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Sheeran to crown queen's four-day jubilee party
AFP, Published on 05/06/2022
» LONDON: British pop superstar Ed Sheeran was on Sunday set to bring the curtain down on four days of momentous nationwide celebrations to honour Queen Elizabeth II's historic Platinum Jubilee.
'Dead body carrier': Covid surge overwhelms Myanmar burial volunteers
AFP, Published on 19/07/2021
» YANGON: With hospitals in junta-run Myanmar empty of pro-democracy medical staff and coronavirus cases surging nationwide, volunteers are going house-to-house to collect the fast-rising number of victims dying in their homes.
K-Pop and Kimchi: Tokyo's 'Little Seoul' shrugs off spat
AFP, Published on 03/09/2019
» TOKYO: In the "little Seoul" area of Tokyo, Japanese shoppers flock to get their fix of K-pop and Korean face cream, seemingly shrugging off a deep freeze in Japan-South Korean ties.
Birds just wanna have fun: like humans, cockatoos love to dance
AFP, Published on 09/07/2019
» WASHINGTON - Snowball, a sulphur-crested cockatoo, shot to YouTube stardom a decade ago for his uncanny ability to rock out to the Backstreet Boys.
Blue sky at night lights up social media in New York
AFP, Published on 28/12/2018
» NEW YORK - An alien invasion? The Rapture? The sky flashed an eerie blue over New York City on Thursday night and social media users feared the worst.
Neymar and Mbappe satins are Paris fashion must-haves
AFP, Published on 28/09/2018
» PARIS - Football's biggest stars burst onto the Paris fashion runway Thursday with Neymar, Kylian Mbappe and Edinson Cavani popping up on T-shirts and satin bomber jackets by Indian designer Manish Arora.
After pro-Trump bravado, Kanye turns inward on album
AFP, Published on 01/06/2018
» NEW YORK - Kanye West succeeded in rocketing back into the headlines through his stubbornly contrarian lovefest with Donald Trump. But on a new album he offers a reminder of what made him a rap superstar -- introspection.
Whitney Houston sexually abused as child says Cannes documentary
AFP, Published on 17/05/2018
» CANNES (FRANCE) - An explosive new documentary about the tragic life of Whitney Houston claims the superstar was sexually abused as a child by her cousin, soul singer Dee Dee Warwick.
Devotees reenact crucifixions in Philippines
Associated Press, Published on 30/03/2018
» SAN PEDRO CUTUD, Philippines: Filipino Roman Catholic devotees, including a woman, were nailed to wooden crosses in a gory Good Friday reenactment of Jesus Christ's sufferings that was watched by thousands of spectators but frowned upon by church leaders.