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Iranian artist Shahab Mohammadi has decided to donate his Peace carpet to the Hiroshima Peace Center in memory of Sadako Sasaki, one of the victims of the atomic bomb.

"I read Sadako's life story when I was only six years old and she has always been on my mind since then," Mohammadi told ISNA.

Two elderly Israeli women have claimed a collection of unpublished writings by Frantz Kafka, which they say to have inherited from their mother.

The never-published papers have been retrieved from ten safety deposit boxes in Tel Aviv and Zurich on the order of an Israeli court.

The world's oldest opera singer, Luo Pinchao, has passed away at the age of 98 at his home in the city of Guangzhou in southern China.

The Cantonese Opera star, who was ranked as the world's oldest opera singer by the Guinness World Records, died on July 15, 2010.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has mounted a group exhibition, showcasing modern works by three contemporary Iranian artists.

1, 2, 3: Three Contemporary Iranian Artists displays photographs and multimedia artworks by, Yasaman Ameri, Samira Alikhanzadeh and the late Iranian documentary photographer Bahman Jalali

The 2010 edition of the All Roads Film Project is scheduled to screen the Award-winning Iranian short film directed by Esmail Monsef, Oyan.

The 19-minute film which received the Silver Gentian award of the 58th Trento Film Festival recounts the story of a postman and a girl who is waiting to receive letters from her prisoner husband from across the border.

Four Iranian plays have entered the 64th edition of the Avignon Theater Festival, which gathers artists and theater-lovers from all around the globe.

Atila Pesyani's Mute Who Was Dreaming , Reza Haddad's Revelation on a Silent Party , Kioumars Moradi's City without a Sky and Siamak Ehsai's 6 Minutes and 36 Birthday Cakes have been daily staged since the festival kicked off on July 7.

The 2010 edition of the Wimbledon Shorts film festival has awarded its top prize to a nine-minute production by Iranian Kurdish filmmaker Bijan Zamanpira.

Mirror and Water received the event's Best Short Film Award after winning the competition against 400 films from around the globe.

A new study has revealed traces of a technique used by Leonardo da Vinci to create the shading on the face of Mona Lisa, his greatest masterpiece.

According to the study published in the journal Angewandte Chemie, X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometry found an explanation for the ultra-thin layers of glaze and pigment used to achieve light to dark transitions.

The Tbilisi State Academy of Arts has opened an exhibition of paintings by two Iranian artists during a ceremony held in the Georgian capital.

The event, which is held along with an Iranian photo exhibition, displays some 50 paintings by Farzaneh and Hossein Mahjoubi.

The Louvre Museum has mounted an exhibition on the history of Saudi Arabia, presenting a selection of archeological relics and artifacts in Paris.

The event displays photographs and some 300 artifacts, most of which have never been seen outside the Saudi Arabian borders, Artdaily reported.