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Known to many as the "cradle of civilization," Iraq is a treasure trove of important archaeological sites including Babylon, Ur and Nimrud.
The words "tourism" and "Iraq" don't often get used in the same sentence these days, but if a new project to help preserve the historic ruins of Babylon pays off, archaeologists and officials say the country could soon be back on the international travel map.
International airlines are once again landing in Iraq, the conflict-wracked home to some of the ancient wonders of the world.
Iraqi archaeologists have unearthed an ancient village in the city of Hilla. CNN's Mohammed Jamjoom reports.
Mohamed Al-Daradji has cut something of a lonely figure in Iraqi cinema over the past seven years.
The U.S. military did major damage to the site of one of the wonders of the ancient world while converting it into a base, the United Nations said in a new report.
A 15-foot basking shark washed ashore in between Gilgo and Cedar beaches in the town of Babylon, New York.
If your neighbor mentions their green roof you might think they have a moss problem. Maybe they are simply referring to the color. But you're unlikely to think that they have just had a mini ecosystem installed.
An entertainer chanted the James Brown lyrics: "I feel good, I knew that I would," outside Berlin's Babylon theater, the venue for the Obama Election party organized by the Democrats abroad.
Coalition troops formally handed over control of Iraq's Babil province to the Iraqi government on Thursday.
The multitalented, multitasking screenwriter behind Clint Eastwood's new film also created the influential sci-fi series Babylon 5 and writes, in his spare time, for Marvel Comics
In this complex story of kidnapping and corruption, Angelina Jolie looms a bit too large
At her previous job, Samantha Smith, was the lone conservative in a 10-person office -- something her more liberal co-workers were happy to tease her about after she shared her views on hot-button issues like same-sex marriage and the Iraq war.
The looting of the institution was one of the great tragedies of the war. But very slowly, pieces are returning. And in the shadows, there are hints of glory
Stockholm has a reputation for being one of Europe's most expensive cities. T+L hits the streets of the fashionable capital and proves otherwise.
A new exhibit shows the plans that Hitler, along with his trusted architect Albert Speer, had made to turn Berlin into a capital for the new Germania
In the waning sunlight hour of a chilly winter afternoon, a chorus of Hebrew prayer rises from a small, fluorescent lit room on the outskirts of Baghdad.
Muslim, Christian and Jewish-American troops say religion helps them cope with war. CNN's Alphonso Van Marsh reports.
CNN's Frederik Pleitgen on the first ever Iraqi Cardinal and his battle to keep Christianity alive in Iraq.
Fortune: TV's next heroupdated: Fri Mar 02 2007 10:13:00
In the 1980s and 1990s, U.S. television executives mined stand-up comedy for show concepts. More recently, they've turned to European reality shows (Big Brother, Pop Idol) to fill their schedules. Could comic books be the next source of inspiration?
The current vogue for movies splintered into a social cross-section goes global with "Babel," the third in a trilogy of triptychs from writer Guillermo Arriaga and director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.
On Saturday evenings, all of Istanbul seems to stroll along Istiklal Caddesi, a pedestrian avenue in the Beyoglu district. Couples, packs of young men, and extended families share the sidewalks with lottery ticket vendors, men roasting corncobs on street carts and café singers belting pop tunes.
How do you capture a nation's suffering and pain in a single expression? This has been Iraqi artist Suad Al Attar's mission since the beginning of the first Gulf War in 1991.
After the critical and commercial success of "Prince of Persia: Sands of Time'' and "Prince of Persia: Warrior Within,'' it's no surprise Ubisoft Montreal didn't mess with the formula for its third action-adventure epic in as many years: "Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones.''
Behold Oliver Stone, the eighth wonder of DVD: a filmmaker who turns out a director's cut of "Alexander" shorter than his original theatrical version.
Dear Armchair Millionaire: I'm ready to get my financial act together and start investing and I want to find the best book to get me going. What do you recommend?
You can't blame Lance Ledbetter, the 28-year-old founder of Atlanta's tiny Dust-to-Digital label, for underestimating how many people would purchase his company's first release, Goodbye, Babylon. A...
Richard Biggs, who played Dr. Stephen Franklin on "Babylon 5" and also had a long run on the soap opera "Days of Our Lives," died Saturday. He was 44, according to the actor's Web site.
Have you noticed people getting by with less stuff than they used to? Acting less materialistic? Invoking that stern Yankee adage, "Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without"?
Fortune: AIRLINE BABYLON T&Eupdated: Mon Sep 29 1997 00:01:00
Ali, the front-desk clerk at the Robert Treat Travelodge Hotel, is evasive when FORTUNE asks him which floor the flight attendants are staying on. "Oh," he says, "I can't give out that information....
We keep looking for something to happen in the great American casino industry, and it never happens, even though economic theory tells us it must happen. Baffling, eh? And definitely requiring an e...
We spent some time recently with a doctoral dissertation called The Nur-Sin Archive, which is more fun to read than the average thesis and also bears a more interesting message. Produced by Laurenc...
Hey, what ever happened to Tom Brokaw? How can the arguably most handsome of the network anchorpersons suddenly be in a ''ratings swoon'' (the New York Times's succinct summary)? What would cause T...
BOSTON -- A federal employee fired for refusing to wear a coat and tie for an identification photograph says he'll appeal . . . Roger Arnold . . . said he has not worn a coat and tie at work since ...
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