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Actor Jonathan Bailey named 'sexiest man alive' by People magazine

The 37-year-old Bailey said it was a "huge honor" to receive the pop culture accolade previously awarded to stars including Chris Hemsworth and George Clooney.

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Celebrated soul musician D'Angelo dead at 51

The R&B icon and neo-soul pioneer melded genres and opened doors as he stretched the boundaries of Black pop traditions. ...

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Sean 'Diddy' Combs sentenced to more than 4 years in prison over prostitution conviction

Combs, 55, was stoic as US District Judge Arun Subramanian announced the 50-month sentence at the end of a day-long hearing in Manhattan federal court. ...

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Holistic teacher Reza Gunawan passes away at age 46

Reza Gunawan, an influential holistic teacher, passed away after battling with a stroke.

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BBC pays 1.4 million pounds to charity over controversial Diana interview

The BBC said on Friday it had donated sales proceeds derived from a 1995 interview with Princess Diana to charity after it was found she was tricked into the bombshell expose.

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‘Memories of war’ returned, witness of 1972 Olympics attack recounts

Survivor of a terror attack at the Olympic Village in Munich in September 1972 reminsices the tragedy.

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Actress Jane Fonda says she has cancer

US actress and activist Jane Fonda announced Friday that she has cancer, and has begun chemotherapy in her battle against the disease.

3 years ago
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Tributes paid to princess Diana, 25 years after her death

Flowers and other tributes were laid at princess Diana's former London home and above the Paris road tunnel where she lost her life, to mark the 25th anniversary of her death.

3 years ago
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Kobe Bryant widow awarded US$16 million over crash-site photos

The widow of the late-basketball-star Kobe Bryant was awarded US$16 million by a jury on Wednesday over the sharing of photos of human remains at the helicopter crash site where her husband, their 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others were killed in 2020, according to multiple media reports.

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Fashion designer Hanae Mori dies aged 96: Japanese media

Japanese fashion designer Hanae Mori, who cracked the elite world of Parisian haute couture, has died at her home in Tokyo aged 96, Japanese media reported on Thursday.

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Iran denies link with Rushdie's attacker, blames writer

Iran denied any link with the attacker of British author Salman Rushdie but blamed the writer himself for "insulting" Islam in the novel The Satanic Verses.

3 years ago
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Indian, Pakistani siblings reunite 75 years after Partition

This year marks the 75th anniversary of Partition, during which sectarian bloodshed killed possibly more than one million people, families like Sika's were cleaved apart and two independent nations -- Pakistan and India -- were created.

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Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake dies at 84

Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake, whose global career spanned more than half a century, has died aged 84.

3 years ago
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'Grease' star Olivia Newton-John dies aged 73

Newton-John "passed away peacefully at her ranch in Southern California this morning, surrounded by family and friends," said a statement from her husband John Easterling posted on her official social media accounts.

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As online hate speech hits Africa, social media firms told to act

Social media used to be a source of light entertainment for Nora, a 47-year-old Zimbabwean domestic worker living in South Africa. But lately, it has become a source of fear.

3 years ago
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Beirut blast victim's parents wage lonely battle for justice

Paul and Tracy Naggear have lived in grief since the massive explosion that tore through the Lebanese capital in 2020 killed their three-year-old daughter, and their anger boils over the stalled investigation.

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US couple arrested decades after assuming false identities

A couple living in the United States for decades under false names stolen from dead babies have been charged with identity theft and conspiring against the government, in a case tinged with suspicion of espionage.

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James Lovelock, famed UK scientist behind Gaia theory

The independent British scientist James Lovelock, who has died on his 103rd birthday, was hugely influential for his Gaia theory that Earth is a single self-regulating system -- and later, his dire warnings about climate change.  

3 years ago
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Uprooted again, Nigerians who fled Boko Haram face new dangers

At least 100,000 displaced people around Maiduguri face evictions, according to the U.N. humanitarian office, OCHA, but aid groups say most families are unwilling to return to their ancestral lands, especially in northern parts of Borno, which they deem unsafe.

3 years ago
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'My dream came true': Indian woman to revisit Pakistan home after 75 years

When 92-year old Indian national Reena Varma visits her childhood home in Pakistan this week for the first time in 75 years, she will be the only one of her family to make it back home since they left shortly before partition divided the two nations.

3 years ago
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J Lo and Ben Affleck tie the knot in Vegas

The couple tied the knot Saturday, according to a marriage license they filed in Clark County, Nevada, that was seen by AFP.

3 years ago
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The despair of Indonesia's COVID-19 orphans

For children of parents who died from the virus, sorrow and anger remain.

3 years ago
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US actress Constance Wu says attempted suicide after Twitter storm

US actress Constance Wu made a suicide attempt three years ago, bruised by a bitter social media backlash, the Crazy Rich Asians star said.

3 years ago
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Mexican sex workers fight injustice with the pen

Paloma Paz began writing articles after seeing fellow sex workers thrown onto the street when the hotels where they lived and worked closed due to the pandemic.

3 years ago
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Donald Trump's first wife Ivana dies aged 73

Ivana Trump "passed away at her home in New York City," Donald Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

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Finding fame... and family? AleXa's Korean-American K-pop dream

Korean-American K-pop star AleXa has wanted to be on stage since she was a kid, but her search for fame in South Korea was also fuelled by another reason -- to help her mother find her birth family.

3 years ago
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'Everywhere they dig': looters hunt Albanian antiques

Illicit treasure hunters operate with near impunity in the country, stirring outrage among archaeologists over the theft of priceless national heritage that feeds a global black market.    

3 years ago
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Bhutan's trailblazing beauty queen speaks up for LGBTQ community

The remote country is famed for its philosophy of "Gross National Happiness", in which it prioritises citizens' well-being on par with economic growth. 

3 years ago
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Love letters and tax returns: Bolivia's sidewalk scribes prefer typewriters

Dressed in a suit, a feather in his hat, Rogelio Condori sits bent over a small table on a sidewalk in La Paz, tapping on a typewriter with his index fingers.

3 years ago
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South Korean auteur behind 'Oldboy' returns with 'pure' love story

Filmmaker Park Chan-wook, known for his ultra-violent thrillers that helped catapult South Korean cinema onto the global stage, is back with a different work -- a love story.

3 years ago
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'Faceless killer': Syria landmines keep sowing death

Family members from three generations were huddled on the back of a pickup truck for what started as a joyful ride through the Syrian countryside for Abdulaziz al-Oqab and his relatives.

3 years ago
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After war, Syrians in Jordan find joy and jobs in dance

Singing joyfully to beating drums, Syrian refugees who fled brutal civil war perform traditional "Arada" dances in neighboring Jordan, honoring their home culture and earning extra income.

3 years ago
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Musk says doing 'best' to boost birth rates

Elon Musk said he was helping combat falling birth rates after it was reported that he had twins last year with an executive at one of his companies.

3 years ago

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