LOS ANGELES, Wednesday 28 July 2010 (AFP) - An American collector has become an overnight multimillionaire after a set of 65 glass negatives he picked up at a garage sale turned out to be genuine Ansel Adams works, he and his lawyer said Tuesday.

KUALA LUMPUR: It was so bustling at Jalan Ipoh on 26 June 2010. A lot of citizens could not believe in what they had seen. They saw a traditional atap house moving at the downtown area. To put it more precisely, a group of people were "moving" a house!

WASHINGTON, Tuesday 22 June 2010 (AFP) - At first glance the train on the dress designed by Maria Chaconas appeared to be made from crystals, and the necklace sported by a former Miss DC looked as if it were fashioned from beads and wood.

SEREMBAN, NEGERI SEMBILAN: Do you have a dream house that you think you may not be able to afford it? Perhaps, you can consider building one by yourself.

JOUY-EN-JOSAS, Wednesday 2 June 2010 (AFP) - Pigs ears, smoked udders or veal lungs? French archeologists this week begin examining the remains of an open-air banquet shoveled underground almost 30 years ago as an art performance.

NEW YORK, May 27 (AFP) - Got something against other people, but want to save the planet? Then chucking bottles at New York's "Glassphemy!" installation is for you.

VIENNA, May 25 (AFP) - Vienna's famed Opera House is buzzing with a star new attraction this season: a beehive on its roof to celebrate the international year of biodiversity.

JOHOR BAHRU, JOHOR: As it is the country's first glass temple constructed with 300,000 pieces of coloured glass, including blue, red, yellow, green, purple and white, the Arulmigu Sri Raja Kaliamman Glass Temple has been recorded in the Malaysia Books of Records.

ATHENS, May 11 (AFP) - Ancient Greeks were forced to tighten their tunics thousands of years before their descendants faced a similar fate under debt-cutting austerity measures, a senior archaeologist said on Tuesday.

Artists often sacrifice a great deal for their craft and many countries have programs to support starving artists (France gives tax credits and in Japan artists can be named living national treasures). The United States is not known for its altruism toward artists especially in term of health benefits, but one hospital has a creative approach.