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Melania's hat, Epstein's ghost: takeaways from Trump's UK visit
AFP, Published on 19/09/2025
» LONDON - Pomp and politics, warm words, tech deals and a sumptuous state banquet. Britain pulled out all the stops to welcome US President Donald Trump.
World leaders seek elusive AI common ground at Paris summit
AFP, Published on 11/02/2025
» PARIS — World leaders were set to hold formal talks in Paris on Tuesday on artificial intelligence (AI), seeking elusive common ground on a technology subject to a global race for promised economic benefits.
To greenwash or do the right thing? Corporate dilemmas at COP28
AFP, Published on 02/12/2023
» DUBAI - They call the giant climate business expo running outside the COP28 United Nations talks in Dubai the "green zone".
Ancient priest's remains are a first-of-a-kind find for Peru team
AFP, Published on 28/08/2023
» LIMA - A group of Japanese and Peruvian archaeologists have discovered the 3,000-year-old tomb of a priest alongside ceramic offerings in northern Peru.
Britain ready for first coronation since 1953
AFP, Published on 06/05/2023
» LONDON: Charles III will be crowned king on Saturday in a solemn Christian ceremony steeped in 1,000 years of history and tradition, but adapted to reflect 21st-century Britain.
Thailand's China-built high-speed rail on track but delayed
AFP, Published on 12/04/2023
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA: One of Thailand's oldest railway stations is facing demolition as the kingdom presses ahead with a long-delayed Chinese-backed high-speed line that has caused unease about lost heritage and closer ties to Beijing.
Carnival of trumpets and colour returns to Cape Town
AFP, Published on 03/01/2023
» CAPE TOWN - Dressed in a green shirt with yellow and white polka dots, a blue pacifier in his mouth, two-year-old Thaakir Buzic on Monday led a colourful musical band through the streets of Cape Town, in South Africa -- from the safety of his grandfather's arms.
'Safari for sound': New York Philharmonic fine-tunes new home
AFP, Published on 23/09/2022
» NEW YORK: The New York Philharmonic is tuning up to open their brand-new performance space next month -- and it's not only the instruments that need to strike the perfect pitch.
Academy unearths long-lost 'race films' in Black cinema exhibit
AFP, Published on 19/08/2022
» LOS ANGELES: Long before Denzel Washington, Spike Lee or even Sidney Poitier, generations of pioneering and revolutionary Black US filmmakers played a key role in shaping early American cinema and dispelling pejorative stereotypes, a major new Hollywood exhibition argues.
Saudi women DJs go from hobbyists to headliners
AFP, Published on 31/07/2022
» JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia: Standing behind her control tower with headphones around her neck, Saudi DJ Leen Naif segues smoothly between pop hits and club tracks for a crowd of business school graduates noshing on sushi.