 1936 and 1939, sprawls nearly five kilometers (three miles) along a choice slab of Baltic Sea coastline.

Almost 200 years after Prussian and English troops defeated Napoleon at Waterloo, Belgian archeologists have unearthed the complete remains of a young soldier in what they dubbed a rare find.

"You can almost see him dying," Belgian archeologist Dominique Bosquet said of the skeleton, lying on its back with the spherical musket bullet that felled the soldier still between his ribs.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that Kurdish would be taught in public schools, "a historic step" for Turkey.

"Our pupils ... will now be able to learn Kurdish as optional courses if there is a sufficient number (of students)," Erdogan told his ruling party members in the parliament.

Madrid's Thyssen Museum opens Tuesday an exhibition of works by Edward Hopper, one of the largest retrospectives of works by the iconic U.S. artist ever to be shown in Europe.

The "Hopper" show features 73 paintings, drawings, prints and watercolors by the 20th-century realist dubbed the painter of American loneliness and isolation.

France's Louvre museum stepped in Monday and snapped up a historic sculpture for its collection after it was auctioned off for 3.75 million euros ($4.68 million).

A private collector had successfully bid, via telephone, or the marble bust by 18th century sculptor Edme Bouchardon at Drouot's auction house in Paris, when the museum exercised its prerogative to claim the work for the state.

On a heavily trafficked street where few tourists pass in the heart of ancient Rome lies the entrance to one of the Eternal City's most extraordinary and overlooked monuments -- Trajan's Market.

Built in the second century AD as a series of vaulted offices for managers of the nearby Trajan Forum headed up by a "procurator", the architectural complex has served as a fortress, a convent and a barracks over the centuries.

The American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon’s leading liberal arts university, inaugurated its new gallery space, the AUB Art Gallery, with the first major public exhibition of the works of influential Lebanese artist Khalil Saleeby (1870-1928), one of the founders of modern art in the Arab world, a press release said Monday.

The inaugural exhibition, which was previewed by guests at a private view held at the weekend, opens to the public on June 12, 2012 and runs until November 2012.

Chinese archaeologists have unearthed 110 new terracotta warriors that laid buried for centuries, an official said Monday, part of the famed army built to guard the tomb of China's first emperor.

The life-size figures were excavated near the Qin Emperor's mausoleum in China's northern Xi'an city over the course of three years, and archaeologists also uncovered 12 pottery horses, parts of chariots, weapons and tools.

A rare letter in English written by Napoleon Bonaparte -- and replete with errors -- fetched 325,000 euros ($406,445) at an auction Sunday in Paris.

The one-page letter, dated March 9, 1816, penned by Napoleon during his post-Waterloo exile on the South Atlantic island of Saint Helena, was one of just three known in the world, said auction house Osenat.