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Prince Harry book gets critical mauling in UK

Prince Harry's memoir "Spare" was on Friday mauled by British media and commentators who called it "vengeful" and "calculated", as Buckingham Palace kept silent on the widely leaked contents.. But there was no official palace comment.

Paris museum numbers recover but still hit by pandemic

With Asian visitors still largely absent, major Paris museums struggled to regain pre-pandemic numbers in 2022, despite a huge recovery from the previous year, official figures showed on Thursday.  . The second half of the year saw stronger figures across the city thanks to blockbuster shows such as an Edvard Munch retrospective, which pulled in a record 600,000 people for the Orsay Museum, even if its overall numbers were down 10 percent on 2019. 

Britain's Harry, a prince at war with his family

Voluntarily exiled in California, Prince Harry is settling scores but his upcoming memoirs, hot on the heels of a tell-all documentary and TV interviews, look set to sound the death knell on his hopes of a family reconciliation. . I would like to have my brother back," Harry said in one promotional TV interview for his memoirs. 

Charlie Hebdo: France's satirical magazine in new controversy

French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is making headlines again by stirring outrage in Iran, demonstrating that it has lost none of its appetite for provocation or its ability to stir up diplomatic problems abroad. . -  Charlie Hebdo has repeatedly caused diplomatic problems abroad for the French government, which has no links with the publication but faces domestic pressure to defend its right to free speech in an officially secular country.

UK drops contentious plan to privatise TV network

The UK government on Thursday abandoned plans to privatise the public-service broadcaster Channel 4 after standing accused of waging a political vendetta against the edgy television network.. But Dorries, and then-prime minister Boris Johnson, were said by critics to have taken personal affront to Channel 4's political broadcasting, which has often been harshly critical of the Conservatives.

New movie turns spotlight on France's forgotten colonial troops

"They made us join up to wage war," said Ndiogou Dieye, 103, casting his memory back more than eight decades to when he and other young Senegalese donned uniforms to fight for distant France.. Sy plays a Senegalese father who voluntarily enlists in the French army in World War I to keep an eye on his son, who has been forced into uniform.

Iggy Pop gets back to his rock roots

From godfather of punk to francophile crooner, Iggy Pop has always made unexpected moves.. Returning to the sound that made his name, surrounded by acolytes, "consecrates Iggy as the godfather," said Desgroux. 

Cardiac arrest of Bills' Hamlin may have been 'perfect storm'

The on-field cardiac arrest suffered by Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin may have been the result of a "perfect storm" of events in which a blow to the chest was combined with a split-second moment of vulnerability during a heartbeat, experts said on Wednesday.. "It's a pretty rare event because it requires the perfect storm where some kind of blunt object has to strike the chest right above the heart in a tiny window of 30 milliseconds" -- a fraction of the time of one heartbeat, he said.