French Institute

France said Wednesday it would secure its diplomatic missions and close schools in Egypt and Tunisia fearing violence after a French magazine published cartoons of a naked Prophet Mohammed.

French schools in Tunisia closed for four days on Wednesday and the embassy requested extra security, after the publication in France of cartoons the ruling Islamists branded a "new attack" on the Prophet Mohammed.

French schools in Tunisia have been temporarily closed and the country's embassy there has requested extra security after a French weekly published cartoons of a naked Prophet Mohammed.

ATHENS (Reuters) - Ruediger Bolz has 350 students coming through the doors of his German language institute in central Athens each day - 20 percent up on a year go.

35 paintings from Jonathan Demme's vast collection of Haitian art on display at NYC center. A man in a straw hat clutching a knife creeps toward the figure of a large woman asleep under the stars. Bare-breasted women dance at a voodoo-infused Christmas ceremony. Villagers crowd around the corpse of a fisherman washed ashore after a storm.