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Josephine Baker to be first Black woman in France's Pantheon
AFP, Published on 22/08/2021
» PARIS - Josephine Baker, the famed French-American dancer, singer and actress who fought in the French resistance during WWII and later battled racism, will become the first Black woman to enter France's Pantheon mausoleum.
Musical legend Josephine Baker to enter France's Pantheon
AFP, Published on 22/08/2021
» PARIS - The remains of Josephine Baker, a famed French-American dancer, singer and actress who also fought in the French resistance during WWII, will be moved to the Pantheon mausoleum in November, an aide to President Emmanuel Macron said Sunday.
Twitter allows some users to flag 'misleading' content
AFP, Published on 18/08/2021
» SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter on Tuesday announced a new feature to allow users to flag content that could contain misinformation, a scourge that has only grown during the pandemic.
'The Serpent' still haunting lives four decades on
AFP, Published on 21/06/2021
» BANGKOK: Nearly half a century after he sowed fear along the 1970s "hippie trail", French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, the "Serpent" of the hit TV drama series, still haunts the lives of those who crossed his path.
Brazil's MV Bill raps politics, pandemic in new album
AFP, Published on 19/05/2021
» RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazilian rapper MV Bill's new album is both fresh and old-school, full of rhymes on 2021 politics and the pandemic, but also the same problems he has been chronicling in the favelas for 33 years.
Scar tissue: Vietnamese women find healing with tattoos
AFP, Published on 09/04/2021
» HANOI: In her tiny Hanoi apartment, tattoo artist Ngoc inks middle-aged women whose lives have been upended by divorce or illness, each of them searching for healing through an art form that is still largely taboo in Vietnam.
Bangkok coffin-maker kickflips his caskets into skateboards
AFP, Published on 24/03/2021
» From a final resting place for the dead to a gnarly way to land a trick; a coffin-maker is affixing Buddhist emblems to the dismantled walls of his caskets, and transforming them into skateboards.
Hollywood, history combine in Churchill art auction
AFP, Published on 28/02/2021
» RABAT: Hollywood's Angelina Jolie and Britain's iconic wartime prime minister Sir Winston Churchill, a keen artist who took inspiration from the Moroccan city of Marrakesh, are combining for a March 1 date at Christie's auction house in London.
Mogul vs Mogul: Australia's tech law pits Murdoch against Zuckerberg
AFP, Published on 22/02/2021
» SYDNEY: Australia's push to regulate tech giants has become a power struggle between two of the world's most powerful men, with Rupert Murdoch and Mark Zuckerberg locked in a generational battle for media dominance.
Party over at Clubhouse, the app that had China talking
AFP, Published on 09/02/2021
» BEIJING - The repression of Muslim Uighurs, the Tiananmen Square crackdown, and S&M hook-ups -- nothing was off-limits in the rambunctious, unfiltered chatrooms of Clubhouse, before China's censors silenced the conversation.