PARIS (AFP) - A piece of the original staircase of the Eiffel Tower fetched 553,000 euros (710,000 dollars), 10 times its estimated price, in a Paris auction on Wednesday.The 2.7-metre (nine-foot) high chunk, the third of its kind sold in
CAIRO (AFP) - Almost half of married Egyptian women have been physically abused by their husbands, a study by the government statistics centre said on Wednesday.The study by CAPMAS said that 47 percent of women between the ages of 15 and
BARCELONA (AFP) - Half the world’s mammals are declining in population and more than a third probably face extinction, said an update Monday of the “Red List,” the most respected inventory of biodiversity. A comprehensive survey of
