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For nearly 60 years, the Helena Rubinstein Foundation has supported arts, education, health, and community service programs primarily in New York City NEW YORK, Oct. 31, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Helena Rubinstein Foundation, established in 1953, will officially cease operations by the end of the year. Over its nearly 60 year history, the Foundation has distributed close to $130 million, primarily to education and community-based organizations in New York City. Helena...

NEW YORK, Oct. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- 5W Public Relations, one of the 25 largest independent US PR Agencies today announced its selection as the agency of record for My Love Affair, an international agency dedicated to pairing artists and brands that was created by Cathy Guetta and Raphael Aflalo. Through its appointment, 5W Public Relations will be charged with developing and growing brand awareness within the US as well as event execution and promotion for the recently launched...

  ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst has been assigned to fly to the International Space Station on a 6-month mission in 2014, serving as a flight engineer for Expeditions 40 and 41. Alexander is the second of the new group of European astronauts, which graduated last November, to be assigned to a mission. He will be launched aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in May 2014, returning to Earth in November 2014. Today is an ideal day for the...

His Holiness the Pope will talk with the astronauts aboard the International Space Station from the Vatican Library on Saturday, 21 May. The inflight call will take place at 13:11 CEST (11:11 GMT). The 12 astronauts aboard the International Space Station have been busy since Space Shuttle Endeavour arrived at the orbital complex last Wednesday. They installed the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on Thursday for investigating "˜dark matter' and antimatter, and performed the first spacewalk of...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, April 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- A modern explorer travels to Brazil to find out what happened to the real Indiana Jones. In the early part of the 20th century Royal Geographical Society explorer Col. Percy Fawcett was the toughest man in the Amazon. He explored and mapped the wild jungle borders of Bolivia and Brazil: he survived Indian attacks, snakes and disease to become a legend in his own time. He came back with fantastic stories of bizarre jungle...

NEW YORK, Dec. 8, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- See video from European Parliament at: http://www.thenewsmarket.com/Releases/StoryDetailPage.aspx?GUID=4966d642-9536-44fb-915d-1ea178e485ee# The 4th European Book Prize awarded Italian Roberto Saviano for his essay "The Beauty and the Hell" and Finnish Sofi Oksanen for her novel "Purge". "It's a place where you are expecting freedom of speech. You should at least... And as well as human rights and equality. So these are very important and sensitive as...

Russia's notorious Butyrka prison said on Tuesday that it will soon install sunbeds to improve the health of its inmates. The 19th-century Butyrka prison in central Moscow has held a slew of historical figures in its barriers, including persecuted Soviet-era writers Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Isaak Babel and Adolf Hitler's nephew Heinrich. "We are developing additional medical services and even sunbeds will be put in place," Butyrka's head Sergei Telyatnikov told state-run radio...

Ten past and present ESA astronauts will be at the ILA international aerospace show at Berlin's Schoenefeld on Friday 11 June. At the same time, ESA will continue its presence on its shared stand.ESA will participate in ILA's "˜Spaceflight: Yesterday"“Today"“Tomorrow' workshop on Friday, starting at 12:00 CEST in the Space Hall (Raumfahrt-Halle). Former ESA astronauts Ulf Merbold and Ernst Messerschmid will represent the previous generation of space flyers and start the session. Current...

Music that transcends boundaries and divisions LOS ANGELES, May 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Democracy Council and Bosana Foundation present a Benefit Concert for the orphaned children of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Saturday at 8:00 pm at Barnsdall Gallery Theatre, Hollywood. The concert will be hosted by academy award nominated actress, Annette Bening. Performances and appearances during the concert include: 1) Rade Serbedzija: one of the former Yugoslavia's finest actors, directors and...

NEW YORK, March 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --The Simon Wiesenthal Center expressed its solidarity and condolences with the latest innocent victims of terrorism who were murdered and maimed by suicide bombers in Moscow's Subway system. "For years our campaign to have all suicide bombings -- whoever the perpetrator or targeted victims -- to be declared crimes against humanity," said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. "Such a move would enable nations and...