Concept cars are often dreamt up by young designers. Here are a few rising stars to watch out for

By Cheryl Jensen
The design studies known as concept cars, which are staples at auto shows and often inspirations for the cars of tomorrow, are also test beds for new ideas. The newest designers in an automaker's studio often have a hand in these - with ideas that spring from creative young minds to become dream-car matter.

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Mia Farrow calls the unrest in Darfur genocide, even if the UN doesn't, and has done everything - from write op-eds to offer to change places with an imprisoned humanitarian worker - to stop it

By Emma Brockes
Every hour or so, Mia Farrow gets four Google alerts relating to the search terms, "Darfur," "Central African Republic," "Eastern Chad" and "Genocide Olympics," her shorthand for China's suitability as host nation of this year's games. She is on her fourth reading of Julie Flint and Alex de Waal's primer, Darfur: A Short History of a Long War. She has been to Sudan and its neighboring countries eight times in the past five years and is planning another trip in May.

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A Japanese University will return about 250 animated artworks that were stored in a janitor's closet and forgotten in 1960.

By Charles Solomon
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Most African art is displayed and sold outside the continent. To change that, South Africa is holding the Joburg Art Fair

By Celean Jacobson
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