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Dragonfly Summit 2025 spotlights leadership and wellness in Bangkok
Published on 29/09/2025
» The Dragonfly Summit 2025, billed as Asia’s largest leadership and holistic wellness gathering, drew more than 3,000 participants to Paragon Hall in Bangkok over the weekend.
Beam me up please, Scotty
Published on 26/05/2024
» With a rhonchi-like sound in their throats as a signal from five Lord Buddhas, a man and a woman duo in Udon Thani claim they can cure sick people using a celestial frequency.
More jail time for Pakistani ex-PM Khan
Published on 03/02/2024
» ISLAMABAD - Former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Khan were sentenced to seven years in prison and fined on Saturday by a court that ruled their 2018 marriage violated the law, ARY News reported.
Pogba, potions and impotence: the secret world of witch doctors in France
AFP, Published on 14/11/2023
» PARIS - "There's a lot of jealousy in football," said Sheikh Issa, holding up a piece of bark and a bottle of a yellowish potion.
DR Congo's 'voodoo wrestling' is spellbinding fun
Published on 09/08/2023
» KINSHASA: There has been a power cut, and under moonlight in a poor quarter of DR Congo's capital, wrestler Maitresse Libondans explains how she invokes her ancestors to cast spells that rout her opponents.
‘Voodoo wrestling’ is spellbinding fun in DR Congo
AFP, Published on 02/08/2023
» KINSHASA: There has been a power cut, and under moonlight in a poor quarter of DR Congo's capital, wrestler Maitresse Libondans explains how she invokes her ancestors to cast spells that rout her opponents.
Pakistan’s top court orders Imran Khan released
Published on 11/05/2023
» ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the release of detained former prime minister Imran Khan, offering a major victory for the onetime leader who was arrested on graft charges, and escalating a political crisis that has engulfed the country.
Marvel superhero holds fast to Maya roots
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 30/04/2023
» For her big underwater scene in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Guatemalan actress María Mercedes Coroy had to hold her breath as her character, Princess Fen, gives birth in a hazy ocean world to a winged serpent son.
Spiritual healer a phenomenon in troubled Burkina
AFP, Published on 03/03/2023
» OUAGADOUGOU: A line of cars and motorcycles cuts across the arid West African landscape, kicking up clouds of dust on the unpaved road.
The doctor is out
Life, John Clewley, Published on 11/06/2019
» Dr John, the High Priest of New Orleans' hoodoo, the Night Tripper and one of the heirs to Professor Longhair's legacy, died last week at the age of 77. He was widely regarded as one of the Crescent City's most accomplished musicians -- a master bandleader, songwriter, guitarist, voodoo showman and pianist. He was comfortable moving between blues, jazz, funk, boogie-woogie and anything else he fancied, and he was known as a keeper of New Orleans' piano traditions.