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AFP, Published on 07/04/2025
» NEW YORK - The music industry is fighting on platforms, through the courts and with legislators in a bid to prevent the theft and misuse of art from generative AI -- but it remains an uphill battle.
AFP, Published on 20/07/2023
» CIVITAVECCHIA (ITALY) - On the third of every month, hundreds of the faithful gather in a windswept field in a village near Rome where they believe a statue of the Virgin Mary is crying tears of blood.
AFP, Published on 07/06/2023
» LEADVILLE (UNITED STATES) - Some time during a 200-mile race, maybe when she has been awake all night, ultra runner Courtney Dauwalter will probably start hallucinating.
AFP, Published on 29/03/2023
» ON BOARD A BOEING 737 MEDEVAC PLANE (POLAND) - You can see the pain held just in check in the faces of Ukraine's war wounded as they are evacuated in a flying hospital.
AFP, Published on 03/03/2023
» KYIV (UKRAINE) - A joke about his mother's reaction to air raids gets a laugh of recognition for Anton Boldyrev as the young Ukrainian comedian performs stand-up at a Kyiv club.
AFP, Published on 28/09/2022
» FRISCO (UNITED STATES) - The little aircraft appeared out of the blue sky above a Texas home, deposited its payload of a mid-morning snack in the yard and zoomed off, as deliveries by drone start becoming a reality in America.
AFP, Published on 15/02/2022
» NAPLES, Italy: A shot of dark, velvety coffee is more than just a quick caffeine hit: Italy's espresso is a prized social and cultural ritual the country considers a national heritage worthy of Unesco status.
AFP, Published on 22/07/2021
» STOCKHOLM: Two Swedish prison guards were held hostage for nine hours on Wednesday by two inmates demanding pizza as ransom, and were released when the food was delivered, a spokeswoman for the penitentiary told AFP.
AFP, Published on 23/05/2021
» ENKöPING (SWEDEN) - One after another, grocery stores are shutting down in rural Sweden, leaving villagers to travel miles to buy food. But a new type of shop has sprung up in their wake: unmanned supermarkets in mobile containers.
AFP, Published on 27/11/2020
» JEMAPOH (MALAYSIA) - A Malaysian family have cooked up a tasty solution to their economic woes during the pandemic by opening a backyard pizzeria that has proved a hit in their sleepy village.