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'Murder, She Wrote' star Angela Lansbury dies aged 96
AFP, Published on 12/10/2022
» LOS ANGELES: Actress Angela Lansbury, who became a household name through her role as a writer-detective in "Murder, She Wrote," died on Tuesday, her family announced. She was 96.
Russia and China eye NATO's 'Arctic Achilles heel'
AFP, Published on 23/06/2022
» BARENTSBURG (SVALBARD): Russian flags flap in the stiff polar breeze, a bust of Lenin looms out of the snow and a vast slogan declares, "Communism is our goal!"
Store workers vote to form first US Apple union
AFP, Published on 19/06/2022
» SAN FRANCISCO - A majority of employees at a US Apple store have voted to form the tech giant's first union, in the wake of similar unionization drives at Starbucks and Amazon locations.
Apple store workers vote to form their first US union
AFP, Published on 19/06/2022
» SAN FRANCISCO: A majority of employees at a US Apple store have voted to form a union, a first for the tech giant, which has so far tried to discourage unionizing attempts.
Bach says controversial Beijing Olympics 'will change winter sports'
AFP, Published on 03/02/2022
» BEIJING - The Beijing Olympics will "change the scale of winter sports forever", IOC president Thomas Bach said Thursday, on the eve of a Games beset by concerns about human rights and Covid.
'No justice': N.Ireland marks 'Bloody Sunday' amid Brexit backdrop
AFP, Published on 30/01/2022
» LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland, UK: The Northern Irish city of Londonderry commemorates one of the darkest days in modern UK history on Sunday when, 50 years ago, British troops opened fire without provocation on civil rights protesters.
Counting the coronavirus cost at Tokyo's Olympics
AFP, Published on 08/08/2021
» TOKYO - The pandemic affected almost every part of Tokyo's Olympics, forcing a historic postponement, the banning of almost all spectators, and ending the dreams of more than a few athletes.
Fourth Covid case in Olympic Village as Toyota rules out Games ads
AFP, Published on 19/07/2021
» TOKYO: The Tokyo Olympic Village was hit by a fourth coronavirus case on Monday and major sponsor Toyota said it will not run any Games-related TV ads as the event struggles for support just days before the opening ceremony.
The unstoppable revenge of the mullet
AFP, Published on 05/03/2021
» PARIS: "Business in front, party in the back": a hairstyle considered so obnoxious that for years it verged on being an arrestable offence, the mullet has made the unlikeliest comeback of the century.
World's longest-running TV soap, Coronation Street, turns 60
AFP, Published on 09/12/2020
» LONDON - The world's longest-running TV soap opera, Britain's cosy working-class series "Coronation Street," celebrates 60 years on screen on Wednesday, defying social changes and the pandemic.