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Ariana Grande, Lady Gaga land top honours at MTV's Video Music Awards
Reuters, Published on 08/09/2025
» NEW YORK — Pop singer Ariana Grande claimed the top prize at the MTV (Music Television) Video Music Awards (VMA), and Lady Gaga and Sabrina Carpenter scored major honours, at a star-studded celebration of fan favorites in New York on Sunday.
Pogba, potions and impotence: the secret world of witch doctors in France
AFP, Published on 14/11/2023
» PARIS - "There's a lot of jealousy in football," said Sheikh Issa, holding up a piece of bark and a bottle of a yellowish potion.
French ex-president Sarkozy convicted for corruption
AFP, Published on 01/03/2021
» PARIS: Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was found guilty of corruption on Monday and handed a three-year prison sentence after a court in Paris convicted him for trying to illegally influence a judge during his time in office.
Crunch time for France's Sarkozy as graft trial opens
AFP, Published on 23/11/2020
» PARIS - Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy goes on trial Monday for attempted bribery of a judge in what could turn into a humiliating postscript to a political career tainted by a litany of legal woes.
Ex-French president Sarkozy hit with new Libya financing charge
AFP, Published on 16/10/2020
» PARIS - French prosecutors said Friday that they had charged former president Nicolas Sarkozy over claims he accepted cash from the Libyan dictatorship of Moamer Kadhafi for his 2007 election campaign.
France's Sarkozy to go on trial after final appeal fails
AFP, Published on 19/06/2019
» PARIS - France's former president Nicolas Sarkozy is to go on trial facing charges of corruption and influence peddling after losing his final bid to avert appearing in the dock, sources close to the case said Wednesday.
Amazon's Bezos, ex-wife reach biggest divorce deal in history
AFP, Published on 05/04/2019
» NEW YORK: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his ex-wife, MacKenzie, finalised the biggest divorce settlement in history on Thursday, leaving him with 75% of their stock in the tech giant and giving her nearly US$36 billion in shares.
Strike over long queues shuts Eiffel Tower for second day
AFP, Published on 02/08/2018
» PARIS - The Eiffel Tower was turning away tourists for a second day on Thursday as workers pressed a strike over a new access policy which they say is causing unacceptably long wait times for visitors.
French ex-president Sarkozy held in Libya financing probe
AFP, Published on 20/03/2018
» PARIS - French ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy was taken into police custody Tuesday and questioned over allegations that late Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi financed his 2007 election campaign via suitcases stuffed with cash, a source close to the inquiry told AFP.