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ROME (AP) — A long-delayed restoration of the Colosseum 's only intact internal passageway has yielded ancient traces of red, black, green and blue frescoes — as well as graffiti and drawings of phallic symbols — indicating that the arena where gladiators fought was far more colorful than previously thought.   Officials unveiled the discoveries Friday and said the passageway — between the second and third levels of the 1st Century Colosseum — would open to the public starting this summer, after the €80,000 ($100,000) restoration is completed. The frescoes were hidden under centuries of calcified rock and grime, and were revealed during a cleaning and restoration project over the last two months. The traces confirmed that while the Colosseum today is a fairly monochrome gray travertine rock, red brick and moss-covered marble, in its day its interior halls were a rich and expensive Technicolor. "We're used to thinking that during excavations, archaeological surprises ar...

Communiqué issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Paris, 8 January 2013 M. Laurent Fabius, Minister of Foreign Affairs, will have a meeting at 7.30 p.m. today, Tuesday, 8 January, with Mr Ziauddin Yousafzai, the father of Malala Yousafzai. Mr Yousafzai is in Paris to receive, on behalf of his daughter, the Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Women’s Freedom, which will be presented to him tomorrow, Wednesday, 9 January, at the Maison de l’Amérique latine. Malala Yousafzai, who is currently living in the UK, was the victim of an assassination attempt in October last year because of her determined commitment to the right to education. The meeting will be an opportunity to express France’s commitment to women’s rights and solidarity with Malala Yousafzai in her fight for the right to girls’ education./. Video: Mr Yousafzai receiving the prize on behalf of his daughter Joint communiqué issued by Paris Diderot University, the Institut français and Mazars Simone de Beauvoir Prize for...

Entretien avec Imany, chanteuse française d’origine comorienne. Son album, “The shape of a broken heart”, 2011 propose 12 chansons en anglais "révélant une interprète à part entière, au timbre vocal original, d’une texture sensuelle où semblent se mélanger le corsé du gingembre et la douceur du miel. S’y dessine le portrait intime d’une femme libre, d’une affranchie, qui fait de chaque émotion une offrande, et le gage d’une intransigeante sincérité." www.imanymusic.com/ © Barron Claiborne Née de parents comoriens (d’un père d’Ipwani et d’une mère de Mvuni), mais ayant vécu votre enfance en France et votre jeunesse à New York, comment percevez-vous vos origines comoriennes ? Je les perçois comme miennes. Je ne passe pas la journée à me demander qui je suis. Je le sais et mes origines comoriennes se lisent sur mon visage comme dans mon cœur et dans ma tête. Votre nom de scène signifie « la foi » en Shikomori. Si ce choix se réfère...