In a globalized art market, what better place for a gallery than an airport? Thus reasoned U.S. art mogul Larry Gagosian, who this week opens a cavernous new art space right inside Paris's main private air hub.

Designed by star French architect Jean Nouvel in a 1950s warehouse in Le Bourget north of Paris, Gagosian's new gallery, his 12th worldwide and second in Paris, opens Friday to coincide with the capital's FIAC contemporary art fair.

Ham with brie, wild mushroom croquettes, cured-meat ravioli: gourmet cooking has put this Basque town on the gastronomic map, drawing visitors from around the world.

Now its culinary assets -- which include more Michelin stars per square meter than anywhere else in the world, and the world's first university of gastronomy -- are nourishing it in the economic crisis.

Inspired by the Pompidou Center in Paris, which for nearly two years removed all the men's art from its modern galleries, the Seattle Art Museum is letting women take over its downtown building this fall.

Lovers of art by men can still get their fill in the museum's Renaissance, Asian and Native art galleries, but those who want to explore art from this past century will be studying the contribution of women to photography, video, painting and sculpture.

More than 80 years ago Hugh Tracey made his first recordings of African music and earned himself a reputation as a madman who sallied into the bush with people playing drums.

That was in 1929, today his unique archives have been digitalized and used as teaching aids in two new school textbooks, realizing his life dream of preventing the music from dying out.

Houcine looks around nervously before entering the tomb in the village of Menzel Bouzelfa, one of the Sufi shrines that have become targets for Tunisia's increasingly assertive Salafists.

On September 14, hundreds of radical Islamists angered by a U.S.-made film mocking their religion attacked the U.S. embassy in Tunis and a neighboring American school in a day of violence that left four people dead and dozens wounded.

Chinese dissident author Liao Yiwu on Sunday tore into the leadership in Beijing, describing his homeland as an "inhuman empire with bloody hands" as he scooped a prestigious German book prize.

The author, also known as Lao Wei, added that the Chinese state was a "massive scrap heap that must break apart" and accused the West of "colluding with the executioners under the cover of free trade."

The Justice Department said Friday it is going to allow members of federally recognized American-Indian tribes to possess eagle feathers, although that's a federal crime.

This is a significant religious and cultural issue for many tribes, who were consulted in advance about the policy the department announced.

In a landmark ruling Botswana's High Court on Friday affirmed women's inheritance rights for the first time, up-ending a male-dominated system that had prevailed in the thriving African nation.

The court ruled that local customary laws -- giving a son preferential rights to inherit the family home -- are not in line with the country's constitution, which guarantees gender equality.

Vienna's city council said Friday that it planned to erect a monument to remember the thousands of people executed by the Nazis for deserting or refusing to serve in the military during World War II.

"The location is a worthy one, aimed at remembering -- in the city center, right next to the chancellery and the presidency -- those who risked their lives not to serve in the Nazi Wehrmacht and those murdered at the hands of Nazi military justice," said city councilor for culture Andreas Mailath-Pokorny.

U.S. poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 93, has turned down a literary award partly funded by the Hungarian government due to concerns about human rights in the central European country, his publisher said Friday.

The Janus Pannonius International Poetry Prize was set up in 2012 by the Hungarian PEN Club, a branch of the worldwide PEN writers' associations.