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Gen Z shift, high costs force UK nightclubs to reinvent
AFP, Published on 05/08/2025
» LONDON — Is the party over? Nightclubs in the United Kingdom (UK) are famed around the world, but the coronavirus disease (Covid) and inflation have hit the sector hard, forcing businesses to reinvent themselves to attract new generations to the dance floor.
‘I thought I was going to die,’ Kardashian tells Paris robbery trial
AFP, Published on 13/05/2025
» PARIS - American celebrity Kim Kardashian told a Paris court on Tuesday she feared she was going to be killed by masked men who robbed her at gunpoint of millions of dollars' worth worth of jewellery during the French capital’s fashion week.
Disco, dogs help Hong Kong's elderly out of post-Covid isolation
AFP, Published on 22/11/2023
» HONG KONG - Eyes closed, hips swaying, retiree Polly Chan danced like no one was watching at a community centre in Hong Kong, where experts warn of a loneliness epidemic among the ballooning elderly population.
'It's killing us': Delhi's smog-choked roads take their toll
AFP, Published on 19/11/2021
» NEW DELHI - Stinging eyes, an unrelenting cough and chronic lung disease have taken their toll on Bhajan Lal, an auto rickshaw driver navigating the Indian capital's chaotic roads and poisonous air.
How scorpion tails do the bend and twist
Sabrina Imbler of the New York Times, Published on 01/09/2021
» NEW YORK: The segments of a scorpion’s tail can move in many ways: bending up and down, twisting left and right, and bending and twisting simultaneously. A new three-dimensional reconstruction of this aggressive body part reveals a special joint that is unique to the animal kingdom and that allows the tail’s bending and twisting.
Covid response runs underground in junta-ruled Myanmar
Reuters, Published on 18/07/2021
» For a week, 21-year-old student Phoe Thar has been out by dawn to gather oxygen cylinders from the homes of coronavirus sufferers in Myanmar's second city of Mandalay.
Partygoers celebrate as Iceland's nightclubs reopen
AFP, Published on 26/05/2020
» REYKJAVIK: Iceland's dancefloors once again pulsed to the beat as the country's nightclubs reopened on Monday after a nine-week closure due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Social dis-dance: clubbing goes online as virus shuts nightspots
AFP, Published on 02/04/2020
» SINGAPORE - Strobe lights flash across a near-empty dance floor, as a DJ live-streams thumping electronic music from a Singapore nightclub to revellers confined to their homes due to the coronavirus pandemic.
In South Africa, newly approved TB regimen drastically cuts treatment time
AFP, Published on 15/08/2019
» JOHANNESBURG - Four years ago, South African fashion designer Innocent Molefe, 38, was diagnosed with tuberculosis. A year ago, it developed into multi-drug resistant strain requiring painful injections and heaps of pills.
Dance music superstar Avicii dead at 28
AFP, Published on 21/04/2018
» NEW YORK - Avicii, one of the world's most successful DJs who helped usher in the global boom in electronic music but struggled to cope in the hard-partying lifestyle, died Friday in Oman, his representative said. He was 28.