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Freddie Mercury's private collection goes on show in UK
AFP, Published on 04/08/2023
» LONDON: From fanciful costumes and working drafts of "Bohemian Rhapsody" to ashtrays and art, hundreds of items Freddie Mercury owned go on show in Britain on Friday before being sold next month.
Devastation reigns one month after Ukraine dam flood
AFP, Published on 05/07/2023
» AFANASIYIVKA, Ukraine: Clothes, sofas and kitchen furniture still lie strewn around Nadiya Yefremova's garden a month after her home was flooded by the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine.
Bird statue fetches $100,000 as Musk auctions Twitter HQ items
AFP, Published on 19/01/2023
» SAN FRANCISCO: A Twitter bird statue fetched $100,000 on Wednesday as Elon Musk auctioned off furniture, decorations, kitchen equipment and more from the tech firm's downtown San Francisco headquarters.
'A legend': Ukraine bids farewell to boxing coach killed by Russian missile
AFP, Published on 18/01/2023
» DNIPRO (UKRAINE) - Hundreds of people packed a local sports academy in Dnipro Tuesday to pay their respects to boxing coach Mykhaylo Korenovsky, who was killed when a Russian missile hit an apartment block last weekend.
Viral photo changes Brazil garbage-pickers' lives
AFP, Published on 15/03/2022
» SAO PAULO: A holiday story that emerged from an unlikely place took a heartwarming turn when Gabriel Silva, a Brazilian boy photographed pulling a Christmas tree from a garbage dump, managed to help buy his family a house.
'We have nothing left': Philippine typhoon survivors plead for help
AFP, Published on 22/12/2021
» LOBOC, Philippines: Concepcion Tumanda picks through the mud-caked wreckage of her home on a Philippine island devastated by Typhoon Rai that left hundreds dead across the country and survivors pleading for food and water.
Ikea France faces verdict over employee spying claims
AFP, Published on 15/06/2021
» PARIS: A French court is to rule Tuesday on claims Swedish furniture giant Ikea set up an elaborate system to illegally spy on hundreds of employees and job applicants from 2009 to 2012, using private detectives as well as police.
Azerbaijan reclaims disputed land in Karabakh peace deal
AFP, Published on 20/11/2020
» AGHDAM (AZERBAIJAN) - Armenia was due to hand over disputed territory to Azerbaijan on Friday as part of a contentious Russian-brokered peace accord that ended weeks of brutal fighting over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Gifts, popsicles and mass: Chinese villagers recall Biden's 2001 visit
AFP, Published on 11/11/2020
» BEIJING - Nearly two decades ago, the residents of a small Chinese village near Beijing were visited by a foreigner who is soon to become America's most powerful man: Joe Biden.
16 dead after Typhoon Goni batters Philippines
AFP, Published on 02/11/2020
» MANILA - The most powerful typhoon to hit the Philippines this year destroyed tens of thousands of homes and killed at least 16 people, officials said Monday, as communications to the worst-hit areas remained cut off.