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2010, February 2-4: Paris, France - Prince Karim Aga Khan attends the International 'Global Zero' Summit Against Nuclear Weapons.

2010, January 28 - London, UK: "Results change minds, not rhetoric." His Highness the Aga Khan's statement at the London Conference on Afghanistan today.

International conference on Afghanistan begins in London - Foreign ministers of over 70 countries gathered at a conference in London to discuss the current situation and future of Afghanistan.

On 19 February 1959, the 48th Imam was finally laid to rest in the mausoleum which had taken over 18 months to construct.

On July 19, 1957, Sir Sultan Mohamed Shah, 48th Imam, was laid to rest in a temporary place created in the grounds of the villa Noor al Salaam in Aswan.

The Aga Khan was presented the Granada de Oro, at the City Hall, Granada. In his speech he mentionned: '..that efforts are continuing to preserve the exceptional heritage of Granada, and I wish to confirm here today that the Aga Khan Trust for Culture will bring its support to these efforts.' The event was also covered by the Spanish 'Lecturas'

Prince Amyn was touring Nairobi Serena as part of his regular inspection visits to Srena properties.

At a ceremony held in Syria at the historical Citadel of Aleppo, His Highness the Aga Khan announced the nine recipients of the 2001 Aga Khan Award for Architecture, and presented a special Chairman's Award to the Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa. The occasion completed the eighth cycle of the programme, which has a triennial prize fund of US$ 500,000, making it the world's largest architectural award. The Award programme will celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary in 2003.

Apollo Magazine Featured H.H. The Aga Khan IV on their cover and selected him as their personality of the year on the occasion of his Golden Jubilee. The article includes photographs and descriptions of His Highness's recent endeavours.

The Aga Khan's Akiyda made a bold move along the rail and won by a head from fast-closing Ardross today in the $285,000 Prix de l'Arc Triomphe at the Longchamps race course.

Akiyda was ridden by the top French jockey, Yves Saint-Martin, who posted his third triumph in this event, Europe's richest thoroughbred horse race.

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India has bagged three of the seven Aga Khan Awards for Architecture for 1998.

The winning projects are civil engineer-town planner Himanshu Parikh's slum networking project at Indore, architect Charles Correa's Vidhan Bhavan at Bhopal and Norwegian architects Per Christian Brynildsen and Jan Olav Jensen's lepers' hospital in Chopda taluka in Maharashtra's Jalgaon district.

Los Reyes respaldaron ayer en Granada la Fundación del Legado Andalusí, el proyecto cultural ideado en 1995 por la Junta para promover la ruta arquitectónica y cultural de la herencia andalusí. Las dudas sobre cuál debía ser su estructura han impedido hasta ahora su funcionamiento regular. Don Juan Carlos señaló a la civilización arábigoandaluza como "el germen de la Europa" de la que los españoles son "miembros y socios". Los Reyes asistieron por la tarde en el Generalife a la entrega de los prestigiosos premios de arquitectura creados por el agá Jan, amigo de ambos, en 1977.

Civil strife, expanding populations, poverty, urban drift, hegemonic claims of traditional orthodoxies and monopolistic tendencies in electronic media can be destructive of world culture and are dangers to tomorrow's human and physical environment, but they need not overwhelm every society.

Le parc Al-Azhar, l'ancien dépotoir transformé en jardin des délices qu'inaugurera l'Aga Khan vendredi au Caire, dote cette mégalopole de 17 millions d'habitants de ce qui lui faisait le plus défaut: un poumon.

When the official inauguration of Cairo's Al-Azhar Park unfolds this weekend, it will do so in two stages.

On Friday March 25, Egyptian first lady Suzanne Mubarak and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, a private agency which seeks to revitalize Muslim communities, inaugurated the largest public park built in Cairo in over a century.

For nearly 50 years, Prince Karim Aga Khan IV has striven to overcome the celebrity gloss of his life story. To 20 million Ismaili Muslims in Asia and Africa, the 68-year-old Aga Khan is the 49th hereditary imam, a spiritual leader who traces his lineage directly from the prophet Muhammad. But to readers of the popular media, he is the billionaire globe-trotting owner of 600 racehorses.

Divorcé de la bégum Salimah, le dieu vivant des ismaïliens vient d'épouser une princesse allemande de 35 ans.

La politique de développement entretenue par le Réseau Aga Khan de développement (AKDN) en Afrique de l'Ouest serait-elle aujourd'hui en perte de vitesse? Les propos de Son Altesse l'Aga Khan, arrivé avant-hier en Côte d'Ivoire, ne sont pas du tout rassurants.

Le 49ème imam héréditaire (chef spirituel) des musulmans chi'ites ismailis séjourne depuis mardi, en fin de journée, en Côte d'Ivoire

Mais une chose est sûre : la visite de Son Altesse l'Aga Khan est loin d'être un fait de hasard.

His Highness the Aga Khan today launched a landmark cultural centre in Dushanbe, Tajikistan marking a milestone in the 1300 year history of the Ismaili Muslim community in Central Asia.

According to BBC World Service, the leader of the world's Ismaili community, the Aga Khan, has been welcomed by thousands of his followers at the start of a visit to the Pamir mountains of eastern Tajikistan. On his arrival at the region's only airport, the Aga Khan was given the traditional welcome -- he was offered salt and bread.

He didn't attract as much attention as the Dalai Lama. He rarely does. But by the time he had slipped in and out of Ottawa on his private jet, the Aga Khan, spiritual leader of the world's 15 million Imami Ismaili Muslims, had given the city, and the country, a major gift. The Geneva-born imam, who is now based just outside Paris, has announced the creation of the Global Centre for Pluralism, which will be based in Ottawa.

We have a Gallery for the whole visit. It covers articles, photos and also videos. There are testimonies of people who went to Syria on this occasion and there are also photos of historical Ismaili places in Salamiyah and Masyaf. The Gallery can be visited

Hyderabad, India: Foundation Stone-Laying Ceremony of The Aga Khan Academy. In His SPEECH, His Highness the Aga Khan said: '...social progress can be greatest when aristocracies of class give way to aristocracies of talent