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Five personality traits widely thought to be universal across cultures might not be, according to a study of an isolated Bolivian society.

As we enter into 2013, the European Commission kicks off the European Year of Citizens, a year dedicated to you and to your rights. This European Year comes at a critical juncture in European integration - 2013 marks the 20th anniversary of EU Citizenship, which was introduced by the Maastricht Treaty in 1993, and it is also one year before the European Parliament elections.

Pope Benedict has called for world peace and condemned inequalities between the rich and the poor in a New Year's Day Mass.

Sankore mosque in Mali’s fabled city of Timbuktu.

The European Union has received this year's Nobel Peace Prize for turning Europe "from a continent of war to a continent of peace" in the six decades following World War II.

Ethiopia has one of the fastest growing economies in the world, but remains one of the poorest countries at the same time. It might take years before the majority of people benefit from the growth.

A scientist at a greenhouse of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, doing research on a particular variety of wheat.

2011 by SO Rampete / Bakgatla ba KgafelaThe Pot Master, Mmasekgwa Motlhware, instructring her granddaughter, Tumediso Motene on the smoothening of the pot.

Opening session of Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage meeting in Paris