A team of archaeologists said Monday it has unearthed an unusual coffin-within-a-coffin in the central England parking lot where it found the skeleton of King Richard III, and that they hope to identify the remains within.

University of Leicester scientists have been digging at the Grey Friars site in Leicester after finding the body of Richard there in September. He died nearby in 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth Field.

In the concrete jungle of New York City, where open sky can be hard to find, the latest luxury offering is a night under the stars -- or, under twinkling city lights, at least.

From terraces and high-rise balconies atop Art Deco buildings or glass-walled modern structures, this new breed of hotel offers straight-up views, with nary a window pane or curtain to impede the breeze.

The sun has barely risen and already dozens of Afghan men are swapping fistfuls of bank notes, frantically betting in one of the country's goriest pastimes: bird fighting.

In a shady patch, under a cluster of trees in a Kabul park, two partridges face off at opposite ends of a small square of dirt.

New Yorkers have been queueing in droves -- sometimes in sweltering temperatures -- for the novel experience of walking through rain without getting wet.

The chance comes courtesy of Rain Room, a novel installation by British art collective Random International, at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA).

Baghdad reached an initial deal with the U.S. on the return of more than 10,000 artefacts stolen from Iraq after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, a senior official said on Friday.

"We have reached an initial agreement... on returning more than 10,000 Iraqi artefacts that are in the United States," by August 2014, senior ministry advisor Baha al-Mayahi told Agence France Presse.

Baghdad reached an initial deal with the U.S. on the return of more than 10,000 artifacts stolen from Iraq after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, a senior official said on Friday.

"We have reached an initial agreement... on returning more than 10,000 Iraqi artifacts that are in the United States," by August 2014, senior ministry adviser Baha al-Mayahi told Agence France Presse.

A huge blue cockerel descended upon London's Trafalgar Square on Thursday, but the artwork has ruffled feathers by putting the symbol of France in a site marking a famous British victory over Napoleon.

Standing 4.7 meters (15.5 feet) tall and colored a vivid ultramarine, the fibreglass rooster was sculpted by German artist Katharina Fritsch and will watch over the famous square for 18 months.

Russia's security service on Thursday released from its secret archives the manuscript of a classic World War II novel described as the "War and Peace" of the 20th century, over 50 years after it was confiscated by the Soviet authorities.

Vassily Grossman's epic novel "Life and Fate", completed in 1960, was banned in the Soviet Union until the late 1980s but is now considered to be one of the greatest of all Russian novels.

More than 3,700 photos of American pop icon Marilyn Monroe will be sold this weekend along with their copyrights, a Los Angeles auction house said Thursday.

The photos -- plus negatives, slides and copyrights -- are part of a collection of more than 75,000 images taken by fashion photographer Milton Greene in the 1950s and 1960s.

Archaeologists said Wednesday they have found a flint blade dating back 1.4 million years in the caves of Atapuerca in Spain, the earliest sign of a human presence at the site.

The three-centimeter (1.2-inch) blade was found in the so-called Elephant Chasm cave where in 2007 researchers found a human finger and jawbone dating back 1.2 million years -- considered the remains of the "oldest European" ever found.