Britain's Marshall Amplification, legendary maker of guitar amps used by rock icons including Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain, agreed Thursday to a takeover from Swedish speaker giant Zound Industries.. The price was "not disclosed" but the new group's headquarters "will be in Stockholm", a Zound spokesman told AFP. Stockholm-based Zound produces wireless speakers and headphones, including under the Marshall name.
Humphrey Bogart, Michael Jackson and Al Capone had one thing in common.
Residents of Paris are set to vote on Sunday on whether to banish electric scooters for rent from the streets of the French capital, in what would be a world-first for a major city.. - Watched abroad - Paris residents have been invited to cast their ballots on Sunday, but they must be on the electoral lists and have to travel physically to one of 21 voting centres set up around the capital.
Deep in the vast La Sante prison in Paris, law student Morgane is discussing the classic novel "The Outsider" by Albert Camus with one of the prisoners.. La Sante, which was recently renovated, could provide an example.
Half-paralysed from birth, partially sighted and now losing control of the limbs that still move, 43-year-old Lydie Imhoff is seeking an escape from life. . The premature birth left her paralysed down the entire left side of her body.
Shunning his smartphone for a "dumb" one changed the way Jose Briones engages with the world -- and he likes it that way.. Briones is far from alone in reconnecting with the analog world by relying less on finding life's solutions via the internet on his phone.
Ralph Norman's life was changed forever almost 13 years ago when a stray bullet left him paralyzed, launching him into a world of depression and fears of stigma as part of the ever-growing list of US victims of gun violence.. "Until the last two years, I have never told I was shot by a bullet.
A British university museum has agreed to return a 19th-century painting by French artist Gustave Courbet, which was seized by the Nazis, to the descendants of its original Jewish owner.. Courbet, who died in 1877, was the leader of the Realist movement in French art and responsible for "L'Origine du monde", considered the most scandalous painting of the 19th century for its depiction of a woman's genitalia.
France increased the minimum age for using an electric scooter from 12 to 14 on Wednesday ahead of a weekend vote in Paris on whether to ban rental of the devices.. - Beaune expects voters in Paris to ban the rental devices, while operators are also privately fearful of a negative result.
The US drug regulator announced Wednesday that Narcan, the treatment which reverses overdoses, can be distributed without prescription, a move that comes as the country battles an acute opioid addiction crisis.. The FDA said they moved to address to mounting toll from opioid use, especially the synthetic and relatively easily made fentanyl, which has in the past five years increasingly replaced heroin and prescription pain killers as the main drug used by people addicted to opioids.
