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A handout picture released on Friday by the city of Venice shows a couple preparing coffee in front of the Rialto Bridge (Ponte de Rialto) the oldest of the four bridges spanning the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. Two German tourists were fined and asked to leave the city after they were caught preparing coffee in front of the Rialto Bridge. — AFP
Venice coffee costs rule-breaking German tourists 950 euros
ROME — Two German tourists were fined Friday for making themselves a coffee on the steps of the famous Rialto bridge in Venice and asked to leave the city, the municipal authorities said.The two backpackers from Berlin, aged 32 and 35, had made themselves comfortable at the foot of the world-famous landmark and got out their portable coffee-making equipment when they were spotted by a passer-by and reported to the police, the city authorities said in a statement.Using a newly-passed law, police officers fined them 950 euros ($1,050) for unseemly behavior and asked them to leave Venice."Venice must be treated with respect and impolite people who come here and think they can do what they want must understand that, thanks to the local police, they can be stopped, fined and sent...
July 20, 2019

Venice coffee costs rule-breaking German tourists 950 euros

File photo of a student taking an exam.
Teen mum in Guinea gives birth during exam, returns to finish
CONAKRY — Nothing — not even childbirth — deterred teenager Fatoumata Kourouma Conde from completing the exam for which she had spent the past year preparing.The 18-year-old, from the town of Mamou in eastern Guinea, realised she was just about to give birth as she sat down for the physics part of her baccalaureate, a high-school diploma that entails exams in a range of subjects.She was rushed to the local hospital where within 10 minutes she swiftly delivered a baby boy.Just 40 minutes after leaving the examination room, she was back at her desk, stunning her family who had rushed to the clinic as well as the invigilators.Her tale, recounted by the local media, was confirmed by the head of the exam center, Mohamed Diakite.Conde told AFP that she had told no-one, including her...
July 20, 2019

Teen mum in Guinea gives birth during exam, returns to finish

Gabriel Luna and Arnold Schwarzenegger speak at the
Cruise, Schwarzenegger revive 80s Hollywood classics at Comic-Con
SAN DIEGO — Hollywood '80s nostalgia soared at San Diego Comic-Con on Thursday as Tom Cruise swooped in to unveil the new "Top Gun" while Arnold Schwarzenegger revealed why he'll be back for an explosive-looking "Terminator" sequel.A-lister Cruise surprised an ecstatic crowd at the world's largest pop culture convention in California with first footage of the long-awaited sequel to the 1986 smash action film that made him a household name.Describing "Top Gun: Maverick" as a "love letter to aviation," Cruise introduced clips of his ageing pilot still launching jets off aircraft carriers, refusing to retire despite failing to rise up the ranks.The aerial shots were "all real" and the film — out next summer — is the result of...
July 19, 2019

Cruise, Schwarzenegger revive 80s Hollywood classics at Comic-Con

Taylor Swift
New 'Cats' movie trailer brings out the claws
LOS ANGELES — The star-laden movie version of hit stage musical "Cats" released its first trailer on Thursday, but first impressions were far from cuddly.The movie, to be released in December, features Taylor Swift in her first film role, along with Jennifer Hudson, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Idris Elba and James Corden.The film uses the actors' faces and covers their bodies in computer generated fur as they sing and dance on a larger than life set.Scott Mendelson, film critic for Forbes.com, tweeted that the trailer was "appropriately terrifying and insane, like a durg-induced nightmare. I can't wait!""Taylor I love you but this is gonna give me nightmares," a user called Charlotte Eller posted on YouTube. The trailer racked up more than 100,000...
July 19, 2019

New 'Cats' movie trailer brings out the claws

US rapper ASAP Rocky poses before the Christian Dior 2017 spring/summer Haute Couture collection in Paris in this Jan. 23, 2017. — AFP
Swedish court extends US rapper ASAP Rocky's detention
STOCKHOLM — A Stockholm court on Friday ordered that US rapper ASAP Rocky should be kept in custody in Sweden for another week while an investigation is completed into an alleged assault during a street brawl.Fans and fellow artists have campaigned on social media for the 30-year-old artist, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, to be freed since his arrest shortly after midnight on July 3 following the street fight on June 30.The Stockholm District Court ordered on July 5 that Mayers should be kept in custody while the case was being investigated, as he was considered a "flight risk".The court then gave the prosecutor until July 19 to decide on whether to press charges.However the prosecutor requested the deadline be extended to next week as they needed more time to complete the...
July 19, 2019

Swedish court extends US rapper ASAP Rocky's detention

Yasmina Joumblatt, the granddaughter of the legendary singer Asmahan, and Gabriel Yared, a Lebanese composer, perform during the Beitiddine Art Festival in Beiteddine, Lebanon, on Thursday. — Reuters
Descendent of Arab musical legend brings nostalgia to Lebanese festival
BEIRUT — Lebanon's traditional summer festivals harked back to the Arab world's musical past this year, highlighted by a performance by the great-granddaughter of the legendary 1930s diva Asmahan in a mountain palace.Asmahan captivated audiences at a moment when European colonialism had replaced the Ottoman Empire, and cultural icons reached the masses via the new media of cinema and radio, tapping into a surging spirit of Arab nationalism.Nearly a century later, her great-granddaughter Yasmina Jumblatt took to the stage on Thursday to sing at the Beiteddine festival in an Ottoman-era palace in Lebanon's Chouf mountains, accompanying the music of French-Lebanese composer Gabriel Yared."I was a great admirer of her as a woman. I discovered her art later in life. What we...
July 19, 2019

Descendent of Arab musical legend brings nostalgia to Lebanese festival

Tuddu, 63, from India's Bihar state, wears his six-foot-long mat of hair on top of his head like a turban wrapped in a white cloth.
Indian man hasn't washed his six-foot dreadlocks in 40 years
LONDON — Here’s yet another hairy story from the land of the mystic. But instead of scaring you, the person who literally let his hair down here, just makes one not only wonder but also smile at his idiosyncrasy.An Indian man from the Munger district of eastern Bihar state does not believe in the adage “hair today, gone tomorrow,” as he has put in practice the policy “hair today, get long every day.”Sakal Dev Tuddu, 63, stands apart from the crowd for wearing his six-foot-long mat of hair on top of his head like a turban.And he has managed to grow this ‘mat’ by not cutting or washing his hair in 40 years, according to the MAILONLINE.He now sports six-foot-long dreadlocks, but unlike the sadhus (Indian mendicants), Tuddu’s hair is matted into one huge knotted lock, which...
July 18, 2019

Indian man hasn't washed his six-foot dreadlocks in 40 years

Actor Kevin Spacey acknowledges another guest during a reception for the 2016 Kennedy Center Honorees at the White House in Washington in this Dec. 4, 2016 file photo. — AFP
US prosecutors drop Kevin Spacey sex assault case
BOSTON — Massachusetts prosecutors on Wednesday dropped a criminal case accusing former "House of Cards" star Kevin Spacey of sexually assaulting an 18-year-old man at a Nantucket bar in 2016 after the alleged victim refused to testify.Prosecutors said they made the decision to drop the felony indecent assault and battery charge against the Oscar winner after the alleged victim invoked his right under the US Constitution against giving self-incriminating testimony.Spacey's lawyers had previously accused the man of deleting text messages that would support his defense. The man invoked his Fifth Amendment rights during a hearing earlier this month concerning the whereabouts of his cell phone, which was missing.A lawyer for Spacey, 59, did not respond to requests for...
July 18, 2019

US prosecutors drop Kevin Spacey sex assault case

Starred French chef Frederic Anton poses during a photo session at the
Eiffel Tower restaurant to reopen after collision of kitchen egos
PARIS — Legendary Eiffel Tower restaurant the Jules Verne reopens this weekend after a titanic battle that saw two top chefs prise it away from culinary star Alain Ducasse, who had run the eatery for the past decade.Ducasse was evicted by the Eiffel Tower's operator last year to make room for chefs Frederic Anton and Thierry Marx, whose consortium won the right to take over the management of the Jules Verne and the other food outlets in the monument, which include snack counters and a brasserie on the first level.The transition for the Jules Verne proved a bitter one. Ducasse was especially stung by the operator's opinion that the new chefs offered a "strong leap in terms of quality".Suggesting his chosen successors were not up to the task, Ducasse launched — and lost...
July 18, 2019

Eiffel Tower restaurant to reopen after collision of kitchen egos

This handout photo taken on July 13, 2019 by the Guangzhou Wolbaki Biotech Company shows mass rearing of adult mosquitoes in containers at the Wolbaki company in Guangzhou in southern China's Guangdong province. — AFP
Buzz off: breakthrough technique eradicates mosquitoes
TOKYO — A breakthrough technique harnessing two methods to target disease-carrying mosquitoes was able to effectively eradicate buzzing biters in two test sites in China, according to research published on Thursday.The mosquitoes targeted are a type that is particularly difficult to control called Aedes albopictus — more popularly known as the Asian tiger mosquito -- which are a major vector for diseases including Zika and dengue.The study "demonstrates the potential of a potent new tool", wrote Peter Armbruster, a professor at Georgetown University's department of biology, in a review of the work.Researchers harnessed two population control methods: the use of radiation — which effectively sterilizes mosquitoes — and a strain of bacteria called Wolbachia that leaves...
July 17, 2019

Buzz off: breakthrough technique eradicates mosquitoes

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