NEW YORK, Jan 2 (Reuters) - Oil prices settled up by more than $1 a barrel on Thursday as investors returned for the first trading day of 2025 with an optimistic eye on China's economy and fuel ...

From the most to least famous, these are ten great paintings dedicated to ancient Greek myths or containing references to them. 1. The Birth of Venus Sandro Botticelli, the great Italian painter of ...

Song Without End dramatizes the story of pianist-composer Franz Liszt. It is a must-see motion picture for music lovers, an enriching experience for family audiences, and a particularly compelling ...

Russia's average daily production of crude oil in 2024 slumped to its lowest level in nearly two decades, according to the latest figures, which reportedly show the impact of Ukrainian drone ...

The United States is also the largest consumer of oil, using about 20% of the world's supply, followed by China and India, which consume 15% and 5%, respectively. India stands out as the world's ...

An exceptionally rare 17th-century painting featuring a Black woman and a white woman side by side has gone on public display for the first time at Compton Verney, a historic manor in the English ...

Big money, big ideas and big egos — the art world has all the necessary ingredients ... heritage in the name of protest, by Just Stop Oil and other activist groups, continued apace.

11 minutes Perovskites, a ‘dirt cheap’ alternative to silicon, just got a lot more efficient Oil prices in 2024 were heavily influenced by Chinese demand and Middle East tensions, while US ...

Franz Ferdinand singer Alex Kapranos has found fatherhood a familiar experience – as it reminds him of his band's early days. Kapranos and wife Clara Luciani welcomed their first child last year ...

To celebrate the artist’s enduring legacy, we surveyed 10 of Raphael’s most popular paintings (determined by their presence on Google Images, the number of reproductions created, and our own a ...