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The gold and ivory statues of Apollo, Artemis and Leto at Delphi are extraordinary treasures of ancient Greek art.

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Several thousand Turkish Cypriots marched on Friday to protest a new regulation allowing pupils to wear Islamic headscarves ...

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As Berlin reconsiders its controversial secularism policy, Europe continues to debate the limits of religious expression in ...

Lucy Collins, an assistant professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York who teaches courses in philosophy, ...