The 500th anniversary of the creation of the Venice ghetto is to be marked by an unprecedented performance of Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice", in the neighborhood to which the city's Jews were confined for centuries, organizers said Wednesday.

India's top green court Wednesday gave the go-ahead to a mass festival organized by a world-famous guru to be held on the floodplains of Delhi's Yamuna river, despite fierce opposition from environmentalists.

Five women associations (Lebanese League for Women in Business (LLWB), Arab Women in Computing Lebanon Chapter (ArabWIC Lebanon), IEEE Women in Engineering Affinity Group – Lebanon Section, and Women in IT (WIT), and Digital opportunity Trust) organized together the “Girls Got IT” event, bringing

around 400 students girls from public and private schools (10th and 11th grades) for a full day of STEAM (STEAM fields is an acronym for the fields of study in the categories of science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) related hands-on activities at Dbayyeh Convention Center.

Documentary film makers have radar scanned William Shakespeare's grave this year as Britain celebrates the 400th anniversary of the Bard's death, Channel 4 said and the Daily Telegraph reported Monday.

The grave in the Holy Trinity Church in Shakespeare's birthplace of Stratford upon Avon is a place of pilgrimage for fans and has an inscription on it with a curse against anyone planning to tamper with it.

Two Saudi boys, one Sunni, another Shiite, push their desks together and sit side-by-side smiling in a classroom.

Then teachers tell the boys their opposing sects are "evil" and they pull their desks apart, before their parents insist it is okay to be friends, and they walk off hand-in-hand.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated Sunday his commitment to a decision allocating an area at the Western Wall for egalitarian Jewish prayer, despite growing opposition from rabbis and political allies.

The undisputed "king" of French tattoo artists says his industry is struggling to win recognition as an art form on a par with painting or music.

Shinichi Niitsuma enthusiastically shows visitors the attractions of the small town of Namie: its tsunami-hit coastline, abandoned houses and hills overlooking the radiation-infested reactors of the disabled Fukushima nuclear plant.

Five years after the nuclear disaster emptied much of Japan's northeastern coast, tourism is giving locals of the abandoned town a chance to exorcise the horrors of the past.

Poland's human rights commissioner has condemned a "growing number" of attacks on LGBT groups, calling for changes to the law to protect sexual minorities.

The Campaign against Homophobia (KPH) and gay-rights group Lambda say their offices have been targeted with break-ins in recent months, with anti-gay and nationalist slogans left on the doors of the latter.

In response to a surge in reports of anti-Muslim bullying, U.S. schools are expanding on efforts deployed in the past to help protect gays, racial minorities and other marginalized groups.

Civil rights organizations and other advocates have been working more closely with schools since the attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California, stirred a new backlash that led the U.S. Justice Department and U.S. Education Department to urge vigilance on the bullying of Muslims.