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Seminal American novelist Philip Roth dead at 85
AFP, Published on 23/05/2018
» NEW YORK: Grand man of American letters Philip Roth, a fierce and prolific talent who achieved fame with the sexually explicit "Portnoy's Complaint" in 1969, has died at 85, US media reported Wednesday.
Sting back to rock and striving to stay optimistic
AFP, Published on 30/09/2016
» NEW YORK - As Sting took up the refugee crisis for his latest album, he met in Berlin with musicians who fled Syria. The rock legend asked for their permission to record his song.
Academy head 'heartbroken' over lack of diversity at Oscars
AFP, Published on 19/01/2016
» LOS ANGELES - Following an outcry over the all-white roster of actors nominated for this year's Oscars, the president of the film academy said she was heartbroken by the lack of diversity and working to implement change.
KickstARTer: seven crowd-funded art projects for November
AFP, Published on 01/11/2012
» As November rolls around, we look at seven exciting, intriguing and ambitious Kickstarter art projects -- from a free public art initiative based in Chicago to performance art devoted to tea drinking in India and large print artworks based on complex mathematical theory.