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Miss Mexico wins Miss Universe contest after host insult drama
AFP, Published on 22/11/2025
» NONTHABURI (THAILAND) - Miss Mexico was crowned Miss Universe in Thailand on Friday, strutting to victory after several dramatic missteps before the final round, including staging a walkout when an organiser of the beauty pageant chastised her.
Unspoilt corner of Portugal fears arrival of high-end tourism
AFP, Published on 22/10/2025
» COMPORTA — Above the pine forests and dunes that stretch along the nearly deserted beaches of southwestern Portugal, cranes rise from building sites soon to be luxury hotels -- a sign of the region's contentious transformation into a playground for the wealthy.
France's Sarkozy ordered to serve prison time in historic first
AFP, Published on 25/09/2025
» PARIS — Former president Nicolas Sarkozy was on Thursday set to become France's first postwar leader to go to prison after a court jailed him for five years over a scheme for the late Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi to fund his victorious 2007 presidential run.
All eyes turn to conclave after Pope Francis's funeral
News, AFP, Published on 27/04/2025
» VATICAN CITY - With Pope Francis laid to rest, all eyes turn now to the conclave, the secretive meeting of cardinals set to convene within days to elect a new head of the Catholic Church.
15 potential successors to Pope Francis
AFP, Published on 21/04/2025
» VATICAN CITY - The April 21 death of Pope Francis triggered a period of mourning in the Catholic Church, but also kick-started the race for his successor.
The miracle babies who survived a concentration camp
AFP, Published on 15/04/2025
» PARIS - They were born in a hell on Earth and were never supposed to survive. But by some miracle a handful of babies born in the Ravensbruck concentration camp in northern Germany made it out alive.
French actor Depardieu goes on trial on sexual assault charges
AFP, Published on 24/03/2025
» PARIS - French actor Gerard Depardieu, who has faced a string of assault and rape allegations, goes on trial in Paris on Monday accused of sexually abusing two women during a film shoot in 2021.
Does 'vibe coding' make everyone a programmer?
AFP, Published on 24/03/2025
» NEW YORK - Can a complete tech novice create a website using everyday language on ChatGPT?
US unable to stand up to Trump, says French senator after viral ‘Nero’ speech
AFP, Published on 11/03/2025
» PARIS - US politicians are unable to stand up to Donald Trump, a French lawmaker said, after the viral success of a speech where he damned the US president as presiding over “Nero’s court” and described his advisor, Elon Musk, as a “buffoon on ketamine”.
Pope not out of danger, doctors say, amid questions over future
AFP, Published on 22/02/2025
» VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis, in hospital with pneumonia, is not out of danger and will have to stay at least another week, his doctors said Friday amid questions over the 88-year-old's future as head of the Catholic Church.