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Highlights from Cannes as film festival wraps up
AFP, Published on 25/05/2025
» CANNES (FRANCE) - As the Cannes film festival hands out its prizes, AFP looks back at some of the highlights of a politically charged fortnight of screenings and celebrity sightings.
Taliban Looks to Private Sector to Save Afghanistan's Economy From Collapse
Business, Published on 22/02/2022
» With its economy in free fall, the Taliban is banking on private enterprise to rescue Afghanistan's people and solidify its regime.
From Comic-Con to Cannes, Pandemic-Hit Events Look for Ways to Convene
Business, Published on 04/05/2020
» Every year, 130,000 sci-fi and fantasy fans donning Captain America and Princess Leia costumes crowd into the San Diego Convention Center for the event known as Comic-Con, where they mingle with stars and other fans. Some 15,000 advertising executives descend on the French Riviera for a festival in Cannes, where parties on cozy yachts are the norm. At New York's Fancy Food Show, attendees sample each other's caviar and paté.
Fish kills sergeant in freak attack
Gary Boyle, Published on 14/12/2018
» The chief petty officer who bled to death after a fish cut his throat during training with the navy on Wednesday was the victim of a very rare attack by a 'barred long tom' fish.
Fish with sword-like beak kills sergeant in freak attack
News, Published on 14/12/2018
» The chief petty officer who bled to death after a fish cut his throat during training with the navy on Wednesday was the victim of a very rare attack by a 'barred long tom' fish.
Secretive Russian billionaire vents to US conservatives
News, Leonid Bershidsky, Published on 13/03/2018
» It's not every day that a Russian billionaire submits a op-ed piece to the Daily Caller, the conservative US website. When the billionaire in question is as media-shy as Oleg Deripaska, something extraordinary is going on. As the unfortunate recipient of an oversized role in the "Trump-Russia" scandal, he has had enough and is not quite sure how to defend himself.
BMW wheelchairs, high-tech bikes: life in the Paralympic fast lane
AFP, Published on 12/09/2016
» RIO DE JANEIRO - A wheelchair made by BMW and a prototype bike so valuable it must be kept under guard are two of the new weapons in Rio Paralympians' unending race for a competitive advantage.
Far too enterprising
News, Postbag, Published on 19/09/2015
» Re: “AoT to unlock ‘airport cities’,” (Business, Sept 18). The Prayut Chan-o-cha government should not allow state enterprises to get involved in businesses that have nothing to do with their core undertaking.
Social media not banned
News, Published on 15/02/2015
» Re: “Leaders must face up to their critics” (BP, Feb 1).
Not so stolen, Family fracas, Gypsy's jealous man, Just friends?
News, Mae Moo, Published on 03/02/2013
» The saga over the reported theft at actress Kemanij "Pancake" Jamikorn's home has ended on a strange note with her mother claiming she simply misplaced the items and that no robbery occurred.