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French minister defends Playboy shoot as criticism mounts
AFP, Published on 06/04/2023
» PARIS - A feminist French minister who posed for Playboy told the magazine she backed the right of women to pose nude if they wanted to amid fresh criticism from her cabinet colleagues about her stunt on Wednesday.
Raquel Welch: sex symbol who never escaped her fur bikini
AFP, Published on 16/02/2023
» LOS ANGELES - When Raquel Welch donned a deerskin bikini for a 1966 caveman screen epic, she became one of the hottest sex symbols of her time, a role she never felt able to escape.
Of sports and war
Oped, Postbag, Published on 27/01/2023
» Re: "Why box over a name?" (Editorial, Jan 26).
Messina Denaro: a ruthless boss of the Sicilian Mafia
AFP, Published on 16/01/2023
» ROME: Sicilian godfather Matteo Messina Denaro, who was arrested on Monday after 30 years on the run, is a ruthless assassin whose violence fuelled the bloody reputation of the Cosa Nostra Mafia.
Home of the monsters
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 05/01/2022
» Monsters in fairy tales, myths and legends are fascinating due to mysterious images and stories. On display now at SAC Gallery, a group exhibition titled "Monster" takes viewers to explore extraordinary stories hidden behind the images of animals, humans and objects.
Belmondo, French film's handsome devil, dies at 88
AFP, Published on 06/09/2021
» PARIS - With his devil-may-care charm, Jean-Paul Belmondo, who has died aged 88, was the poster boy of the New Wave, France's James Dean and Humphrey Bogart rolled into one irresistible man.
Porn mogul Larry Flynt dead at 78
AFP, Published on 11/02/2021
» LOS ANGELES: US porn mogul Larry Flynt, best known as the publisher of Hustler Magazine and a self-styled free-speech champion, died in Los Angeles Wednesday aged 78, according to media reports.
The milkman who became a secret agent
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 08/11/2020
» To briefly escape from the US election mayhem, an appreciation of actor Sean Connery who died last week aged 90, seems to be in order. I had somehow thought Connery would go on forever, just like the Bond films. It is an intriguing tale of an Edinburgh milkman who became the most famous fictional spy in the world.
Florian Schneider, co-founder of Germany's iconic Kraftwerk, dead at 73
AFP, Published on 07/05/2020
» BERLIN: Kraftwerk's Florian Schneider, co-founder of the pioneering electronic music group that re-wired the future of pop, has died, the group's management said Wednesday. He was 73 years old.
Playboy Magazine Shuts Down Print Edition, Citing Coronavirus
Business, Published on 20/03/2020
» Playboy magazine, the once pace-setting journal that chronicled the sexual revolution through a mix of high-gloss nude photographs and top-rate fiction and journalism, will end its print run in the U.S. after nearly seven decades on the newsstand, Playboy Enterprises Inc. said Wednesday.