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Chitetsu Watanabe after being recognized as the world's oldest living male. He has died away aged 112. — AFP
World's oldest man dies in Japan at 112
TOKYO — A Japanese man recently named the world's oldest living male has died aged 112, a local official said on Tuesday.Chitetsu Watanabe, who was born on March 5, 1907 in Niigata, north of Tokyo, died on Sunday at his nursing home in the same prefecture, the official said.The news came less than two weeks after he was officially recognised by Guinness World Records.Watanabe, who had five children, said the secret to longevity was to "not get angry and keep a smile on your face".He admitted a penchant for sweets such as custard pudding and ice cream.The oldest man in Japan is now Issaku Tomoe, who is 110 years old, according to Jiji Press, although it was not clear if Tomoe holds the title globally.The oldest living person is also Japanese, Kane Tanaka, a 117-year-old...
February 25, 2020

World's oldest man dies in Japan at 112

Katherine Johnson, a ground-breaking black NASA mathematician whose life was portrayed in the movie
Katherine Johnson, black NASA mathematician, dies at 101
WASHINGTON — Katherine Johnson, a ground-breaking black NASA mathematician whose life was portrayed in the movie "Hidden Figures," died on Monday aged 101, the space agency said.Johnson's calculations helped put the first man on the Moon in 1969, but she was little known until the 2017 Oscar-nominated film told the stories of three black women who worked at NASA."She was an American hero and her pioneering legacy will never be forgotten," NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said, honoring "her courage and the milestones we could not have reached without her."Johnson and a colleague were the first to calculate the parameters of the suborbital 1961 flight of astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American in space.Her math talents later helped determine the...
February 24, 2020

Katherine Johnson, black NASA mathematician, dies at 101

French shoe designer Christian Louboutin insists that wearing his towering six-inch stilettos is a 'form of liberty'. — AFP
Super-high heels free women, says shoe king Louboutin
PARIS — Super-high heels can free women, says legendary French shoe designer Christian Louboutin, who insists that wearing his towering six-inch stilettos is a "form of liberty".While some feminists see vertiginous heels as sexual enslavement, Louboutin believes the opposite — even if it means women have to walk slowly and carefully in his iconic red-soled creations."Women do not want to give up wearing high heels," the designer said before "The Exhibitionist", a retrospective of his 30-year career, opens in a Paris museum Wednesday.While Louboutin also makes trainers and flat shoes, he admitted that when it comes to the spike-heeled classics that made his name: "I don't think about comfort when I design.""No shoe with a 12cm (5 inch)...
February 24, 2020

Super-high heels free women, says shoe king Louboutin

British composer and pianist Alexis Ffrench is on a mission
UK pianist Alexis Ffrench bids to change image of classical music
LONDON — British composer and pianist Alexis Ffrench, a rising black star in the overwhelmingly white world of classical music, is on a mission "to change the narrative" that the genre is stuffy and outdated.The 48-year-old, who is set to release his latest album next month, is trying to counter what he sees as a false perception by using his fresh take on the music and growing status to reach new audiences.Ffrench's 2018 hit record "Evolution" propelled him to wider recognition after topping Britain's classical music charts for three weeks and spending around three months in the top 10.He now boasts nearly two million regular listeners on Spotify and has to date garnered around 200 million streams online, while also hosting a weekly show on new classical...
February 24, 2020

UK pianist Alexis Ffrench bids to change image of classical music

Ricky Martin, who opened the show, asked Chileans not to remain silent. — AFP
Protests in Chile hit LatAm's biggest music festival
SANTIAGO — Thousands of protesters armed with stones, sticks and Molotov cocktails clashed with police on Sunday as Latin America's biggest music festival opened, in the latest spurt of a four-month old wave of grassroots anger over economic inequality and other grievances.Police blocked the entrance to a park where the festival was being held in Vina del Mar, a seaside resort about 120 km (75 miles) west of Santiago.Officers used a helicopter and a balloon with surveillance cameras and drove back the protesters with water cannon and tear gas."Vandals and criminals are trying to do damage just four blocks from the entrance to the festival. But everything is under control," Jorge Martinez, the Valparaiso regional governor, told the 24-hour state news channel.After failing to...
February 24, 2020

Protests in Chile hit LatAm's biggest music festival

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Rubik's Cube Mona Lisa fetches 480,000 euros at Paris auction
PARIS — A Mona Lisa as puzzling as the smile of Leonardo da Vinci's muse — made out of nearly 300 Rubik's Cubes — sold for nearly half a million euros at auction in Paris on Sunday evening.Created by the French street artist Franck Slama, famous for the pixelated Space Invader mosaics that have popped up on city streets around the world, the "Rubik Mona Lisa" sold for 480,000 euros ($521,000), a record for the artist, Artcurial auction house said.Its guide price was 120,000 to 150,000 euros.Slama, who works under the pseudonym "Invader", has playfully styled himself the founder of a new school of art that uses the iconic 1980s puzzle as the medium: "Rubikcubism."The 2005 "Rubik Mona Lisa" was the first in a series of pieces inspired by...
February 24, 2020

Rubik's Cube Mona Lisa fetches 480,000 euros at Paris auction

After far-right President Jair Bolsonaro slashed arts funding, under pressure Brazilian directors have come out fighting at Europe's first major film festival of the year. — AFP
Brazilian directors come out fighting at Berlin film festival
BERLIN — With nearly 20 films on the program and a spot on the jury for acclaimed director Kleber Mendonca Filho, Brazilian cinema is having a moment at the Berlin film festival.After far-right President Jair Bolsonaro slashed arts funding, under pressure Brazilian directors have come out fighting at Europe's first major film festival of the year."It's the best moment Brazilian cinema has ever had, and it is also the exact moment where our local film industry is being dismantled nearly every day," said Mendonca on the opening day of the Berlin festival last week.Fearing the looming cut in subsidies, many Brazilian filmmakers rushed to finish their films, added Berlinale co-director Carlo Chatrian.But he insisted the wealth of Brazilian directors on this year's...
February 24, 2020

Brazilian directors come out fighting at Berlin film festival

Italian fashion icon Prada said on Sunday they have appointed Belgian designer Raf Simons as their co-creative director. — AFP
Raf Simons joins Prada as co-creative director
MILAN, Italy — Italian fashion icon Prada said on Sunday they have appointed Belgian designer Raf Simons as their co-creative director.Prada said Simons, considered one of his generation's most talented designers and a veteran of Dior and Calvin Klein, would take up his post on April 2.Miuccia Prada unveiled the surprise news on the fifth day of a Milan Fashion Week disrupted by a clutch of coronavirus cases barely an hour away from the event."I am not here to announce my retirement to you nor my succession — on the contrary, this is a new breath of fresh air for me, a very exciting new adventure," Prada said."And I'm probably going to have to work even harder than before," she added, looking visibly elated at the prospect of welcoming Simons aboard."We...
February 23, 2020

Raf Simons joins Prada as co-creative director

The Los Angeles-born singer, who only turned 18 in December, is the youngest artist to record a Bond track. — AFP
Eilish breaks record with James Bond theme
LONDON — Teenage pop star Billie Eilish scored another record on Friday as her new single enjoyed the biggest opening week of all time for a James Bond theme in the British charts."No Time To Die" landed straight in at number one, according to the Official Singles Chart, becoming the 18-year-old's first British chart-topper.The single, co-written and produced by the US star and her brother Finneas, earned 90,000 chart sales and 10.6 million streams, making it the biggest opening week for a single so far this year.The ballad has the grungy melancholic feel that has propelled Eilish to star status and caps a remarkable few weeks for the teenager.Last month, Eilish was the breakout star at the Grammys, sweeping five awards including the "big four" prizes: Album of...
February 22, 2020

Eilish breaks record with James Bond theme

The couple will formally step down as senior royals from March 31 and will no longer carry out duties on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II after that date. — AFP
Harry and Meghan to stop using 'royal' brand
LONDON — Prince Harry and his wife Meghan will no longer use the "Sussex Royal" label when they begin their new life outside the royal inner circle in the spring, their spokeswoman said on Friday.The couple will formally step down as senior royals from March 31 and will no longer carry out duties on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II after that date."The Duke and Duchess of Sussex do not intend to use 'SussexRoyal' in any territory post Spring 2020," said the spokeswoman.They will also not use the name for their new non-profit organization, due to be announced in the coming months, she added.The couple currently use the name for their popular Instagram account and a website set up after their shock announcement. They also have made dozens of trademark applications...
February 22, 2020

Harry and Meghan to stop using 'royal' brand

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