Musician Ramy Essam, 23, says he was tortured while under the custody of the Egyptian military after being rounded up with several other protesters in Tahrir Square on March 9.
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President Obama, shown delivering a speech in Virginia on Monday, promised two years ago to improve government transparency. A new study finds that so far, the administration has a mixed record.
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Smokes simmers from a factory destroyed by the tsunami in the town of Ofunato in Iwate prefecture. Economists say it's still too early to assess all of the economic impacts of the disaster.
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By the time Gauguin arrived in the late 1800s, Tahiti had been "thoroughly Christianized and colonized" by the French, says National Gallery curator Mary Morton. Women didn't walk around half-nude — but Gauguin painted them that way anyway. Above, an 1899 depiction of Two Tahitian Women.
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