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Main line-up at Berlin film festival
AFP, Published on 23/01/2023
» BERLIN - The 73rd Berlinale, Europe's first major film festival of the year, starts next month with new movies from around the world screening in the main showcase.
New Belgian opera evokes US racial discord
AFP, Published on 14/09/2021
» BRUSSELS - Baroque, jazz, rap: centuries of musical heritage intertwine to tell the tale of a mixed-race family in a new opera being premiered in Brussels based on an epic novel of America's troubled 20th century.
Final chord: royal piano restorer sells lifetime's collection
AFP, Published on 12/08/2021
» BIDDENDEN (UNITED KINGDOM) - There's little to distinguish the farm building in Kent, southeast England, from others nearby, except for one thing: the royal warrant over the door.
Woman in German custody over killings at disabled centre
AFP, Published on 29/04/2021
» POTSDAM (GERMANY) - An employee at a clinic for disabled people outside Berlin was arrested Thursday on suspicion of killing four people at the centre and wounding a fifth, police said, with the motive still unclear.
Haaland grabs first post-lockdown goal in Bundesliga
AFP, Published on 16/05/2020
» DORTMUND: The setting may be unfamiliar with the German Bundesliga returning behind closed doors after a two-month coronavirus shutdown, but the identity of the day's first goal-scorer was entirely familiar as Erling Braut Haaland put Borussia Dortmund ahead against Schalke on Saturday.
All aboard for new sports lighting up Tokyo Olympic 2020
AFP, Published on 21/01/2020
» TOKYO - Modern upstarts skateboarding and surfing as well as the ancient martial art of karate are among new sports for 2020 ready to inject some street cred into Tokyo.
AI puts final notes on Beethoven's Tenth Symphony
AFP, Published on 13/12/2019
» BERLIN: A few notes scribbled in his notebook are all that German composer Ludwig van Beethoven left of his Tenth Symphony before his death in 1827.
Conservationists urge Mexico trade sanctions over near-extinct porpoise
AFP, Published on 24/08/2019
» GENEVA - Conservationists are urging countries to slap trade sanctions on Mexico over its failure to rein in illegal fishing that could doom the vaquita marina porpoise to extinction within months.
Synagogue shooter spoke of 'genocide,' police ID victims
AFP, Published on 28/10/2018
» PITTSBURGH - The shooter in the attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue spoke of "genocide and his desire to kill Jewish people," authorities said Sunday, as they identified the dead and worked to console the living.
'Golden State Killer,' an ex-cop, US Navy vet, warehouse worker
AFP, Published on 27/04/2018
» WASHINGTON - It was one of the most notorious unsolved crime sprees in US history -- a decade-long series of sadistic rapes and murders that terrorized tranquil California neighborhoods.