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Verstappen aims for another record as Red Bull head home
AFP, Published on 29/06/2023
» SPIELBERG BEI KNITTELFELD (AUSTRIA): Runaway leader and defending double world champion Max Verstappen bids to become the most successful driver in Austrian Grand Prix history this weekend as Red Bull plan a poignant ‘century’ celebration on home ground.
Legendary songwriter Burt Bacharach dead at 94
AFP, Published on 09/02/2023
» LOS ANGELES - Legendary American pop composer, songwriter and pianist Burt Bacharach, whose prolific output provided a chart-topping playlist for the 1960s and 1970s with hits like "I Say a Little Prayer," has died in Los Angeles at the age of 94.
Legendary songwriter Burt Bacharach dead at 94
AFP, Published on 09/02/2023
» LOS ANGELES - Legendary American pop composer Burt Bacharach, whose prolific output provided a chart-topping playlist for the 1960s and 70s with hits like "I Say a Little Prayer," has died in Los Angeles aged 94, US media said Thursday.
UK strikes to intensify as teachers and nurses announce walkouts
AFP, Published on 17/01/2023
» LONDON - Industrial action looked set to intensify Monday as Britain's largest teaching and nursing unions announced further walkouts over pay, while the government seeks to limit strikes with a controversial bill.
Verstappen wins USA Grand Prix, Red Bull take constructors' title
AFP, Published on 24/10/2022
» AUSTIN: World champion Max Verstappen clinched an emotional constructors' world championship for Red Bull on Sunday when he claimed a record-equalling 13th win this year at the United States Grand Prix.
Verstappen leads tributes to Red Bull founder Mateschitz
AFP, Published on 23/10/2022
» VIENNA - Formula One world champion Max Verstappen led the tributes on Sunday to Red Bull founder Dietrich Mateschitz, who turned the energy drink into a worldwide success and pumped money into a title-winning F1 team and several football clubs.
France's cabaret queen Zizi Jeanmaire dies aged 96
AFP, Published on 18/07/2020
» PARIS: French dancer and singer Zizi Jeanmaire, an iconic cabaret showgirl from the 1950s whose grace and glamour was celebrated on stage and in film the world over, died on Friday in Switzerland aged 96, her family told AFP.
Vera Lynn: the 'Forces' Sweetheart' of WWII Britain
AFP, Published on 18/06/2020
» LONDON - As long as there are still Britons alive who fought in World War II, the name of Vera Lynn will open a bittersweet floodgate of nostalgia.
Kirk Douglas, from ragman's son to Hollywood icon
AFP, Published on 06/02/2020
» LOS ANGELES - American cinema giant Kirk Douglas, who died on Wednesday aged 103, rose to the heights of Hollywood from an impoverished childhood as the son of Jewish Russian immigrants.
Russia probes pilot error after deadly plane blaze
AFP, Published on 07/05/2019
» MOSCOW - Russian investigators were on Tuesday considering pilot error as the cause of a crash-landing that saw a plane erupt in flames at Moscow's busiest airport and kill 41 people, media reported.