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August 17, 2019
Acehnese hold mass dance for Indonesian independence day
BELGRADE - After making his name designing and printing posters for Nirvana and other bands at the height of Seattle's grunge scene, American artist Jeff Ross has since been wandering the globe in search of inspiration.Now he is finding it in Serbia, where the 58-year-old recently set up studio outside of Belgrade and is taking part in the gritty capital's vibrant street art scene."I sense there is something here, there is a ball of something happening and I want to be here for it, and collaborate, teach people how to screen print, make art, make music, noise," he told AFP of the "energy" that drew him to Serbia.On a recent night Ross could be seen spray-painting loopy, brightly colored designs on the walls of Maniac, one of Belgrade's underground --...
August 16, 2019
Nirvana artist finds a new canvas in Serbia
August 15, 2019
Nigeria's divisive tradition of facial markings fades
August 15, 2019
Irishman, 99, competes at world tango championships in Argentina
August 15, 2019
Opera's 'New Callas' charts her life on Instagram
BUCHAREST - American heavy metal band Metallica has donated 250,000 euros to a Romanian association building the country's first pediatric oncology hospital, they said on Wednesday.The donation to Daruieste Viata (Give Life), founded in 2012, came ahead of the band's sold out concert on Wednesday, its fourth in the European Union state since 1999, the association said on its Facebook page.The donation was made through the band's non-profit foundation All Within My Hands, it said in a statement.Construction began in mid-2018 on the hospital in Bucharest, one of the few to be built in Romania over the last three decades. The project is expected to be completed next year, with donations from 260,000 individuals and slightly fewer than 2,000 companies so far.Romania has one of the...
August 15, 2019
Heavy metal band Metallica donates 250,000 euros for Romanian pediatric hospital
August 14, 2019
Leave our graffiti on the walls, say Sudan protesters
August 14, 2019
'I put two bullets in German officer's head' recalls French Resistance heroine
CARTHAGE, TUNISIA - Saber Sessi was working the night shift at a municipality vehicle depot in Carthage, Tunisia, when he signed off on five bulldozers in the early hours of July 9.Unbeknownst to him, the intended target for those bulldozers was his home."I opened the gate, I handed (the keys) over and then I saw them drive around to my house," said Sessi, 50, who lived beside the depot in the working-class neighborhood of Mohamed Ali, in the northern suburbs of the Tunisian capital.Sessi's house and nine other buildings were razed to the ground that night in a government operation to clear illegal homes from the area that used to be a battleground for gladiators in the Roman Empire - the Circus of Carthage.Today, two-thirds of Carthage - about 430 square km - is...
August 14, 2019
Battle of Carthage: Tunisia demolishes homes to protect ancient site
August 13, 2019
'Hobbs & Shaw' loses speed but still leads N.American box office
