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Video game play gets frisky at CES gadget gala
AFP, Published on 10/01/2025
» LAS VEGAS - Video game play met romantic intimacy in a corner of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) on Thursday -- but it hasn't always been smooth sailing for sex toys at the Las Vegas gadget extravaganza.
China using Myanmar conflict to destroy scam networks
By Philip Heijmans and Josh Xiao, Bloomberg News, Published on 21/12/2023
» A video began circulating on Myanmar social media circles last month. It depicted a man, who called himself Bi Huijun, issuing a stark warning to his family from what looked like a padded cell.
Shane MacGowan: laureate of lowlife folk-punk
AFP, Published on 30/11/2023
» DUBLIN - Shane MacGowan, the singer-songwriter who fronted Celtic folk-punk band The Pogues, was a booze-fuelled bard who performed defiant ballads of the downtrodden and doomed.
From East to West to southern trap, 50 years of hip-hop
AFP, Published on 12/08/2023
» NEW YORK - Five decades after a Bronx block party ushered in hip-hop's 'Big Bang' moment, the culture-shifting genre is celebrating its 50th birthday Friday.
Russian Orthodox Church says ready for new pope meeting
AFP, Published on 14/09/2022
» NUR-SULTAN, Kazakhstan: The Russian Orthodox Church said Wednesday it was ready for a new meeting between Patriarch Kirill and Pope Francis after weeks of diplomatic tensions sparked by the Ukraine war.
Uncertain future for the booksellers of Kabul
AFP, Published on 28/10/2021
» KABUL - The problem with this publication, a bookseller in the Afghan capital Kabul explains, is not so much that it's by Michelle Obama, but that she's not wearing a hijab in the cover photo.
Pope sorry for slapping devotee
AFP, Published on 01/01/2020
» VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis apologised Wednesday for slapping a woman who had grabbed him as he greeted a crowd of devotees, shortly before he delivered a speech denouncing "every form of violence against women."
Pope says sorry for slapping devotee
AFP, Published on 01/01/2020
» VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis apologised Wednesday for his widely-viewed slap of a woman who had grabbed his hand as he greeted Catholic faithful on New Year's Eve.
Five cops shot in western US, 1 fatally
Associated Press, Published on 01/01/2018
» DENVER: A man fired more than 100 rounds at sheriff's deputies in Colorado early Sunday, killing one and injuring four others, before being fatally shot himself in what authorities called an ambush. Two civilians were also injured.