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Anna Wintour steps down as US Vogue editor after nearly 40 years
AFP, Published on 27/06/2025
» NEW YORK - Magazine legend Anna Wintour stepped down as editor of US Vogue on Thursday after 37 years during which she was often hailed as the single most influential figure in the fashion world.
Dissident Iranian filmmaker Panahi wins top prize at Cannes
AFP, Published on 25/05/2025
» CANNES (FRANCE) - "It Was Just an Accident" by dissident Iranian director Jafar Panahi won the Palme d'Or for best film at the Cannes Festival on Saturday.
Cannes closes with Iranian, Ukrainian films in spotlight
AFP, Published on 24/05/2025
» CANNES, France - The Cannes Festival draws to a close on Saturday, with a wry Iranian film about political prisoners and a Ukrainian-directed drama about despotism among the frontrunners to pick up the Palme d’Or top prize.
Pakistani drama breaks silence on blasphemy killings
AFP, Published on 20/03/2025
» KARACHI - An axe-wielding mob chases a terrified group; a daring Pakistani television drama has for the first time tackled the deeply sensitive issue of the dozens murdered for alleged blasphemy.
Nine-year-old Thai tattooist makes his mark
AFP, Published on 17/03/2025
» Wielding a cumbersome tattoo gun with his small hands swamped in surgical gloves, nine-year-old Napat Mitmakorn expertly inks the pattern of a fanged serpent on a man's upper thigh.
Vatican thriller 'Conclave' wins top prize in SAG Awards upset
AFP, Published on 24/02/2025
» LOS ANGELES - Vatican thriller "Conclave" won top prize at an unpredictable Screen Actors Guild Awards gala Sunday, throwing a potential late curveball into the Oscars race just a week before the Academy Awards.
Norwegian film 'Dreams', Australia's Rose Byrne win at Berlin
AFP, Published on 23/02/2025
» BERLIN - Norwegian drama "Dreams" won the top prize at the Berlin film festival on Saturday, while Australia's Rose Byrne clinched the Best Performance award, with both movies focused on women's experiences.
DeepSeek puts ‘red scare’ into Silicon Valley
AFP, Published on 30/01/2025
» SAN FRANCISCO - The emergence of the DeepSeek chatbot has sent Silicon Valley into a frenzy, with calls to go faster on advancing artificial intelligence and beat communist-led China before it is too late.
Village People, Carrie Underwood to perform at Trump inauguration
AFP, Published on 14/01/2025
» NEW YORK — The Village People -- the group behind "Y.M.C.A," a staple of Donald Trump's rallies -- said Monday they have accepted an invitation from the United States president-elect to perform at events connected to next week's inauguration.
K-pop seduces youth in communist Cuba, birthplace of salsa
AFP, Published on 07/11/2023
» HAVANA - In Cuba, the home of salsa, young people are being seduced by a music phenomenon from a place that could hardly be more geographically -- or ideologically -- remote.