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'Love for humanity': Low-crime Japan's unpaid parole officers
AFP, Published on 22/01/2025
» TOKYO - Teruko Nakazawa once intervened in a knife fight between an ex-offender and their mother -- all in a day's unpaid work for Japan's army of volunteer probation officers.
US music supremo Quincy Jones, who worked with Sinatra and Jackson, dies aged 91
Published on 04/11/2024
» Quincy Jones, the man known simply as "Q," was a huge influence on American music in his work with artists ranging from Count Basie to Frank Sinatra and reshaped pop music in his collaborations with Michael Jackson.
New releases for your streaming pleasure: April 3-9
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 03/04/2024
» Looking for a title to binge-watch this weekend? Here's our pick!
China’s advancing efforts to influence the US election raise alarms
Published on 01/04/2024
» Covert Chinese accounts are masquerading online as American supporters of former President Donald Trump, promoting conspiracy theories, stoking domestic divisions and attacking President Joe Biden ahead of the election in November, according to researchers and government officials.
Coolio, rapper behind hit 'Gangsta's Paradise', dies
AFP, Published on 29/09/2022
» Coolio, the American rapper best known for the chart-topping 1995 song "Gangsta's Paradise," has died, his manager said Wednesday. He was 59 years old.
Academy unearths long-lost 'race films' in Black cinema exhibit
AFP, Published on 19/08/2022
» LOS ANGELES: Long before Denzel Washington, Spike Lee or even Sidney Poitier, generations of pioneering and revolutionary Black US filmmakers played a key role in shaping early American cinema and dispelling pejorative stereotypes, a major new Hollywood exhibition argues.
Sukhumvit speakeasy
Guru, Pornchai Sereemongkonpol, Published on 12/08/2022
» Located on the underground level of The Coach Hotel Sukhumvit 14 Bangkok and behind wrought iron doors, Abandoned Mansion Bangkok is a new speakeasy inspired by America's Prohibition and notorious gangsters associated with the ban on alcohol period.
James Caan, star of 'The Godfather' and 'Misery,' dies at 82
AFP, Published on 08/07/2022
» LOS ANGELES - James Caan, the tough-guy US actor best known for playing tragic and hot-tempered gangster heir Sonny Corleone in "The Godfather," has died aged 82, his manager said Thursday.
Mums cry for their young at Salvadoran prison
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 29/05/2022
» A 19-year-old stumbled out of a police car and fell into the arms of his girlfriend, who stole a desperate kiss. His older sister, watching, cried out. Seconds later, the young man, Irvin Antonio Hernandez, was gone, dragged into the prison across the street.
Relief and alarm as El Salvador rounds up 'gangsters'
AFP, Published on 27/04/2022
» SAN SALVADOR - An unprecedented round up of alleged gangsters in El Salvador has netted thousands of suspects and brought relief to citizens living in constant fear.