Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday said married couples should sit down and talk about their problems with "utmost sincerity" on a regular basis to get past the bustle and individualism of daily life.

Marriages "have problems and difficulties, surrounded as they are by growing secularization", the pope said in a message for a meeting in Brazil of the "Equipes Notre Dame" movement founded in 1938 by French priest Henri Caffarel.

"Here it is, the little wonder, our 'Chypre' from 1917," whispers the cellar-master as he plunges a paper strip into a vial, one of the many treasures at a one-of-its-kind library of world perfume.

The century-old fragrance by Francois Coty is in illustrious company, with to one side the 14th-century "Water of the Queen of Hungary" and to the other the Cologne water that Napoleon Bonaparte used in exile on Saint Helena, dated 1815.

The giant sets of the Cinecitta studios in Rome -- from 19th century New York to Renaissance Florence -- are a slice of world cinema history that workers picketing outside say is disappearing forever.

The iconic 1930s facade has been covered by a giant banner reading "Occupy Cinecitta" and international directors including Britain's Ken Loach and France's Claude Lelouch are getting behind a campaign to preserve the site.

Yale University, one of the leading centers of liberal education in the United States, on Friday defended controversial restrictions on protests and political parties at its new Singapore campus.

Yale-NUS College, a partnership with the National University of Singapore, was launched with "full awareness" of the city-state's laws governing freedom of expression, Yale University President Richard Levin said.

Nearly 100,00O Muslim worshippers poured into Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City for the first Friday prayers of the holy month of Ramadan, an Israeli police spokesman said.

"Nearly 100,000 Palestinians from the West Bank" and east Jerusalem "were at the Temple Mount for prayers," police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said, adding that no disturbances were reported.

Frustrated by the lack of old Bollywood glamour on the streets of Mumbai, two film buffs are trying to brighten up India's movie capital with mural tributes ahead of the industry's 100th birthday.

The iconic image of a reclining, cigarette-smoking young Amitabh Bachchan, the biggest star of Hindi cinema, has been lovingly recreated on a roadside wall, replicating the dying style of hand-painted poster art.

Broadly speaking, religion is less important for Asian Americans than for Americans overall, but that doesn't mean they shun faith altogether, a Pew Research Center study on Thursday suggests.

In "Asian Americans: A Mosaic of Faith," Pew's Forum on Religion and Public Life found that most either count themselves as Christian or say they have no religious affiliation.

Archeologists have uncovered a 1,600-year-old Mayan temple dedicated to the "night sun" atop a pyramid tomb in the northern Guatemalan forest near the border with Mexico.

"The sun was a key element of Maya ruler ship," lead archeologist Stephen Houston explained in announcing the discovery by the joint Guatemalan and American team that has been excavating the El Zotz site since 2006.

Poland is preparing to mark one of the darkest episodes of the Holocaust, when the country's Nazi German occupiers launched an operation to kill the population of the Jewish ghetto they created in Warsaw.

Sunday's solemn tribute to the victims of the mass deportations that began on July 22, 1942, will be capped by a memorial concert in what was once the Polish capital's Jewish quarter.

FBI agents have recovered what is believed to be a Matisse painting valued at $3 million that was stolen from a Venezuelan museum 10 years ago, and arrested two suspects, authorities said Wednesday.

Pedro Antonio Marcuello Guzman, 46, of Miami, and Maria Martha Elisa Ornelas Lazo, 50, of Mexico City, were arrested and charged for transporting and possessing what is thought to be Matisse's 'Odalisque in Red Pants,' which was reported stolen from a museum in Caracas, U.S. prosecutors said in a statement.