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News of the World | Valentino’s dramatic Paris couture has Celine Dion weeping
Valentino took drama to its height at its spring couture collection in Paris, where Celine Dion wept theatrically as a solemn Naomi Campbell swept ... -
News of The World | Grammy-nominated album shines light on transgender pioneer
For decades, Jackie Shane was a musical mystery: a riveting black transgender soul singer who packed nightclubs in Toronto in the 1960s, but then ... -
News Of The World | No more than one wife: Israel looks to tackle Bedouin polygamy
On Hadra al-Faqira’s wedding anniversary, just weeks after she gave birth to a daughter, her husband walked out and took a second wife. She ... -
News Of The World | Memorable news satellite photos of 2018
From Russian war games to lava flows on Hawaii to raging fires in California, images gathered from high above Earth by satellites in 2018 ... -
News of the world | At new Museum of Black Civilizations, a call to come home
The Museum of Black Civilizations in Senegal opened this month amid a global conversation about the ownership and legacy of African art. The West ... -
TRAVELOG | Digital detox: Resorts offer perks for handing over phones
Can you take a vacation from your cellphone? A growing number of hotels will help you find out. Some resorts are offering perks, like ... -
Music Review | Quintessentially Baroque
Part I – Once forgotten, now recollected The story of Baroque is a perpetual one, as told by past and present editions of the ... -
Zhang Yimou’s ‘Shadow’ is breathtakingly beautiful saga
Black ink drips from the tip of a brush and daggers into clear water, spiraling out like smoke; a Chinese zither sounds a ferocious, ... -
‘Diamantino’ is bizarre political satire
The pro-European Union lobby just got the silliest, sexiest cinematic endorsement it could hope for in “Diamantino,” and that’s merely one of the surprises ... -
SHOWBIZ | Julia Roberts finds life (and her roles) get better with age
Julia Roberts is sitting on a couch in a Soho hotel when Lucas Hedges bursts in and begins frantically searching for his phone, sending ... -
A delicious, vicious acting feast in ‘The Favourite’
Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Favourite,” a wicked blast of nasty fun, gleefully dispenses with the usual decorum of the period drama to free its powerhouse ... -
Travelog | Food chain disruption eyed in Hawaii whale sighting decline
Research into the decline of humpback whale sightings in Hawaii points to a food chain disruption likely caused by warmer ocean temperatures in the ... -
News of the World | Peacekeepers left more than 6,000 children in Liberia
The only memento Moses Z. Kaine has from his father is a T-shirt, left more than two decades ago when the peacekeeper’s tour of ... -
News of the World | Pocket money apps aim to help kids in cashless world
Father of two Roland Hall turned to a British startup’s digital pocket money app because his kids were still too young to get bank ... -
News of the World | Hitler in war, Merkel in peace: A train car for history
Adolf Hitler tried literally to rewrite history in 1940 when the Nazi leader commandeered the dining coach to serve France the same humiliation Germany ... -
Macau Events | Fashion Festival connects brands and people
This year’s Macao Fashion Festival was a three-day event, organized by the Macau Productivity and Technology Transfer Center (CPTTM) and the Macau Trade and ... -
Travelog | Boracay at the moment, beautiful and strange
Say goodbye to beach parties and water sports when the white-sand resort of Boracay Island in the central Philippines reopens to tourists today after ... -
News of The World | Harry and Meghan bring rain to drought-stricken Outback town
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were jokingly thanked for bringing England’s notoriously inclement weather to a drought-stricken Outback town this week in a ... -
News of the World | Israeli frankincense farmer cashes in on rare honey
An Israeli farmer has cashed in by making exotic honey from a rare tree that produces frankincense — the resin once worth its weight ... -
Electrics, SUVs and supercars mingle in Paris
A wildly expensive supercar from Bugatti. A one-seater retro Ferrari with a giant engine. And, notwithstanding the buzz over electrics, a big, seven-seat luxury ... -
Music Festival | A Night at the Opera, Donizetti opens FIMM
This evening marks the start of the 32nd Macao International Music Festival (FIMM). With the theme “Enjoy – The Moment in music”, we are ... -
Places Moon visited are glimpses into secluded state of North Korea itself
A sacred volcano at the heart of North Korea’s founding mythology. The ruling party’s headquarters, said to be a potential target of South Korean ... -
News of the World | Experts restore what might be oldest house in Mexico
The plain, one-story stone-linteled structure sat hidden in plain sight for hundreds of years behind generations of street vendors hawking goods from stands outside ... -
News of the World | Parents fret through the ages from penny press to social media
When Stephen Dennis was raising his two sons in the 1980s, he never heard the phrase “screen time,” nor did he worry much about ... -
News of the World | Fall book releases include topical works for all ages
I think that people need stories to help us understand our place in the world and remember that we’re part of something bigger,” says ... -
News of the World | Small firms thrive as customers seek more unique clothing
Claudio Belotti knows he cut the denim that became the jeans Meghan Markle wore on one of her first outings as the fiancee of ... -
News of the World | Google tracks your movements, like it or not
An Associated Press investigation found that many Google services on Android devices and iPhones store your location data even if you’ve used privacy settings ... -
Travelog | Solar cookout aims to woo traditional chefs, cut carbon
The savory aromas of roasting hot dogs and chicken kebabs wafted out of metal and glass vacuum tubes heated by mirrors curved to capture ... -
News of the world | Day after escape, Mexico crash survivors resume travel
Just a day after a harrowing escape from a crashed and burning Aeromexico jetliner, many of its 103 passengers and crew went to work ... -
News of the World | For US pot companies, Canada is the land of opportunity
Green Thumb Industries had a business plan, expertise and plenty of ambition to grow its marijuana business. What the Chicago-based company didn’t have was ... -
Travelog | Travel agents: How to find a good one and how they can help
Erika Richter, communications director for the American Society of Travel Agents, joined this week’s episode of the AP Travel podcast “Get Outta Here!” to ... -
News of the World | Coffee and conservation: Mozambique tries both on a mountain
At Mozambique’s Mount Gorongosa — where farmers are being encouraged to grow coffee in the shade of hardwood trees, both to improve their own ... -
News of the World | The most breathtaking creations from the top couture houses
Paris — the City of Light, lovelocks and the Seine River— was the backdrop this week in Chanel’s sublime couture collection that showed designer ... -
News of the World | Saudi Arabia Women drivers challenge wide array of traditional limits
Saudi women are driving freely through busy city streets for the first time after years of risking arrest if they dared to get behind ... -
Russia | Political tensions set aside during World Cup
Chilly, gray, threatening. To many outsiders, that’s the image Russia conveys to the world. But that’s not the Russia World Cup fans are discovering. ...
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