When a judge curtly interrupted Guinea's ex-leader Moussa Dadis Camara during his trial over a 2009 massacre, the former strongman's feebleness was starkly exposed to compatriots who remembered his authoritarian rule.. He seized power with a group of officers in December 2008 immediately after the death of Conte, Guinea's second post-independence president who had ruled autocratically for 24 years.
Townsmen dressed head-to-hoof in shaggy black sheepskin costumes and scaring children -- welcome to Austria's annual Saint Nicholas play awarded UNESCO heritage status.. "We are very proud to have preserved our tradition," said Martin Rainer, 56, who heads the group that organises the play, which won its UNESCO intangible cultural heritage status in 2020.
The Nobel Prize is an institution "for men", literaturelaureate Annie Ernaux of France told AFP on Tuesday in an interview ahead of this weekend's formal awards ceremony.. While she "really had no desire to win prizes", the award had boosted her desire to write, Ernaux said.
The threat of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa's immediate exit from office over a cash-in-sofas scandal has temporarily faded after his party vowed to rally around him at next week's impeachment vote, but his woes are far from over.. Ruling African National Congress (ANC) party lawmakers vowed to close ranks around him at an impeachment vote in parliament next week, but Ramaphosa remains embroiled in the worst scandal of his career that could yet bring him down.
Three appeal judges in London on Tuesday ruled that the former mistress of Spain's ex-king Juan Carlos I could not sue him for harassment in the English courts for the period while he was on the throne.. He challenged the ruling and took the case to the Court of Appeal.
The Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan, best known as the singer of Christmas favourite "Fairytale of New York", has been admitted to hospital, his wife said.. MacGowan's "Fairytale of New York" duet with Kirsty MacColl has regularly topped polls as listeners' favourite Christmas song in Britain and Ireland.
Spain's former king Juan Carlos I had immunity from harassment claims made against him by his former mistress while he was monarch, three Court of Appeal judges in London ruled on Tuesday.. He appealed the decision, and won a partial victory on Tuesday after the three judges agreed he was immune to claims made before 2014.
The Tunisian director of "Under the Fig Trees", which portrays young harvest workers, said she hoped the award-winning drama film would "smash the cliche" that rural women are "miserable and closed".. The young women, sometimes helped by a young man, pick soft ripe figs which are then packaged by older workers, under the orders of a bossy young man representing the traditional patriarchal structure.
An off the cuff tweet by Elon Musk has left Bulgarians over the moon, hoping the world's richest man may be planning to visit the EU's poorest region.. As for a possible visit by the man himself?
Kirstie Alley, the two-time Emmy-winning actor who starred in the hit television sitcom "Cheers", died Monday after a battle with cancer, her family said.. Alley rose to prominence for her role as Rebecca Howe in the NBC sitcom "Cheers" about a Boston bar, for which she received an Emmy for best lead actress in a comedy series in 1991.
