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'Monetizing hate': Unease as misinformation swirls on Twitter
AFP, Published on 17/04/2023
» WASHINGTON - When the iconic US diaper company Huggies was swamped with false pedophilia allegations last month, the conspiracy was traced to a once-banned influencer reinstated to Twitter by Elon Musk.
Drag queens newest targets in US culture wars
AFP, Published on 01/03/2023
» WASHINGTON - It's the latest battlefield in America's rolling "culture wars" over gender and education: conservatives around the country are training their sights on drag shows -- assailing them as a threat to public decency and family values.
Late Australian cardinal's funeral sparks Sydney protests
AFP, Published on 02/02/2023
» SYDNEY: Protestors confronted mourners with chants of "shame" outside the funeral of controversial top Vatican cardinal George Pell in Sydney on Thursday.
Disney's Mickey Mouse cartoon will soon be public property
Published on 28/12/2022
» LOS ANGELES: There is nothing soft and cuddly about the way The Walt Disney Co. protects the characters it brings to life.
Revisiting the 'Mona Lisa' theft
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 23/10/2022
» Oct 8 was the anniversary of the birth -- and the death -- of the Italian painter who made perhaps the biggest art repatriation blunder in history.
A harrowing odyssey
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 03/07/2022
» The three sisters knew they had to leave home. They were African wild dogs, elite predators of the sub-Saharan region and among the most endangered mammals on Earth. At 3 years old, they were in the prime of their vigour, ferocity and buoyant, pencil-limbed indifference to gravity.
Elton John: still standing at 75
AFP, Published on 25/03/2022
» LONDON - British pop superstar Elton John turned 75 on Friday, but vowed to keep making music, even as he tours the world for the final time.
Josephine Baker: France's adopted Black superstar immortalised
AFP, Published on 22/11/2021
» PARIS - Josephine Baker overcame the racism that she parodied in her famous banana skirt dance to become the world's first Black female superstar.
Archaeologists in Iraq find ancient wine press, carvings
AFP, Published on 25/10/2021
» DOHUK, Iraq: Archaeologists in Iraq have revealed their discovery of a large-scale wine factory from the rule of the Assyrian kings 2,700 years ago, along with stunning monumental rock-carved royal reliefs.
India's endangered lion prides conquer disease to roam free
AFP, Published on 23/02/2021
» GIR NATIONAL PARK (INDIA) - Three years after a deadly virus struck India's endangered Asiatic lions in their last remaining natural habitat, conservationists are hunting for new homes to help booming prides roam free.