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Wimbledon: England’s garden Grand Slam
AFP, Published on 26/06/2025
» LONDON - Wimbledon head gardener Martyn Falconer is the only man at the All England Club who welcomes a drop of rain.
The trends at Paris Women's Fashion Week
AFP, Published on 10/03/2025
» PARIS - Lots of fur and leather, ever-expanding shoulder pads and shoes, splashes of yellow: AFP looks at some of the trends from Paris Women's Fashion Week, which wraps up on Tuesday.
China's 'art factory' painters turn from fakes to originals
AFP, Published on 30/03/2023
» DAFEN (CHINA) - Painters in a Chinese village once known for churning out replicas of Western masterpieces are now making original art worth thousands of dollars, selling their own works in a booming domestic art market.
Bumpy road as ageing Japan bets on self-driving cars
AFP, Published on 16/09/2021
» TOKYO: With an ageing population in need of transport, Japan is betting on autonomous cars, but an accident involving a self-driving showcase at the Paralympics illustrates the challenges ahead.
Rarely seen Paris Van Gogh sells for €13m
AFP, Published on 26/03/2021
» PARIS: One of the few paintings by Vincent Van Gogh still in private hands, "Street Scene in Montmartre", was sold for over €13 million on Thursday at auction after going on public display for the first time this week, Sotheby's said.
Rocker David Crosby on songwriting, 'emotional voyages' and Donald Trump
AFP, Published on 17/01/2021
» NEW YORK - Like all entertainers, David Crosby -- the mustachioed co-founder of both the seminal folk rock band The Byrds and the supergroup Crosby, Stills and Nash (and Young) -- had a disappointing 2020 that saw the pandemic ground tours and thwart live performance.
Rising star turns up the glamour at London fashion
AFP, Published on 16/02/2020
» LONDON - Richard Quinn, the rising star of British design, on Saturday dazzled London fashion week, playing the glamour card with a sumptuous, flower-filled show.
Claude Monet's Haystack painting fetches B3.5bn at auction
AFP, Published on 15/05/2019
» NEW YORK: A Claude Monet painting from his celebrated "Meules" (Haystacks) series fetched $110.7 million (3.5 billion baht) in New York on Tuesday in an auction record for the French Impressionist master.
Da Vinci 'claw hand' may have impaired later art: study
AFP, Published on 05/05/2019
» PARIS - Leonardo da Vinci may have suffered traumatic nerve damage that left him with a "claw hand", impairing his ability to paint in later life, a new study said.
Shoes and stripes: Brits present Ferragamo, Cavalli shows
AFP, Published on 23/02/2019
» MILAN - British designers on Saturday presented fashion collections for two Italian houses at Milan fashion week, with one inspired by shoes as key items, and the other by tiger motifs.