Trump’s threats to demolish Kennedy Center sparks protest
Protestors gathered outside Washington’s Kennedy Center after President Trump’s plans to close the arts venue.
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Brentford beat Chelsea 3-0 to shatter Alonso’s London honeymoon
Chelsea left with one point from their last three Premier League games after a 3-0 defeat at neighbours Brentford.
Blind date: âWe talked about how I donât like Clapham gays â guess where he lives?â
David (left), 34, a children’s doctor, meets Dec, 31, a culture and sex writer
âWeâve been on a good run lately. Weâve not had a row for weeks!â: Coleen and Wayne Rooney on marriage, mistakes and making reality TV
His on-pitch triumphs (and off-pitch scandals), her turn as Wagatha Christie … for years, the football power couple have made headlines, des...
Meditating by the Dnipro: Iâm an artist in Ukraine, searching for peace and a life between the missiles
Sometimes, you can remember what ordinary life was like before Russia’s invasion. Then reality comes screaming back, says artist Anna Ivanen...
âA maelstrom of his own makingâ: how Ed Sheeranâs tour turned into a full-blown culture war
Moment of reckoning for ‘Mr Nice Guy’ of music, who embraced Macklemore’s political cred only for pro-Palestine rapper to be dropped under p...
Disney taps Character.AI CEO as first tech chief
Karandeep Anand is set to join Disney on October 2, and will report directly to CEO Josh D'Amaro, who called Anand 'an expert builder and st...
Macron says France will convene G7 energy summit as fuel prices soar
President Emmanuel Macron said the meeting would be an opportunity 'to consider options for a possible release or unlocking of strategic res...
A Trumpian 'Ubu Roi' takes stage in Paris
Daniel Benoin relocates Alfred Jarry's irreverent farce to the United States in a deliberately parodic production at the Théâtre de Paris th...
Russian journalist Roman Badanin: 'For Putin, the war in Ukraine is simply a means to stay in power'
Badanin is the co-author, with Mikhail Rubin, of a new book on Vladimir Putin. In an interview, he explains their approach and highlights so...
As UN peacekeepers in Lebanon pack up, fears grow that Israel could 'do anything, without witnesses'
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon is due to end its operations on December 31, after 48 years of deployment. Lebanese authorities...
Russia seizes assets of Nestlé and French firms Auchan and Leroy Merlin
Moscow defended on Friday a decree issued by Russian President Vladimir Putin the previous evening that led authorities to seize assets of t...
Storms brew over the Eiffel Tower
Security breaches, financial mismanagement, lack of oversight, erratic governance: Serious failings within the company that operates the mon...
Le Pen's presidential rivals attack her on foreign policy
Lagging behind far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in the polls, her rivals are shifting the debate toward geopolitics and visions for Europe,...
Russian tennis player Blinkova switches allegiance to France
Moscow-born Anna Blinkova has previously represented Russia in the Billie Jean Cup.
Greek women's rights pioneer Margaret Papandreou dies
Margaret Papandreou was a founding member of the Women's Union of Greece in 1976 and served as its chairman for several years. She died aged...
Trump bans CNN, MS NOW and Politico from White House over coverage
US President Donald Trump said the ban is due to reports of 'fiction and lies', and warned that other news organizations could face similar...
At the Guimet Museum in Paris, the Korean art of trompe-l'œil libraries
An exhibition invites visitors to discover a genre of painting that developed on the Korean Peninsula between the 18th and 20th centuries: r...
Human Rights Watch sees 'pause' in Venezuela repression but urges deeper reforms
The organization said overt repression has eased under interim President Delcy Rodriguez, following its first official visit to Venezuela in...
Ahead of Israel's legislative elections, opposition to Benjamin Netanyahu weakened by internal divisions
Yair Golan, retired general and leader of the left-wing Democrats party, denounced opposition infighting ahead of the October 27 legislative...
Why Macron is warning against risk of Russian hybrid warfare in France
The French leader brought together presidential candidates and party leaders at the Elysée Palace on Friday for a confidential briefing on t...
Denmark says Greenland security deal with US 'good for NATO and Europe'
Denmark and Greenland said Friday they expect to sign a security agreement with the United States next week that will strengthen the US role...
A$AP Rocky, the rapper reinventing masculinity
Like many of his peers, the global superstar grew up amid poverty and violence. Yet he stands apart in the world of rap. He rejects homophob...
Tajikistan celebrates its 35th independence anniversary
To mark the 35th anniversary, the country’s president, Emomali Rahmon, set out plans for economic growth, hydropower, investment, and a stro...