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Sixties screen siren Claudia Cardinale dies aged 87
AFP, Published on 24/09/2025
» PARIS - Sixties screen siren Claudia Cardinale, who died on Tuesday aged 87, entranced audiences across the globe with the sultry gaze that made her the muse of Luchino Visconti and Federico Fellini.
Ex-husband jailed 20 years in French mass rape trial
AFP, Published on 19/12/2024
» AVIGNON, France - A court on Thursday sentenced a French man to the maximum term of 20 years in jail for committing and orchestrating the mass rapes of his now former wife, Gisele Pelicot, with dozens of strangers he recruited online.
Julian Sands: 'A Room with a View' star who forged eclectic career
AFP, Published on 28/06/2023
» LONDON - Julian Sands, whose body was identified Tuesday after he disappeared in January while hiking in California, was a British actor who shot to fame as the romantic hero in 1980s period drama "A Room with a View".
Rushdie says 'very difficult' to write after stabbing
AFP, Published on 07/02/2023
» NEW YORK - British author Salman Rushdie said he finds it "very difficult" to write after being stabbed last year, in an interview published Monday ahead of the release of his new novel "Victory City."
Suu Kyi to hear final rulings soon
AFP, Published on 24/12/2022
» A junta court in Myanmar could hand down the final rulings in the 18-month trial of Aung San Suu Kyi next week, closing the latest chapter in the military’s decades-long battle with the democracy figurehead.
Ex-French skater Abitbol 'feels punished' for revealing abuse
AFP, Published on 12/10/2022
» PARIS: Former figure skating star Sarah Abitbol lifted the lid on sexual abuse in sport in France by revealing she was raped by her former coach as a teenager -- but says she feels she was "punished" as a result.
London's V&A reopens with Alice in Wonderland exhibition
AFP, Published on 20/05/2021
» LONDON - After a year of the coronavirus pandemic's mind-bending assault on normal life, London's Victoria & Albert Museum reopens this week, taking visitors down another rabbit hole.
Myanmar anti-coup protests renewed after deadliest day
AFP, Published on 04/03/2021
» YANGON: Defiant anti-coup protesters returned to cities and towns across Myanmar on Thursday after dozens of people were killed in the deadliest day of the junta's crackdown, with global powers condemning the "brutal violence".
Myanmar generals in firm control after coup
AFP, Published on 02/02/2021
» YANGON: Myanmar’s generals appeared in firm control Tuesday a day after a surgical coup that saw democracy heroine Aung San Suu Kyi detained, as they offered silence to a barrage of global condemnation.
In new German save-the-forest fight, migrant captain centre stage
AFP, Published on 20/10/2020
» DANNENROD (ALLEMAGNE) - Eighteen months ago, German ship captain Carola Rackete was hailed a hero by refugee campaigners after she defied the authorities by steering a migrant rescue vessel into the port of Lampedusa.