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The "polka dot queen" channeled hallucinations and battles with mental health into vibrant art featuring her trademark dots, nets and infinity motifs over a career spanning decades and continents.
3 days agoIt was her ability to stay true to her roots, combined with her drive to work hard and her nonpartisanship, that fueled her appeal among conservatives and liberals in a politically polarized America. ...
4 days agoA scholar, activist and mentor to generations of women, Indonesia’s pioneer of gender studies remains an enduring force for women’s rights and social justice. ...
1 week agoNoah took over in 2015 after the exit of Jon Stewart.
3 years agoThe 'Hips Don't Lie' singer, 45, whose full name is Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll, rejected in July a deal to settle the case, which meant she would have to stand trial in a case that could see her sent to prison for eight years.
3 years agoHis record label, Luaka Bop, said he died peacefully around friends and family in Los Angeles.
3 years agoCentral Intelligence Agency (CIA) director William Burns said in the United States spy agency's first-ever podcast on Thursday that his life was nothing like Jason Bourne and James Bond.
3 years agoAmanpour, the chief international anchor of CNN who also has a show on US public broadcaster PBS, said she was ready for the interview Wednesday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly when an aide insisted she cover her hair.
3 years agoRainier Wardhana Hardjanto is the first teenager to launch donations on an NFT platform for disabled communities.
3 years agoEighteen years after Munir's death, his legacy and bravery continue to inspire Indonesia’s new generation of activists.
3 years agoIndonesians in the United Kingdom have their own opinions about the longest-reigning monarch.
3 years agoCelebrities around the world bade a fond farewell on Thursday to perhaps the biggest global star of them all, with heartfelt tributes to the late Queen Elizabeth II.
3 years agoReza Gunawan, an influential holistic teacher, passed away after battling with a stroke.
3 years agoThe 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.
3 years agoSurvivor of a terror attack at the Olympic Village in Munich in September 1972 reminsices the tragedy.
3 years agoUS actress and activist Jane Fonda announced Friday that she has cancer, and has begun chemotherapy in her battle against the disease.
3 years agoFlowers 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 agoThe 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.
4 years agoJapanese 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.
4 years agoIran 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.
4 years agoThis 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.
4 years agoJapanese fashion designer Issey Miyake, whose global career spanned more than half a century, has died aged 84.
4 years agoNewton-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.
4 years agoSocial 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.
4 years agoPaul 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.
4 years agoA 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.
4 years agoThe 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.
4 years agoAt 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.
4 years agoWhen 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.
4 years agoThe couple tied the knot Saturday, according to a marriage license they filed in Clark County, Nevada, that was seen by AFP.
4 years agoFor children of parents who died from the virus, sorrow and anger remain.
4 years agoUS actress Constance Wu made a suicide attempt three years ago, bruised by a bitter social media backlash, the Crazy Rich Asians star said.
4 years agoPaloma 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.
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