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New York auction smashes record for Frida Kahlo work
An art handler adjusts Frida Kahlo's final "Bust" Self-Portrait 'Diego y yo" (Diego and I) at Sotheby's in New York City. –AFPA rare painting by Frida Kahlo sold in a New York auction house for almost $35 million, a record price for a work by the iconic Mexican artist. At the same sale, a painting by French artist Pierre Soulages also broke a record for his work by reaching $20.2 million dollars. As expected, the self-portrait of Kahlo...
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'Past Tense' exhibition, journey through accumulated layers of Jerusalem's history
Jerusalem's landscape, as we know it today, is merely a surface layer, a slice in a long tumultuous history that has witnessed a succession of takeovers by people and civilizations. In his exhibition 'Past Tense', Palestinian artist, Jack Persekian, digs through accumulated layers of history carried in these photographs, unearthing the details of the city, and the lives of its people and places. In a reverse process, Persekian reconstructs...
Fungistanbul band member Roni Aran plays one of his instruments made with waste in Istanbul.—AFP photos n
'Trash music': Turkish band recycles rubbish into sounds
Fungistanbul band member Roni Aran plays one of his instruments made with waste in Istanbul.—AFP photosAn empty can, the base of a lamp and string: what sound like rubbish to some are music to the ears of a Turkish band that turns waste into instruments to promote recycling. Fungistanbul, a trio that began experimenting with a sound they call "Trash Oriental" in 2019, have joined a growing global movement of groups that bang, strum and blow...
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Adele returns with new ferocity on '30' album
Adele and Oprah WinfreySix years after Adele's last blockbuster exploration of heartache and loss, everyone's favorite ugly-cry balladeer is back, channeling her vocal fireworks to lay bare the emotional torture-and catharsis-of divorce. In line with her three other records the British artist's highly anticipated new studio album "30," out today, digs into romantic pangs with the heart-piercing high notes set to stirring piano arrangements that...
Supporters of the FreeBritney movement celebrate following a court decision ending her conservatorship outside the Stanley Mosk courthouse in Los Angeles, California.-AFP n
Britney Spears says fans 'saved' her life during conservatorship
Supporters of the FreeBritney movement celebrate following a court decision ending her conservatorship outside the Stanley Mosk courthouse in Los Angeles, California.-AFPPop star Britney Spears has addressed her fans directly for the first time since a judge ended the controversial guardianship that has controlled her life for the past 13 years. In a video posted to Instagram late Tuesday, Spears, wearing low-rise black shorts and a flowered...
A sanitation worker walks past a poster of actor Suriya Sivakumar from the movie Jai Bhim in Chennai on November.-AFP n
Police guard Indian actor after hit film sparks caste furore
A sanitation worker walks past a poster of actor Suriya Sivakumar from the movie Jai Bhim in Chennai on November.-AFPThe star of a hit new Indian film tackling the oppression of marginalized communities was under armed police guard Thursday after threats of violence. "Jai Bhim" is a legal drama based on the true story of an activist lawyer fighting for a tribal woman whose husband was wrongly arrested and killed in police custody in 1993.The...
LONDON: A handout photograph released by the UK Parliament shows Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaking during Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) in the House of Commons in London. - AFPnn
UK's Johnson admits mistake in handling sleaze as MPs grill him
LONDON: A handout photograph released by the UK Parliament shows Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaking during Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) in the House of Commons in London. - AFPLONDON: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson defended his botched bid to overhaul parliament's standards system that has prompted a weeks-long sleaze crisis for the ruling Conservatives, as he faced a grilling from lawmakers on Wednesday. With opposition...
SANTIAGO: Chilean President Sebastian Pinera and his wife Cecilia Morel arrive for a press conference at La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago, November 17, 2021. - AFPnnnn
Chile's Pinera: The president defeated by social upheaval
SANTIAGO: Chilean President Sebastian Pinera and his wife Cecilia Morel arrive for a press conference at La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago, November 17, 2021. - AFPSANTIAGO: Chile's President Sebastian Pinera modernized the political right to distance it from the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship, but a social crisis that broke out in 2019 will see him leave power with his popularity in tatters. The billionaire leader, 71, who cannot stand...
KIEV: A woman holds an oxygen mask over the face of her baby suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in a ward of a children's hospital in Kiev. - AFPnnn
In Ukraine, the latest COVID surge is attacking more kids
KIEV: A woman holds an oxygen mask over the face of her baby suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in a ward of a children's hospital in Kiev. - AFPKIEV: Three-month-old Misha has spent 10 days in a Kiev paediatric hospital - including three in intensive care - due to pneumonia triggered by COVID-19. He is one of an influx of young patients to the infectious diseases hospital in Ukraine's capital, which has seen the coronavirus...
ABBOTSFORD, British Columbia: A view of flooding in the Sumas Prairie area of Abbotsford British Columbia, Canada, on November 17, 2021. – AFPnnn
Canada death toll set to rise; floods ravage Pacific coast
ABBOTSFORD, British Columbia: A view of flooding in the Sumas Prairie area of Abbotsford British Columbia, Canada, on November 17, 2021. – AFPABBOTSFORD: Canada is sending the military to help evacuate and support communities hit by "catastrophic" flooding, with the death toll expected to rise after record rainfall on the Pacific coast triggered a state of emergency Wednesday. Officials said downpours in British Columbia this week trapped...
BRIDGETOWN: The Barbados flag flies above the Barbados Parliament Buildings yesterday in Bridgetown, Barbados. On Nov 30, 2021 the 55th anniversary of the country's independence from Britain, Barbados will remove Queen Elizabeth as head of state and swear in a local Barbadian president as head of state. – AFPn
Virtual visas: Barbados says to open first 'metaverse' embassy
BRIDGETOWN: The Barbados flag flies above the Barbados Parliament Buildings yesterday in Bridgetown, Barbados. On Nov 30, 2021 the 55th anniversary of the country's independence from Britain, Barbados will remove Queen Elizabeth as head of state and swear in a local Barbadian president as head of state. – AFPBRIDGETOWN: Tiny Caribbean nation Barbados has laid claim to establishing what it says will be the first diplomatic embassy in the...
BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel walks into the Reichstag building to attend a session at the Bundestag, the lower house of parliament, yesterday in Berlin, where the parliament is to examine proposed new COVID-related restrictions. - AFPnn
Political row snags German bid to tame COVID-19 surge
BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel walks into the Reichstag building to attend a session at the Bundestag, the lower house of parliament, yesterday in Berlin, where the parliament is to examine proposed new COVID-related restrictions. - AFPBERLIN: German leaders were debating yesterday plans to impose tougher curbs on the unvaccinated, but a political row threatened to torpedo the country's bid to fight a ferocious wave of the coronavirus...
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This undated imageshows a colorized transmission electron micrograph of mpox particles (green) found within an infected cell (pink and purple) cultured in the laboratory. - AFP
Mpox global health emergency, Kuwait monitoring situation
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NEW DELHI: India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi inspects the guard of honor to mark the country's Independence Day, at the Red Fort in New Delhi on August 15, 2024. -AFP
Modi renews push for common civil code for India
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Minouche Shafik
Columbia president resigns months after campus Gaza demos
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KUWAIT: People watch pearl diving boats as they arrive at the main beach at the end of the 33rd annual pearl diving festival. Pearl-diving trips are held annually under the patronage of the Kuwaiti Amir in order to keep traditions alive.
Pearl diving trip winds up
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