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Inside the world of ultra-luxury wedding cakes
AFP, Published on 21/04/2026
» PARIS — Competing for attention with Jennifer Lopez is no easy task. But at a recent wedding in India where the American star performed in a barely-there sparkly leotard, it was arguably the cake that stole the show.
School's out forever in ageing Japan
AFP, Published on 31/10/2023
» NAMEGATA (JAPAN) - Fading photos of smiling children still adorn the staircase walls at the Ashigakubo primary school, one of thousands that have shut in ageing Japan over the past 20 years.
Aspartame, the much-debated artificial sweetener
AFP, Published on 14/07/2023
» PARIS: The artificial sweetener aspartame, which is consumed by millions every day as a sugar substitute in products such as diet soft drinks, has long been the topic of fierce debate over its impact on health.
Climbers at odds over far-right dogwhistle route names
AFP, Published on 09/11/2022
» WIENER NEUSTADT (AUSTRIA) - Just outside Vienna, climbers scramble up "Fortress Europe", one of the routes up an impressive rockface towering over fields and forests.
Pink 'soul refresher' unites wilting Indians and Pakistanis
AFP, Published on 09/06/2022
» NEW DELHI - Pakistan and India have fought three wars and countless skirmishes, but as summers get hotter with climate change, their peoples are united by love for a cooling 115-year-old pink libation with a secret recipe.
Tourist-free Phuket a 'ghost island'
AFP, Published on 09/10/2020
» PHUKET: Go-go dancers sit playing on their phones in empty bars lining deserted streets as this tourist island continues to reel from the ravages of the coronavirus pandemic with little sign of any recovery soon.
Japan's falling tea industry pins hopes on global matcha craze
AFP, Published on 28/08/2019
» FUJIEDA, Japan: From matcha ice cream to cake and chocolate, producers of traditional Japanese green tea are capitalising on growing global interest in its flavour -- even as demand for the drink declines at home.
High-end rebrand makes life sweet for Japan's 'ice farmers'
AFP, Published on 18/08/2019
» NIKKO (JAPAN) - In a mountainous area north of Tokyo, a priest blows a conch shell as Yuichiro Yamamoto bows and thanks the nature gods for this year's "good harvest": natural ice.
Paris rediscovers appetite for its world-beating 'bouillons'
AFP, Published on 17/06/2019
» PARIS - Every weekend a queue snakes down the street not far from the Moulin Rouge in Paris.
UAE expats get taste of Ramadan traditional sweets
AFP, Published on 29/05/2019
» DUBAI - Nida Mohammed drove for more than an hour from Fujairah to Sharjah in the UAE just to buy special Iraqi sweets and juices for the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.