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Redford's Sundance legacy 'beyond comprehension' for US filmmakers
AFP, Published on 17/09/2025
» SUNDANCE (UNITED STATES) - Robert Redford was rarely spotted at Sundance in his final years, yet the late Hollywood legend forever looms large at the influential US movie festival he co-created.
ChatGPT to get parental controls after teen's death
AFP, Published on 03/09/2025
» PARIS - American artificial intelligence firm OpenAI said Tuesday it would add parental controls to its chatbot ChatGPT, a week after an American couple said the system encouraged their teenaged son to kill himself.
Shear bliss for New Zealand's pampered sheep
AFP, Published on 23/11/2023
» WANAKA (NEW ZEALAND) - Classical music, soft mattresses and the gentlest touch of a wool clipper: welcome to the New Zealand farm indulging what may be the world's most pampered sheep.
No surprise in hard-hit Bakhmut as Putin's ceasefire fails
AFP, Published on 06/01/2023
» BAKHMUT (UKRAINE) - Like every other day this week, holdout residents of this all-but-destroyed city on Ukraine's front line flocked to a ground-floor humanitarian aid centre Friday, desperate for food and internet access.
Buried phones, bribes and paranoia: life under Russian occupation
AFP, Published on 07/11/2022
» ZAPORIZHZHIA: One couple buried their phones in the garden to keep them from being seized by the Russian invaders.
Far-right Meloni set to become Italy's first woman PM
AFP, Published on 21/10/2022
» ROME - Far-right leader Giorgia Meloni was set to be named Italian prime minister on Friday after her party's historic election win, becoming the first woman to head a government in Italy.
Pitt says Jolie sought 'harm' by selling vineyard to Russian oligarch
AFP, Published on 08/06/2022
» LOS ANGELES - Brad Pitt has accused his ex-wife Angelina Jolie of seeking to "inflict harm" on him by selling her stake in their French vineyard to a Russian oligarch with "poisonous associations and intentions."
Jury resumes deliberations in Depp vs Heard trial
AFP, Published on 01/06/2022
» FAIRFAX (UNITED STATES) - The jury in the defamation trial between Johnny Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard resumed deliberations Wednesday, working painstakingly through a special verdict form that contains dozens of questions.
Amber Heard says she received death threats during defamation trial
AFP, Published on 27/05/2022
» WASHINGTON: "Aquaman" star Amber Heard said Thursday that she has received thousands of death threats during the "agonizing" defamation trial between her and former husband Johnny Depp.
Mexican teenager's death becomes media, justice 'spectacle'
AFP, Published on 13/05/2022
» MEXICO CITY - The still-unsolved death of teenager Debanhi Escobar has brought into sharp focus not just the dangers facing women in Mexico but also the questionable judicial and media handling of the high-profile case.