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Flat-out: Hirscher boosts skiing in mountainless N...
The mercury hits six degrees below freezing and the snow crunches underfoot as the ski-school kids carve down the piste towards th...
Star dog Messi will interview stars on Cannes red...
Messi, star of Oscar-winning movie "Anatomy of a Fall", which won the top prize at Cannes last year, will return to the festival n...
Courtnae Paul, the S.African chasing Olympic break...
Moonwalking into the centre of a colourful gladiator-like stage, South African breakdancer Courtnae Paul warms up a Johannesburg c...
Hummingbirds and hooves take over the red carpet a...
From Bad Bunny's Tudor-inspired hat and shoes resembling cloven hooves to the hummingbird perched delicately on Zendaya's neck, th...
Pulitzer Prizes honor Gaza war coverage
The war in Gaza featured prominently in Monday's Pulitzer Prizes, which included a special citation for journalists covering the I...
Rap beef between Drake and Kendrick Lamar explodes
A long-simmering feud between rap titans Drake and Kendrick Lamar exploded into allegations of pedophilia, abuse and infidelity ov...
Artist graffitis famous vagina painting by French...
Two women Monday sprayed the words "MeToo" on a 19th-century painting of a woman's vagina by French artist Gustave Courbet in a st...
Showbiz elite descend on Manhattan for Met Gala
The entertainment world hits the red carpet Monday for the annual Met Gala, New York's party of the year that hosts a parade of su...
Brian May, Jean-Michel Jarre team up for free Slov...
Electronic music pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre and Queen guitarist and astrophysicist Brian May will perform a free concert this weeke...
Ode to joy: How Austria shaped Beethoven's Ninth
The night Ludwig van Beethoven's monumental Ninth Symphony rang out in a Vienna concert hall for the first time almost exactly two...
Backstage artisans keep Moulin Rouge kicking
Even with the famous sails of its windmill gone, the Moulin Rouge never lets up: twice a night, 365 nights a year, in a whirlwind...
Far-right parties wage disinfo war ahead of EU vot...
Far-right populist parties are way ahead of their traditional rivals in the race for voter attention on social media, where disinf...
'Everybody is vulnerable': Fake US school audio st...
A fabricated audio clip of a US high school principal prompted a torrent of outrage, leaving him battling allegations of racism an...
Madonna wows Rio with 'Celebration Tour' finale
Pop idol Madonna gave it all in Rio de Janeiro as she looked back on her four-decade career in a historic show before throngs of j...
Madonna kicks off huge show before giddy fans in R...
Dressed all in black, pop idol Madonna broke into her hit "Nothing Really Matters" Saturday night before throngs of joyful fans ja...
Giddy Rio braces for huge Madonna show on Copacaba...
Rio de Janeiro was brimming with excitement Saturday ahead of pop queen Madonna's highly anticipated free concert on famed Copaca...
A giddy Rio braces for a huge Madonna show on Copa...
All is finally in readiness in a Rio de Janeiro brimming with nerves and excitement over Saturday night's highly anticipated free...
Indian, Hong Kong satirists win press cartoon awar...
Indian cartoonist Rachita Taneja and Hong Kong's Zunzi were awarded the biennial Kofi Annan Courage in Cartooning Award on Friday,...
'Empty body' art in tunnels dug by Austria concent...
An exhibition of empty dresses and blood red ropes hanging inside an underground tunnel dug by concentration camp inmates in Austr...
Shares in Spain's beauty group Puig rise on market...
Shares in Spanish fashion and beauty group Puig, owner of the iconic Nina Ricci, Paco Rabanne and Jean-Paul Gaultier labels, rose...
States doing less to support press freedom: watchd...
Media watchdog group Reporters Without Borders warned of declining government support for press freedom as it unveiled its annual...
Cockfights still rule the roost in India's forest...
The swing of a talon and a flurry of feathers leaves a rooster motionless, a cockfight bout viewed as cruel by many but which bind...
US election disinformation targets non-citizen vot...
Illegal immigration on the US southern border is a top talking point among Republican politicians, but some are taking it a step f...
UNESCO awards press prize to Palestinian journalis...
UNESCO on Thursday awarded its world press freedom prize to all Palestinian journalists covering the war in Gaza, where Israel has...
TikTok reaches music licensing deal with Universal...
TikTok and Universal announced a new licensing agreement Thursday, ending a months-long dispute that saw popular music expunged fr...
Meryl Streep to receive honorary Palme d'Or at Can...
Meryl Streep will receive an honorary Palme d'Or at the opening ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival on May 14, organisers said Th...
Wife of ex-French president Sarkozy suspect in wit...
Singer and model Carla Bruni was on Thursday questioned as a suspect in a witness tampering case against her husband, former Frenc...
European court upholds Italy's claim to Greek bron...
Italy is allowed to confiscate an ancient Greek bronze fished from the Adriatic in the 1960s and now in the Getty Museum in Los An...
French parliament to investigate sexual abuse in c...
The French parliament on Thursday agreed to create a commission of inquiry to investigate sexual and gender-based violence in cine...
Daniel Radcliffe 'really sad' over Rowling's trans...
Daniel Radcliffe has said he is saddened by author J.K. Rowling's stance on transgender rights, telling an interviewer he has not...
French actress details 'rape' accusations against...
French actress Isild Le Besco in a book published on Wednesday accused filmmaker Benoit Jacquot of raping her as a teenager but sa...
Hollywood stunt performers rev up 'Fall Guy' premi...
Fresh from the high-profile success of "Barbie," Ryan Gosling used the Los Angeles premiere of his next movie "The Fall Guy" to ce...