Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse poses for a photo at the state's honorary residence for deserving artists, Grotten in Oslo on December 8, 2015.

Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse wins Nobel literature prize

Sometimes compared to Samuel Beckett, another Nobel-winning playwright, Fosse's work is minimalistic, relying on simple language which delivers its message through rhythm, melody and silence.

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Cycling in Paris’ road tunnel

The transformation of Paris into one of the world's biggest bicycle-friendly cities is relatively fast. ...

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Chow Yun-fat laments Chinese censorship at BIFF

Speaking at South Korea's Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), Chow told reporters that Hong Kong's cinema industry had to learn to play by a new set of rules since the city returned to China's control in 1997. ...

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Abnon Teater performers (standing from left) Luthfi Ardiansyah, Fitria Aprilia, Maudy Koesnaedi, Bakti Budaya Djarum Foundation representative Billy Gamaliel, Mia Ismi and Vidan Mathensz pose with other cast members at Galeri Indonesia Kaya after a press conference in Jakarta on Sept. 21, 2023. The crew will play 'Janji Soekma: Langgam Gambang Kehidupan' (Soekma’s Promise: The Rhythm of Life) at Gedung Kesenian Jakarta on Oct. 6-8, 2023.

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Fulfilling a promise: Teater Abnon revives Betawi’s ‘gambang kromong’ with ‘Janji Soekma’

Teater Abnon features Betawi traditional gambang kromong music in their upcoming production and celebrates its 14th anniversary.

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Fashion designer Denny Wirawan (center, dressed in black) poses with the models in front of Yasa Amrta traditional house after the Sandyakala Smara fashion show highlighting the rare Kudus batik in Kudus, Central Java, on Sept. 6, 2023.

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‘Sandyakala Smara’: Reviving the timeless elegance of Kudus batik

Denny Wirawan, in collaboration with the Bakti Budaya Djarum Foundation, presented a fashion show in Kudus, Central Java, featuring the forgotten splendor of Kudus batik.

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Too late: Herutjahio (standing) and Nurkasih, children of an Indonesian exile Sardjio Mintardjo, visit their father’s grave in Leiden, the Netherlands. Mintardjo passed away before filming for the documentary 'Eksil’ (The Exile) started.

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No way home: Documentary ‘Eksil’ sheds light on those exiled in 1965

These students eventually became stateless, wandering around aimlessly and seeking other countries for better asylum.

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A Gundam statue (left) is placed as an official wearing a facemask looks out as Tokyo 2020 organizing staff climb a wall during a lead climbing test in Tokyo on March 6, 2020.

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Japan startup develops 'Gundam'-like robot with $3 million price tag

Called ARCHAX after the avian dinosaur archaeopteryx, the robot has cockpit monitors that receive images from cameras hooked up to the exterior so that the pilot can manoeuvre the arms and hands with joysticks from inside its torso.

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Yusma, 65, sits idle on Sept. 26, 2023 as she waits for customers to visit her store in Tanah Abang Market, Central Jakarta.

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Fair play: Tanah Abang traders welcome government's social commerce ban

Traders at Jakarta's textile and garment hub are collectively breathing a sigh of relief after the government's social commerce ban on TikTok, but it may not be smooth sailing from here on out for sales at their physical stores.

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How to tame the traffic: A guide for cities

While many policymakers acknowledge that traffic is a problem, they tend to focus on widening roads or constructing new highways, which, as has been evident for years, are not effective solutions.

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A battery pack for the Ford Mustang Mach-E is displayed during a press conference in Romulus, Michigan, US, on February 13, 2023.

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Start-up Atlas raises $27 mln for new nickel technology for EV batteries

US-based Atlas said it has come up with a way to treat a type of nickel ore usually used as an ingredient in stainless steel into a form that can be used for EV batteries with low emissions and no waste.

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No land for Mentawai women (part 1)

Even though Mentawai women earn their living by cultivating land, they have no right to own it. This is the first of a two-part story, with part 2 to be published on Oct. 7.

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Some of the 1232 dipole magnets that bend the path of accelerated protons are pictured in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in a tunnel of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), during maintenance works on February 6, 2020 in Echenevex, France, near Geneva.

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Mysterious antimatter observed falling down for first time

The experiment was hailed as "huge milestone", though most physicists anticipated the result, and it had been predicted by Einstein's 1915 theory of relativity.

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ChatGPT can now search for data on the internet

Until now, ChatGPT's responses to user queries were based on a vast database, which did not contain information from after August 2021.

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What would you do to tackle air pollution and road congestion as mayor?

Based on a Statistics Indonesia (BPS) report, there were 26.37 million motorized vehicles in Jakarta in 2022 and motorbikes were the most common vehicle type, with 17.3 million units.

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International Space Station (ISS) crew member and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio reacts while sitting in a chair shortly after landing in the Soyuz MS-23 space capsule in a remote area near Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, September 27, 2023.

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US astronaut Rubio says 'good to be home' after landing in Kazakhstan

Their Soyuz MS-23 capsule undocked from the ISS a minute earlier than scheduled, and took around three and a half hours to make it down to Earth, landing southeast of the city of Zhezqazghan.

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This illustration photo taken in Los Angeles on April 20, 2023, shows Elon Musk's Twitter page on a smartphone. Musk announced on July 1, 2023, that Twitter would temporarily restrict how many tweets users could read per day, in a move meant to tamp down on the use of the site's data by artificial intelligence companies.

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Tech giants roll back misinformation curbs ahead of 2024 polls

Whether it is YouTube scrapping a key misinformation policy or Facebook altering fact checking controls, the social media giants are demonstrating a certain lassitude with being the sheriffs of the internet Wild West.

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This handout picture released by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) on May 8, 2018 shows an artist's impression of the exiled asteroid 2004 EW95, the first carbon-rich asteroid confirmed to exist in the Kuiper Belt and a relic of the primordial Solar System. This curious object likely formed in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and must have been transported billions of kilometres from its origin to its current home in the Kuiper Belt, according to the European Southern Observatory.

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Likely asteroid debris found upon opening of returned NASA probe

Researchers "found black dust and debris on the avionics deck of the Osiris-Rex science canister when the initial lid was removed today," the US space agency said, though without specifying whether they definitely belonged to the asteroid.

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Christine Febriyanti (center), owner of a TikTok sales channel called Monomolly, and her employees offer merchandise through a TikTok livestream at a room in Jakarta on April 4, 2023.

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'Regulate them': hard-up Jakarta traders urge TikTok sales ban

The 35-year-old sells his wares at Tanah Abang, Southeast Asia's largest textile market, where sellers are desperately calling out to passersby.

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A model walks the runway of the Pierre Cardin show during the Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 in Paris on September 25, 2023.

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Paris Fashion Week opens with drama and dashes of humour

Milan Fashion Week was not even over and the fashionistas were already back in Paris on Monday for another 100-plus shows in the hectic womenswear season.

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Fashion as distraction: United States model Bella Hadid (front) and other models present creations during the Moschino catwalk show for the Fall/Winter 2022/2023 collection on Feb. 24, 2022, the third day of Milan Fashion Week in Milan, Italy.

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The 'tyranny of thinness' still dominates fashion

While a handful of plus-size models such as Paloma Elsesser have grabbed media attention in recent years, the figures shows they remain a vanishingly small minority.

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This image obtained 31 October, 2002 shows reddish spots and shallow pits peppering the enigmatic ridged surface of Jupiter's moon Europa in this composite view captured by NASA's Galileo spacecraft during two different orbits around Jupiter. The spots and pits visible in this region of Europa's northern hemisphere are each about 10 kilometers (6 miles) across. The dark spots are called

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Hidden ocean the source of CO2 on Jupiter moon: research

Scientists are confident there is a huge ocean of saltwater kilometres below Europa's ice-covered surface, making the moon a prime candidate for hosting extra-terrestrial life in our Solar System.

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In war-scarred Iraqi city, food business gives women independence

"Taste of Mosul" celebrates local delicacies and was founded in 2017 after the northern Iraqi metropolis was liberated from IS jihadists.

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Director Hayao Miyazaki attended the 'Ponyo on the cliff by the Sea' photocall at the Piazzale del Casino during the 65th Venice Film Festival on August 31, 2008.

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Japan broadcaster to acquire Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli

Hayao Miyazaki's celebrated Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli said Thursday it will be acquired by private broadcaster Nippon TV, citing his old age.

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AI both a risk and opportunity for journalism: study

While 85 percent of respondents had experimented with generative AI such as ChatGPT or Google Bard for tasks including writing summaries and generating headlines, 60 percent said they also had reservations.

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Lies AR (left) performs in Dara Puspita original quartet line-up at the 2022 Synchronize Festival in Jakarta on Oct. 8, 2022.

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Lies AR of trailblazing Dara Puspita passes away

Lies Adji Rachman, or Lies AR, cofounder and guitarist of Indonesia’s legendary all-female rock and roll group Dara Puspita, died at 77 on Sunday night in Mojokerto, East Java.

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Musk considers charging all X users monthly fee

During a talk with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, Musk said that introducing a small monthly payment for X would combat the "armies of bots" on the site.

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In this file photograph taken on December 2, 2010, a Komodo Dragon searches the shore area of Komodo island for prey.

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Scientists warn entire branches of the 'Tree of Life' are going extinct

"The extinction crisis is as bad as the climate change crisis. It is not recognized," said Gerardo Ceballos, professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and co-author of the study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

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The skeleton of an adult dinosaur named Barry, a large specimen of Camptosaurus from the end of the Jurassic period, roughly 150 million years ago, with remarkable preservation and one of the most complete skulls ever documented for the specie, is on display at Drouot auction house in Paris, France, September 12, 2023.

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Dinosaur known as 'Barry' goes on sale in rare Paris auction

The dinosaur, which was first discovered in the 1990s in the U.S. state of Wyoming, was initially restored in 2000 by palaeontologist Barry James, from whom it got its name.

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People walk past the graffiti-covered house of late French singer and songwriter Serge Gainsbourg in central Paris on July 22, 2015.

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Serge Gainsbourg's home finally opens with Charlotte as guide

Thirty-two years after his death, the famous home on Paris' Left Bank gets its long-awaited opening next Wednesday, with visitors welcomed into the dark, bohemian lair by Charlotte's whispered voice in their headphones.

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