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'Severance' leads Emmy nominations with 27
AFP, Published on 16/07/2025
» LOS ANGELES (UNITED STATES) - Apple TV+'s dark sci-fi office drama "Severance" on Tuesday led the contenders for the Emmy Awards, television's version of the Oscars, with a whopping 27 nominations.
What is the pink stuff coating fire-ravaged Los Angeles?
AFP, Published on 15/01/2025
» LOS ANGELES — Above the roaring fires devastating parts of Los Angeles is an incongruous sight: air tankers dropping gallons of bright red and Barbie-pink slurry over forest, homes, cars, and anything else that might lie in the blazes' path.
Pound slides amid UK political drama, stocks soar
AFP, Published on 14/10/2022
» LONDON: The pound fell Friday as under-fire British Prime Minister Liz Truss sacked her finance minister and made a dramatic policy U-turn, while equities rallied for a second day despite surging US inflation.
OJ Simpson a free man after parole ends: police
AFP, Published on 15/12/2021
» LOS ANGELES - OJ Simpson, the professional football player-turned-movie-star whose double murder trial gripped and divided the United States, is a free man after finishing his parole, police said Tuesday.
Britney Spears says she 'cried for weeks' over documentary
AFP, Published on 31/03/2021
» PARIS - Britney Spears said she was "embarrassed" and "cried for two weeks" over her portrayal in a recent documentary about her career and mental health problems.
Pop phenom, tabloid target: the fight to #FreeBritney
AFP, Published on 07/02/2021
» NEW YORK: The legal agreement barring Britney Spears from managing her own life and finances is now older than the pop star was when the public met her as an effervescent 12-year-old on the Disney Channel -- and controversy over who steers her life is starting to boil.
Number of TV series in US declined in 2020 for first time
AFP, Published on 30/01/2021
» NEW YORK: The number of television series that broadcast or streamed new episodes in the United States in 2020 was down on the previous year for the first time since the tally began, analysts said Friday.
Woman in landmark US abortion case was paid for later activism: documentary
AFP, Published on 21/05/2020
» WASHINGTON - The woman at the center of the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in the United States, Roe v Wade, says she was later paid by anti-abortion groups to denounce the landmark ruling, according to a documentary set for release on Friday.
Equities in freefall after Wall St, Europe implode on virus fears
AFP, Published on 13/03/2020
» HONG KONG: Asian equities went into freefall on Friday, extending a global rout that saw markets experience their worst day in decades as fears of a worldwide recession caused by the coronavirus pandemic wiped trillions off valuations.
Asian stocks nosedive, extending global rout on recession fears
AFP, Published on 13/03/2020
» TOKYO - Asian markets opened in freefall on Friday, extending a global rout that saw bourses experience their worst day in decades on fears of a recession caused by the coronavirus pandemic.