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Paris return 'too soon' for Liverpool fans traumatised by 2022 Champions League final
AFP, Published on 04/03/2025
» LIVERPOOL - Liverpool's return to Paris for the first time since the 2022 Champions League final comes too soon for many supporters still scarred by the traumatic events that marred European football's showpiece event.
Trauma and tragedy in the City of Angels: covering the LA fires
AFP, Published on 16/01/2025
» PARIS - Terrified residents caught in blazing neighbourhoods, influencers ignoring the ban on drones and the frightening unpredictability of the wildfires are just some of what journalists covering the fires ravaging Los Angeles for AFP have had to manage.
London mourners brave long wait for 'seconds' with queen
AFP, Published on 14/09/2022
» LONDON: Braving chilly winds and a rainy night, mourners gathered in London before dawn on Wednesday, ready to endure hours of discomfort for a chance to view Queen Elizabeth II's coffin lying in state.
Baby boom: the endangered wildlife revival at Cambodia's Angkor Wat
AFP, Published on 02/08/2022
» SIEM REAP: The melodic songs from families of endangered monkeys ring out over the jungle near Cambodia's Angkor Wat temple complex -- a sign of ecological rejuvenation decades after hunting decimated wildlife at the site.
ZZ Top bassist Dusty Hill dies at age 72
AFP, Published on 29/07/2021
» NEW YORK: Dusty Hill, the long-serving bassist of American rock-blues band ZZ Top, has died at the age of 72, his fellow band members announced on Facebook Wednesday.
Scientists throw lifeline to world's rarest primate
AFP, Published on 16/10/2020
» PARIS: Hainan gibbons -- the rarest primates on Earth -- were already teetering on the edge of extinction in 2014 when the most powerful storm to lash China's coast in half a century ravaged their island oasis.
Pacquiao camp says McGregor fight being considered
AFP, Published on 26/09/2020
» LOS ANGELES: Manny Pacquiao is mulling a possible fight with Irish mixed martial arts star Conor McGregor as he plots his return to the ring, representatives for the Filipino boxing icon told AFP on Friday.
As the pandemic surges, Americans see travel horizons narrowing
AFP, Published on 19/07/2020
» WASHINGTON: After months of working from home, stir-crazy Americans have finally reached the long, hot days of summer only to watch their vacation horizons dim, with travel options shrinking as the country's coronavirus cases soar.
Weinstein conviction: a watershed for acquaintance rape cases
AFP, Published on 27/02/2020
» NEW YORK - Prosecutors have long been hesitant to take on cases of acquaintance rape, as they were convinced that jurors would have a hard time believing the victims -- and drawing fine distinctions about consent.
Bowhead whales not only singers, but avid composers too
AFP, Published on 04/04/2018
» PARIS - How do bowhead whales in the unbroken darkness of the Arctic's polar winter keep busy during breeding season?