27 Apr 2012 - 9:26am
LONDON, April 26, 2012 (AFP) - Hollywood veteran Robert Redford moved his Sundance film festival from Utah's snowy mountains to London on Thursday, in a bid to kick start an international expansion of the event.
Sundance London, a smaller version of the US film festival set up by the actor and director in 1985, will showcase 22 films as...
26 Apr 2012 - 10:50am
LOS ANGELES, April 25, 2012 (AFP) - There's nothing boring about Boring, Oregon, especially when it comes to building bridges with the good folks of little Dull, Scotland.
Boring, a rural suburb of Portland named after its early 20th century founding family, is poised to formally declare itself Dull's sister community on June 5 when its...
25 Apr 2012 - 11:56am
Angeles city, Philippines, April 25, 2012 (AFP) - Claude Tayag sees himself as a food missionary, hoping to convert people at home and abroad to the secret cuisine wonders of the Philippines.
The Southeast Asian nation's table-fare has long suffered a poor reputation internationally compared with its regional neighbours.
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24 Apr 2012 - 1:53pm
Singapore, April 24, 2012 (AFP) - From the bone-chilling air conditioning that pumps through Singapore's malls and offices to lights that burn all night, the city state is one of Asia's most intensive energy users.
Nearly all electricity used by the industrialised island is produced by burning fossil fuels, which in 2010 contributed to the...
23 Apr 2012 - 11:27am
LONDON, April 22, 2012 (AFP) - The doctor of Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb on Sunday hailed his "quite incredible" recovery, a day after the star woke from a coma and responded to members of his family.
Gibb, 62, contracted pneumonia and fell into the coma last week. He is suffering from colon and liver cancer.
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21 Apr 2012 - 3:10pm
YEKATERINBURG, Russia, April 21, 2012 (AFP) - Katya Nikitina could not sleep, think, or move during her first seven days at the rehab clinic. A heroin addict in the Urals in western Russia, she moved from Chelyabinsk to the facility in Yekaterinburg, the area's main urban centre, to get clean. "It's hard to think back to that time....
20 Apr 2012 - 3:05pm
Singapore, April 20, 2012 (AFP) - Singapore has begun installing police surveillance cameras that will eventually cover all 10,000 public-housing blocks across the island, officials confirmed Friday.
The move immediately drew mixed reactions in a city-state already famous for being one of the world's safest societies but now undergoing...
19 Apr 2012 - 2:21pm
PARIS, April 19, 2012 (AFP) - Widespread use of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter is set to steamroll France's laws restricting the announcement of the results of Sunday's first-round presidential election. For over 30 years, French voters have sat down in front of the radio or television after the last polling stations close at 8:...
17 Apr 2012 - 2:08pm
ABADIANIA: Every week using mainly his hands but also armed with scissors, a knife and scalpel, Joao Teixeira de Faria, a self-styled Brazilian medium and psychic surgeon, treats thousands of sick people.
Among the thousands who claim to have been cured by the healer known as "John of God" is Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the popular Brazilian ex-...
16 Apr 2012 - 4:36pm
TEHRAN: Iran on Monday officially launched the first phase of an ambitious project to pump water from the Caspian Sea to a city in its vast and expanding central desert, state media reported.
The initial phase will see a desalination plant and pipes built over the next two years to supply water to the desert city of Semnan, population 200,000,...
