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'Artists of steel': Japanese swords forge new fanbase
AFP, Published on 11/02/2026
» MISATO, SAITAMA (JAPAN) - Sparks illuminate the soot-covered studio of Japanese swordsmith Akihira Kawasaki as his apprentice hammers red-hot steel, showcasing a millennium-old craft now enjoying a resurgence in popularity.
'It was bananas': Colin Farrell shoots new movie in Macau casinos
AFP, Published on 10/09/2025
» TORONTO — Colin Farrell plunges into an intoxicating fever dream among the high-stakes baccarat tables of Macau casinos with "Ballad of a Small Player," a rare major Western film shot on location in Asia's gambling capital.
Actors' union sues Fortnite over AI Darth Vader
AFP, Published on 20/05/2025
» LOS ANGELES (UNITED STATES) - An actors' union is suing the makers of the Fortnite video game over the use of AI to create an interactive Darth Vader, it said Monday.
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.
NY Met to let French make 3D copies of 16th-century sculptures
AFP, Published on 20/02/2023
» NEW YORK: Two 16th-century sculptures, jewels of French Renaissance art, have been on display since 1908 at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Japan's Indigenous peoples fight stigma to reclaim identities
AFP, Published on 17/02/2023
» BIRATORI/NAHA (JAPAN) - In a forest in northern Japan's Hokkaido, Atsushi Monbetsu kneels on the moss in the thick morning fog and begins to pray in a language that has nearly disappeared.
Ethiopia marks Epiphany with water, colour and prayer
AFP, Published on 19/01/2023
» ZIWAY (ETHIOPIA) - Aboard canoes, motorboats and kayaks fashioned from papyrus stems, the faithful converged on a lake in central Ethiopia to celebrate the Orthodox holiday of Epiphany, known locally as "Timkat".
Christie's cancels controversial T-rex auction in Hong Kong
AFP, Published on 21/11/2022
» HONG KONG: Christie's has called off the auction of a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, the auction house told AFP on Monday, after doubts were raised about the authenticity of some of the bones.
Stolen gods: Nepal seeks to bring home lost treasures
AFP, Published on 30/11/2021
» KATHMANDU - When Virginia Tech professor Sweta Gyanu Baniya saw an ornate 17th-century Nepali necklace in the Art Institute of Chicago, she burst into tears, bowed down and began to pray.
'Non-lethal' guns -- a deadly scourge in Bogota
AFP, Published on 28/09/2021
» BOGOTA - One can buy them on street corners, legally, for the price of a toy -- so-called non-lethal guns that nevertheless maim, and which proliferate in Colombia's crime-plagued cities.