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Dance gets world's first heavy metal ballet
AFP, Published on 28/04/2023
» BIRMINGHAM (UNITED KINGDOM) - Pirouette, leap, air guitar, stomp. In a practice room in central England, dancers move gracefully in unison, combining classical ballet with new, heavy metal-inspired steps.
'Not ready': Taiwan reservists stoic but unprepared for China threat
AFP, Published on 25/08/2022
» TAIPEI - Sitting pensively in a pew at a Taipei church, army reservist Henry Cheng is nonchalant about the Chinese warships and jets circling his island -- but he also feels ill-prepared for war.
Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts dies at 80
AFP, Published on 25/08/2021
» LONDON: British drummer Charlie Watts, who died on Tuesday at 80, was known as the quiet man of the scandal-soaked Rolling Stones, keeping the beat for the legendary rock group in his own steady style.
Shocking video shows tsunami rip through stage as band performs
AFP, Published on 23/12/2018
» CARITA, Indonesia: Dramatic video posted online showed the tsunami that struck Indonesia smashing into an open-air concert, hurling members of a rock band from the stage and slamming into the audience.
X Japan superstar looks at what could have been
AFP, Published on 21/10/2016
» NEW YORK - X Japan would have been hard-pressed to imagine a more impassioned following in its heyday, with the symphonic metal group's 1997 breakup in Tokyo taking on an air of national mourning.
Final parades start in Rio's morale-boosting carnival
AFP, Published on 09/02/2016
» RIO DE JANEIRO - Dancers -- some nearly naked, others in elaborate costumes -- strutted into the final round of the Rio Carnival's samba championship Monday, capping a wild party that has helped Brazilians forget about Zika and other worries.
At Rio carnival, not even downpour dampens show
AFP, Published on 16/02/2015
» Tens of thousands of people defied a thunderstorm to pack Rio's Sambadrome as elite dance schools paraded in dazzling costumes and revelers shed inhibitions at street parties.
Tense Ferguson braces for US grand jury decision
AFP, Published on 23/11/2014
» FERGUSON (UNITED STATES) - The father of a black teenager killed by police in the St Louis suburb of Ferguson sought to ease tensions as protesters stepped up calls for a grand jury to indict the white officer responsible.
Olympics 2012: Live Report
AFP, Published on 12/08/2012
» So that's it for this Live Report -- thanks for being with us during this momentous Games. LIVE REPORT ENDS.
Afghans sing again -- of love and war
AFP, Published on 26/06/2012
» In a country where music was silenced in the name of Allah for five years, the beat is back and even rock shares the airwaves with the romantic strains of traditional Afghan songs.