Ten things you should know about Modi-Obama meeting in White House

Prime Minister Narendra Modi met US President Barack Obama on Tuesday on the penultimate leg of his whirlwind five-nation tour, during which the Indian leader hopes to strengthen “strategic partnership in diverse areas”. Modi discussed the challenges posed by extremism with the US President and the two leaders underlined the need to ensure the participation of civil society and minority communities to address the issue, officials...

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Ten Spectacular museums around the world 2016

In honour of #museumweek, BBC Culture rounds up stunning buildings around the world that house the treasures of civilisation. Musee d’Orsay, France Standing on the Left Bank of the Seine, this venerable Paris museum was opened in 1986 in a former Beaux-Arts railway station and hotel. The layout uses its previous incarnation to full effect – galleries cluster around the grand nave and light streams in through its sweeping glass...

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Ten Beautiful Brutalist Buildings 2016

Impressive concrete structures from around the world are collected in a new book, This Brutal World. Jonathan Glancey chooses his favourites. Basel College of Art and Design Basel, Switzerland, 1961 by Baur, Baur, Bräuning, Dürig Brutalism has become something of a catch-all term for highly expressive concrete architecture dating from the mid-1950s. Quite how brutal this Swiss art and design college is, is open to question....

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