1.   An official at the Hungarian foreign ministry reckons that about half his colleagues and most of those who served in the culture ministry are out.

2.   Count on much teeth grinding in newspaper columns and culture ministries from Paris to Beijing.

3.   Curators Wednesday gave a tour of the Kabul Museum and the storeroom of the culture ministry.

4.   Here in Ottawa, concrete actions seemed to be few, beyond establishing a World Wide Web site linking culture ministries.

5.   Moshe Fogel, who is in charge of international relations at the Israeli culture ministry, was more diplomatic.

6.   The rubble sits in broken wood crates and dusty piles at the national museum and in a building that houses the culture ministry.

7.   Papanikolaou died Monday of pneumonia, but he also had been suffering from cancer, the culture ministry said.

8.   A Greek flag flew at half mast at the national museum of archaeology in Athens Friday, as the culture ministry paid tribute to the Paris-trained sculptor.

9.   A Greek flag flew at half mast Friday at the national museum of archaeology in Athens, as the culture ministry paid tribute to the Paris-trained sculptor.

10.   A tourist who removed a small piece of marble from the ancient Acropolis has mailed back the rock along with an apology, the culture ministry said Tuesday.