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Japan baseball fans leap into river as 'Curse of the Colonel' lifted
AFP, Published on 06/11/2023
» OSAKA (JAPAN) - Dozens of baseball fans in Osaka hurled themselves into a filthy city-centre river and partied long into the night after the Hanshin Tigers won the Japan Series for only the second time in their history.
New Beatles song set to reach number one on UK singles chart
AFP, Published on 06/11/2023
» LONDON - A new Beatles song, produced with the help of AI, is on track to be named number one on the UK's official singles chart on Sunday night, the chart company said.
New Beatles single 'Now and Then' set for release
AFP, Published on 02/11/2023
» LONDON - A new Beatles song produced with a little help from artificial intelligence and including the vocals of John Lennon will be released on Thursday, more than four decades after it was originally recorded as a demo.
‘Last’ Beatles song due out next week
AFP, Published on 26/10/2023
» LONDON - A much-anticipated "new" Beatles record, created with the help of artificial intelligence, will be released next Thursday, former band members Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have revealed.
A paw-some day trip: dogs ride Japan bullet train
AFP, Published on 22/05/2022
» KARUIZAWA (JAPAN) - On Japan's bullet trains, dogs usually have to travel in a carrier, but on Saturday they could stretch their paws and enjoy the scenery on a special pet-friendly express.
OJ Simpson a free man after parole ends: police
AFP, Published on 15/12/2021
» LOS ANGELES - OJ Simpson, the professional football player-turned-movie-star whose double murder trial gripped and divided the United States, is a free man after finishing his parole, police said Tuesday.
Unheard Lennon tape goes on sale in Denmark
AFP, Published on 28/09/2021
» COPENHAGEN: A 1970 tape of John Lennon singing a hitherto unheard song called "Radio Peace" and expressing frustration at his Beatles image to a group of Danish schoolboys goes under the hammer on Tuesday in Copenhagen.
'Que pasa, New York?': John Lennon and the city that set him free
AFP, Published on 05/12/2020
» NEW YORK - On December 8, 1980 the filigree gates of New York's Dakota residence across from Central Park went down in history as the spot John Lennon was shot dead.
Foreigners flock to Gibraltar to wed during pandemic
AFP, Published on 28/11/2020
» GIBRALTAR - Gibraltar was never on Bruno Miani's list of places to visit -- but that all changed when the pandemic upended his plans to marry his girlfriend in Dublin where they live.
The Beatles' legend lives on, 50 years after break-up
AFP, Published on 10/04/2020
» LONDON: When The Beatles went their separate ways in the early 1970s, few thought that half a century later the pioneering band would still influence pop music culture.