A Muslim leader in India warned Wednesday of communal unrest after a state government claimed the Koran discourages eating beef, the latest contentious effort to protect cows in the Hindu-majority country.

The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state of Gujarat has erected billboards with an alleged Koranic verse saying eating beef causes disease, together with an Islamic symbol of a crescent moon and star.

A New York exhibition exploring Chinese influence on Western fashion attracted a record 815,992 visitors during a four-month summer run in a sign of China's growing clout in America.

"China: Through the Looking Glass," was the most visited show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute and the fifth most popular show at the entire museum overall.

Though Bosnia's National Museum was shut three years ago, loyal employees have occupied the building, whose treasures include an ancient Jewish manuscript, to shame authorities into reopening it.

The museum, Bosnia's oldest, is a 19th-century legacy of the Austro-Hungarian empire that has never before closed, despite two world wars and Bosnia's own bloody 1992-95 conflict following the breakup of the old Yugoslav federation.

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve condemned on Tuesday mayors in France who have said they are only prepared to allow Christian refugees to settle in their towns.

"I really don't understand this distinction. I condemn it and I think it's dreadful," Cazeneuve told France 2 television.

Beirut, Lebanon—September 7, 2015

As the Sursock Museum’s reopening date nears (October 8, 2015), the Museum’s Committee held a meeting on September 3 to discuss the final preparations for the opening exhibitions and programs.

Pope Francis wants to make it easier for Catholics to have their marriages annulled under reforms regarded with suspicion by conservatives wary of the de facto introduction of Church-approved divorce.

Details of significant reforms of a system that critics including Francis himself have attacked as needlessly bureaucratic, expensive and unfair were due to be unveiled Tuesday with the publication of letters on the issue from the pope to Catholic churches across the world.

Archaeologists on Monday said they had found the buried remains of a mysterious prehistoric monument close to Britain's famous Stonehenge heritage site.

Up to 90 standing stones, some originally measuring 4.5 meters (15 feet) and dating back some 4,500 years, may have been buried for millennia under a bank of earth, they said.

Most of Israel's Arab schools observed a one-day strike on Monday in solidarity with Christian schools which have been protesting state fund cuts, Palestinian and Israeli officials said.

Almost all of the 450,000 Arab students in Israel stayed away from school, said Jafar Farah, the head of the Mossawa center that promotes the rights of Arabs in the Jewish state.

Mexico's mural art is getting a modern makeover.

Former graffiti taggers and graphic designers have joined together in a cooperative called "Street Art Chilango," painting walls with popular Star Wars characters and hyping their work on social media.

New Zealand censors sparked outrage Monday after banning an award-winning teen novel that includes sex and bullying, making it the first book removed from shelves in more than two decades.

Auckland author Ted Dawe said he was "blindsided" by the ban on his coming-of-age story "Into the River", which won the New Zealand Post children's book of the year in 2013.