The Michelin Guide announced Monday the shock decision to knock a star off the Paris restaurant of Guy Savoy, frequently named the best chef in the world. . In November he was named best chef in the world for the sixth year running by La Liste, which aggregates thousands of reviews from around the world.
The United Nations raised around $1.2 billion on Monday to deliver aid this year to millions of people going hungry in war-ravaged Yemen, amid hopes that a fragile truce could foster a lasting peace.. Last year, the UN raised more than $2.2 billion to enable aid agencies to reach nearly 11 million people across the country every month.
The only survivor of three Asiatic cheetah cubs born in captivity was in hospital Monday, leaving Iranians fearing for the life of the endangered animal.. Two other cubs born with him died that same month, but Pirouz survived at a time when only a dozen members of the species were left in the wild.
The United Nations appealed for $4.3 billion on Monday to deliver aid this year to millions of people going hungry in war-ravaged Yemen -- and urged authorities to turn a fragile truce into lasting peace.. Last year, the UN raised more than $2.2 billion to enable aid agencies to reach nearly 11 million people across the country every month.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has bestowed a prestigious award on US actor Steven Seagal for his work on strengthening international "cooperation," according to an official decree released Monday.. He was granted Russian citizenship in 2016, when Putin personally handed a Russian passport to the actor during a televised meeting.
Pope Francis will visit Hungary in April and meet far-right Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the Vatican said Monday, with the Ukraine war and migrants expected to dominate talks.. The pope then received Orban for the first time at the Vatican a few months later, in April 2022.
Paris Fashion Week launched Monday with touches of scandal and grief, as Balenciaga tries to move past recent controversies while Vivienne Westwood and Paco Rabanne hold their first shows since their founders' deaths.. And the first Vivienne Westwood show since the dame's death in December will be held on Saturday.
Italy's coastguard on Monday searched the sea and beaches for bodies following a shipwreck off Calabria, as the death toll rose to 62 and charities cared for children who witnessed loved ones drowning.. The death toll rose Monday to 62, a coast guard official told AFP -- and that number looked likely to increase.
Like thousands of Russians who decided to emigrate after their country invaded Ukraine, Anna Rivina moved to neighbouring Georgia.. Thousands of Russian men have also fled to neighbouring countries including Georgia after President Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilisation in September.
An archaeologist taken hostage while working in Papua New Guinea's remote jungle highlands returned to Australia Monday, as police hunted for his captors. . Marape said freeing the hostages was just the first stage of the police operation and that officers "will not rest" until they hunted down and arrested the gang.
