A Scottish newspaper on Sunday published previously undisclosed files on the 1988 Pan Am bombing that killed hundreds over Lockerbie, arguing it is in the public interest to ignore data protection laws that have kept the documents from the public.

The Sunday Herald newspaper posted an 800-page report by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission to its website. It said it had been authorized to publish the documents by Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the only man convicted over the bombing that killed 270, mostly Americans, and who has long insisted he did not carry it out.

"Become a Christiania stockholder today!": on its Facebook page Copenhagen's "free city", long a refuge for hippies and artists and a popular tourist destination, pleas for help to save the 40-year-old enclave.

Following a court ruling, the self-governed hippie community needs to come up with 76 million kroner (10.2 million euros, $13.4 million) to buy the area at the heart of the Danish capital.

Taiwan loves cherry blossoms. In fact, it loves almost everything Japanese. For a nation that ruled the island for 50 years, often with an iron fist, Japan has left a very favorable impression.

In the latest triumph of Japanese soft power in its former colony, tens of thousands of Taiwanese have taken up planting cherry trees to revel in their colorful bloom for a few precious moments each spring -- just like in Japan.

The Louvre on Friday unveiled a newly-restored Leonardo Da Vinci masterpiece, the "Saint Anne", hoping to lay to rest an art world row that saw the Paris museum accused of endangering the precious oil.

"The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne", which the Renaissance master left unfinished when he died in 1519, goes on display on Thursday as the star of a major exhibit exploring the work's genesis, and its place in art history.

The coup against the Malian government was sparked by anger over its handling of an insurrection by Tuaregs, the impoverished Saharan nomads who were once known as the "masters of the desert."

Experts put the total number of Tuareg at between a million and 1.5 million, living on a territory nearly two million square kilometres (780,000 square miles) and comprising parts of Niger, Mali, Algeria, Libya and Burkina Faso.

French choreographer Angelin Preljocaj is hoping to cast a spell on U.S. audiences with his ballet "Snow White", an adaptation of what he calls the "thriller" fairytale by the Brothers Grimm.

The edgy dance master created the 2008 work -- which opens in California this week before moving to the East Coast -- as a tribute to the great 19th-century romantic ballets like Swan Lake, Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty.

A newly discovered Mozart piano piece composed when the child prodigy was 11 years old was presented and performed for the first time here Friday in his former family home.

Simply titled "Allegro Molto," the piece was found recently in a notebook in the attic of a private home in Austria's Tyrol province.

Spain's second largest city Barcelona on Wednesday said it would soon outlaw street prostitution, imposing fines on both prostitutes and their clients.

The city hall said the new rules were expected to come into play in May.

At least 943 Pakistani women and girls were murdered last year for allegedly defaming their family's honor, the country's leading human rights group said Thursday.

The statistics highlight the growing scale of violence suffered by many women in conservative Muslim Pakistan, where they are frequently treated as second-class citizens and there is no law against domestic violence.

Debt-laden Dubai will build an opera house and an modern art museum, the government said Wednesday, in the first such project since the Gulf emirate was hit by the global economic downturn in 2008.

The Dubai Modern Art Museum & Opera House District "aims to further strengthen UAE's emerging role as the cultural hub of the region," a statement said.