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Journalists at work at AFP in 1946, two years after it was reclaimed from the pro-Nazi regime during the uprising that liberated Paris from German occupation. -AFP
AFP established in tumult of 1944 Paris uprising
PARIS - Agence France-Presse was created in the tumult of World War II by a band of journalists who stormed a pro-Nazi newsroom and took over as Paris was in revolt.It was August 20, 1944, the day after Resistance leader Henri Rol-Tanguy had called Parisians into action against the Nazis who had occupied their city for four years.The group of eight met at 7:00 am outside a dilapidated building near the stock exchange on Place de la Bourse, in the heart of Paris, where the French Information Office (OFI) was installed.It had been the home of Havas, the world's first international news agency that was nationalized by the pro-Nazi regime in 1940 to set up the OFI."It had become an agency of German propaganda," one of the eight, Gilles Martinet, recalled in a radio interview in...
August 12, 2019

AFP established in tumult of 1944 Paris uprising

In this file photograph taken on August 25, 1944, Parisians welcome soldiers of the French 2nd Armored Division as they arrive in Paris,  after the battle for the Liberation of Paris during World War II. Part of the great history of France, the week of the liberation of Paris 75 years ago, marked by the uprising against the German occupiers, was also that of small smiling or tragic stories. -AFP
75 years ago, Paris freed from Nazi occupation
PARIS - In August 1944 ordinary Parisians rose up, led by resistance fighters supported by workers, women and even priests to throw off the Nazi yoke after four years.Following six days of street clashes, random attacks and armed barricades, they were joined by French and US soldiers and victory was confirmed."Paris outraged! Paris broken! Paris martyred!" General Charles de Gaulle declared outside the city hall on August 25."But Paris liberated! Liberated by itself. Liberated by its people."The landing of tens of thousands of American, British and Canadian troops on the beaches of Normandy on June 6 launched the final pushback against Adolf Hitler's forces.After being bogged down in Normandy for weeks, the Allies were finally able to advance eastwards, taking...
August 12, 2019

75 years ago, Paris freed from Nazi occupation

 Members of K-Pop band, BTS perform on ABC's 'Good Morning America' show in Central Park in New York on May 15. -Reuters
K-Pop's BTS goes on holiday, asks fans for privacy
SEOUL - South Korean boy band, BTS, will take their first long holiday in six years after a series of global hits, their managers said, asking fans to respect the band's privacy if they see them in "a chance encounter".The band, which has led a wave of Korean pop music, crowned their global reach with three No. 1 albums on the Billboard chart in less than a year, a 2019 Grammy nomination and concerts from Los Angeles to Paris.The seven members will take their first extended vacation since the band's debut in 2013, managers Big Hit Entertainment said on Sunday."This period of rest will be an opportunity for the members of BTS, who have relentless(ly) driven themselves toward their goal since their debut, to recharge and prepare to present themselves anew as musicians...
August 12, 2019

K-Pop's BTS goes on holiday, asks fans for privacy

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In three shaken US cities, Lady Gaga tries to channel 'fury into hope'
NEW YORK - In El Paso, Texas, there are books for third-grade students, many of whom have none at home. Disabled students in Dayton, Ohio, will get bouncy chairs to help calm them for learning. Science kits will go to fifth graders in Gilroy, California.Those are just three of a series of local classroom initiatives that Grammy-winning singer Lady Gaga has pledged to fund as students in those shaken communities, the latest U.S. cities to endure mass shootings, go back to school this week.Her aim is to bring a measure of hope to places devastated by an extraordinary week of mass shootings in a country numbed by a steady beat of news about gun violence."I want to channel my confusion, frustration, and fury into hope," Gaga said on Facebook, where she announced the donation from her...
August 12, 2019

In three shaken US cities, Lady Gaga tries to channel 'fury into hope'

 In this file photo taken on July 22, Martina Caruso,
Italy's top female chef mixes it up with flavors from a tiny island
SALINA, ITALY - Award-winning young Italian chef Martina Caruso's love of food is in her blood -- and she has the tattoos to prove it.At just 29, Caruso has become a hit in the world of haute cuisine by using the sunshine flavors of her tiny volcanic island of Salina and giving a modern twist to traditional recipes.Earlier this year, she was named Italy's female chef of 2019 -- just three years after she became the youngest Italian to win a Michelin star at the family-run Signum restaurant and hotel on Salina.The flavors from the idyllic island infuse Caruso's dishes and her favorite ingredients are even tattooed on her arm: garlic, oil, hot pepper, octopus and the sea.From a young age she watched her father Michele, who as Signum's chef was devoted to traditional...
August 10, 2019

Italy's top female chef mixes it up with flavors from a tiny island

Woodstock producer Michael Lang (L) and Woodstock photographer Henry Diltz pose during a photo exhibit that celebrates the 50th anniversary of Woodstock in New York, on Friday.  -Reuters
Woodstock producer 'pretty bummed' at missed bid to recreate 1969 activism
NEW YORK - The man behind the failed Woodstock 50 anniversary festival said on Friday he was "pretty bummed" at losing out on a chance to encourage people to take action on global warming.Michael Lang, who was also one of the producers of the 1969 Woodstock music festival, said he had hoped that the new event would recreate the activism of the late 1960s."The reason to do it really was to engage people in activism and the efforts to stop global warming, which I think is probably the greatest threat to humanity that we've seen in our lifetime," Lang told Reuters Television.Lang was visiting a 50th anniversary Woodstock photo exhibit at the Morrison Hotel Gallery in New York following the cancellation last month of a planned three-day event to mark the festival that...
August 10, 2019

Woodstock producer 'pretty bummed' at missed bid to recreate 1969 activism

A new home, seen Wednesday, on Cielo Drive in Beverly Hills, California, has replaced the now razed home in which Sharon Tate and four others were killed by the Manson Family 50 years ago. -AFP
Manson murders grip tourists and Tarantino 50 years on
LOS ANGELES - As a tour guide specializing in notorious Hollywood deaths, Scott Michaels is well aware of America's morbid fascination with the dark side of Tinseltown.But on the 50th anniversary of the murders of actress Sharon Tate and four others at the hands of Charles Manson's apocalyptic cult, he has never seen anything like it."It's unprecedented really. I've never seen the attention," he told AFP at his museum in Los Angeles. "I'm running extra tours, two or three extra tours a week. The attention is crazy."Michaels drives his customers up to Cielo Drive, the leafy and winding road above exclusive Beverly Hills where director Roman Polanski's wife Tate -- eight-and-a-half months pregnant -- was stabbed to death in the early hours of...
August 08, 2019

Manson murders grip tourists and Tarantino 50 years on

The 1969 Abbey Road album cover. -Courtesy photo
The Beatles' iconic Abbey Road cover shot 50 years ago today
LONDON - Fifty years ago today The Beatles were photographed crossing a leafy street in north London, creating one of the most famous album covers in music history and an image imitated by countless fans ever since.The picture of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr striding over a zebra crossing on Abbey Road was taken outside the EMI Recording Studios where they made the 1969 album of the same name, and nearly all of their other recordings.Scottish photographer Iain Macmillan took just six shots of the group on the crossing, with the fifth used as the cover of the band's eleventh studio album, released on Sept. 26 1969.'Abbey Road', which was voted the best Beatles album by readers of Rolling Stone in 2009, was the only one of the group's original...
August 08, 2019

The Beatles' iconic Abbey Road cover shot 50 years ago today

Disney to reboot
Disney to reboot 'Home Alone' for new TV streaming service
LOS ANGELES - Disney is rebooting "Home Alone" and "Night at the Museum" for its new TV streaming service, which launches in the US in November and is intended to rival Netflix.The beloved and high-grossing film franchises were acquired by Disney during its takeover of 21st Century Fox.Chief executive Bob Iger said Disney was "focused on leveraging Fox's vast library of great titles... for example reimagining 'Home Alone,' 'Night at the Museum,' 'Cheaper by the Dozen,' and 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' for a new generation on Disney+.""Nothing is more important to us than getting this right," he added in an earnings call Tuesday.He did not clarify whether the new versions would be feature films or television programs.The...
August 08, 2019

Disney to reboot 'Home Alone' for new TV streaming service

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No host for the upcoming TV Emmy Award ceremony
LOS ANGELES - Like the Oscars before it, the upcoming 71st Emmy Awards ceremony will go on without a celebrity host, organizers announced Wednesday.The decision will allow the September ceremony to dedicate more time to the television shows nominated for honors, said Fox Entertainment CEO Charlie Collier."If you have a host and an opening number, that's 15-20 minutes that you don't have to salute the shows," Collier said at a gathering of industry reporters.The last time the Emmys skipped having a host was in 2003. It only happened two other times, in 1975 and 1998.This year's event honoring the best television shows is scheduled for September 22.The decision to go ahead without a host could help shake up a ceremony often considered too slow, which suffered from...
August 08, 2019

No host for the upcoming TV Emmy Award ceremony

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