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India announces state funeral for ex-PM Manmohan Singh
AFP, Published on 27/12/2024
» NEW DELHI - India on Friday announced seven days of state mourning after the death of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, one of the architects of the country's economic liberalisation in the early 1990s.
Manmohan Singh: technocrat who became India's accidental PM
AFP, Published on 27/12/2024
» NEW DELHI - Manmohan Singh's father may have believed his bookworm son would one day lead India, but the understated technocrat with the trademark blue turban, who died Thursday at the age of 92, never dreamed it would actually happen.
India's former PM Manmohan Singh dies aged 92
AFP, Published on 27/12/2024
» NEW DELHI - Manmohan Singh, the former Indian prime minister whose economic reforms made his country a global powerhouse, has died at the age of 92, current leader Narendra Modi said.
Bride, groom, spy: India's wedding detectives
AFP, Published on 20/12/2024
» NEW DELHI - From an anonymous office in a New Delhi mall, matrimonial detective Bhavna Paliwal runs the rule over prospective husbands and wives -- a booming industry in India, where younger generations are increasingly choosing love matches over arranged marriage.
True blue tradition: how Japan's coveted jeans are made
AFP, Published on 18/12/2024
» KOJIMA-AJINO (JAPAN) - Call it an antidote to fast fashion: Japanese jeans hand-dyed with natural indigo and weaved on a clackety vintage loom, then sold at a premium to global denim connoisseurs.
Black truffle production booms in Spain
AFP, Published on 15/12/2023
» SARRIóN (SPAIN) - When Jose Soriano was a child, the hills near the village of Sarrion in Spain's remote and sparsely populated eastern province of Teruel were mostly uncultivated, covered in brush and rocks.
Chinese mourners use AI to digitally resurrect the dead
AFP, Published on 14/12/2023
» TAIZHOU (CHINA) - At a quiet cemetery in eastern China, bereaved father Seakoo Wu pulls out his phone, places it on a gravestone and plays a recording of his son.
Three killed in Las Vegas university shooting
AFP, Published on 07/12/2023
» LAS VEGAS - Three people were killed and another critically injured in a shooting at a Las Vegas university on Wednesday, police said, with the suspect also dead.
A rush for firearms in wartime Israel
AFP, Published on 23/11/2023
» JERUSALEM - Declaring her preference for "something light and comfortable", an Israeli mother-of-four browsed through a collection of pistols in a Jerusalem gun store, which appeared to be experiencing a business boom in wartime.
Viva Las Vegas or risk of flop for F1's newest race?
AFP, Published on 17/11/2023
» LAS VEGAS - Formula One's push to conquer America enters a new phase this weekend as the sport brings its high-octane show to the neon lights of the Las Vegas strip.