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August 14, 2019
Climate deniers get more media play than scientists: study
GABES, TUNISIA - As soon as the sun is up, people in southern Tunisia rush out to buy a glass or bottle of legmi, a coveted date palm drink that is too delicate to be sold far from the oasis.At 7:00 am, at the busy Ain Slam roundabout in the center of the coastal city of Gabes, bicycles, cars and military vehicles are clustered around three men seated on plastic chairs.Next to them are jugs brimming with the precious juice, a testament to the Gabes saying: "Even if the legmi attracts mosquitoes, people will stick around."Favored particularly during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan for its high sugar content, this drink, typical of Saharan oases, is primarily consumed from March to October.Many Tunisians enjoy legmi for breakfast, such as Akram, who has walked to the roundabout...
August 13, 2019
The 'gift' of Tunisia's delicate date palm drink
ABIDJAN — DJ Arafat, an Ivorian singer with a huge following in francophone Africa, has died after a road accident in Abidjan, the state broadcaster RTI said on Monday."Death of artist DJ Arafat... today at 8 a.m. as a result of a road accident overnight," it tweeted.According to messages and pictures circulating on social media, he had been driving a motorbike and smashed into a car. Critically injured, the singer, 33, was taken to an Abidjan hospital, where he later died.Born in Abidjan in 1986, DJ Arafat — real name Ange Didier Huon — had a massive audience in French-speaking western and central African countries.He issued 11 albums, mainly of "coupe-decale" — a dance music form combining rapid percussion, choppy rhythms with hip hop-style vocals."We are...
August 12, 2019
Leading West African singer DJ Arafat dies in road crash
August 12, 2019
China's Ivy League dreams fuel lucrative admissions industry
CHIANALE, ITALY - Guido Camia can show you how to light fires using just a flintstone, survive on a diet of insects and build a forest shelter.The 37-year-old, who originally trained to be a patisserie chef, now makes a living offering "Neanderthal" survival courses in the Italian Alps.On one of his weekend trips, you can watch him climb rocks and fish from streams barefoot, dressed in animal skins, carrying a spear and looking like something out of "The Flintstones".But Camia's outdoor survival courses also come with an official stamp of approval."For the past five years, my courses have been supervised by Italy's International Survival Federation (FISSS)," he told AFP.Camia says he also gives courses in more traditional attire, but his "passion...
August 11, 2019
Modern cave man offers 'Neanderthal' survival courses in Italy
August 11, 2019
Refugee boats given new life as bags in Berlin
August 10, 2019
Jewels worth 1.6 mn euros recovered after fake princess heist: police
ATHENS — World-renowned Greek sculptor Takis has died aged 93, his foundation said Friday, just as London's Tate Modern museum holds a major show of his work.The poised stalks, colored lights and moving balls of Takis's creations made him a noted figure of the 20th-century "kinetic" art movement along with the US artist Alexander Calder.The Takis Foundation that promotes his work announced his death in a tribute to him on Facebook, without giving any details.It called him "a true pioneer, innovator and legend... A prolific and visionary mind, whose ingenuity, passion and imagination was endless"."Takis explored many artistic and scientific horizons, as well as music and theater, and redefined the boundaries in art," it said.Takis was born Panagiotis...
August 09, 2019
Renowned Greek sculptor Takis dies at 93
August 09, 2019
Trash for tickets on Indonesia's 'plastic bus'
LOS ANGELES, California — Hollywood actor Danny Trejo, known for his tough-guy roles in such films as "Machete," helped rescue a young boy who was trapped in a car that overturned in a Los Angeles traffic collision on Wednesday.Trejo, 75, told television station KABC-TV he was on his way to an auto mechanic in L.A.'s Sylmar neighborhood when he saw a motorist run a red light and crash into another car, which flipped over onto its roof in the intersection.The boy, strapped into his car seat in the back of the car, and his grandmother, who had been driving, were both trapped in the overturned, partially crushed vehicle.Trejo and another bystander - a woman who identified herself as Monica Jackson - teamed up to free the child before emergency personnel arrived on the scene,...
August 09, 2019
Actor Danny Trejo of 'Machete' fame pulls young boy from overturned car
