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Low-paid women still waiting for their #MeToo moment
AFP, Published on 25/09/2025
» BORDEAUX, France - “You need the work,” one woman said, “so you shut your mouth.” #MeToo may have helped change the landscape for women in Hollywood and in the boardroom, but cleaners, secretaries and supermarket workers who have suffered sexual violence at work say it has yet to do much for them.
Vienna State Opera opens season with free, all-star gala concert
AFP, Published on 08/09/2025
» VIENNA — No dress code, no stiff atmosphere and no entry fees: Thousands flocked to a Viennese park Sunday as the Vienna State Opera opened its 2025-26 season with a star-studded open-air gala concert for the first time.
Bundesliga faces reckoning as Premier League flexes financial muscle
AFP, Published on 02/09/2025
» BERLIN - The Premier League's record transfer summer has had an acute impact on Germany, where even Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich have felt the impacts of English football's growing financial muscle.
Fires, strikes, pandemic and AI: Hollywood workers can't catch a break
AFP, Published on 25/02/2025
» BURBANK (UNITED STATES) - Dutch Merrick isn't really in a party mood for this year's Oscars.
Berlin opera passes baton from Barenboim
AFP, Published on 27/09/2023
» BERLIN - Berlin said on Wednesday that German maestro Christian Thielemann would succeed world-renowned conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim as general musical director of its State Opera following his resignation due to ill health.
French war photographer Marie-Laure de Decker dead at 75
AFP, Published on 16/07/2023
» PARIS - Marie-Laure de Decker, the French model who stepped behind the camera to become an internationally recognised war photographer, has died at the age of 75, her family said Saturday.
Bayern Munich make Tuchel new coach after Nagelsmann firing
AFP, Published on 25/03/2023
» MUNICH (GERMANY) - Bayern Munich announced Friday they had appointed former Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain coach Thomas Tuchel as their new boss after firing Julian Nagelsmann.
IPL will become 'world's biggest domestic sporting event', says Strauss
AFP, Published on 02/02/2023
» LONDON - Former England captain Andrew Strauss forecast Wednesday the Indian Premier League would eclipse American football's NFL to become "the biggest domestic sporting event in the world" as he praised it for sparking one of cricket's "great steps forward".
All-out drone war in Ukraine points to future
AFP, Published on 13/01/2023
» WASHINGTON - Deployed on a scale never seen before to carry out both surveillance and strikes, drones ranging from small commercially-available models to larger aircraft have become a defining feature of the Ukraine conflict.
Study: 96% of humans have 'felt' global warming
AFP, Published on 28/10/2022
» PARIS: Whether they realised it or not, some 7.6 billion people — 96%t of humanity — felt global warming's impact on temperatures over the last 12 months, researchers have said.