The show, called "Louvre Couture", welcomed its first visitors a day after a stark warning from the director of the famed museum about overcrowding inside the former royal palace.
AFP news Jan 24, 2025
A mix of martial arts and Chinese opera, this traditional dance of "heroes" with ancient roots still lights up parts of Guangdong province ahead of the Lunar New Year.
AFP news Jan 24, 2025
Festival chiefs spoke at length with filmmakers "who lost homes or were displaced" by the fires before deciding to press ahead, said Sundance director Eugene Hernandez.
AFP news Jan 23, 2025
Voting deadlines had to be extended this month, as the US entertainment capital and home city of the Academy Awards was devastated by multiple blazes that have killed more than two dozen people and forced tens of thousands to flee.
AFP news Jan 23, 2025
As night falls in the southern Chinese city of Fuzhou, lanterns -- some of them 10 meters high -- transform Hongguang Lake Park into a fantastical land of orange dragons, majestic sailboats, fish with sparkling turquoise scales and goddesses with angelic faces.
AFP news Jan 22, 2025
Transforming the French capital's most famous museum continues his tradition of using major landmarks as backdrops for his clothes since he began as creative director in 2023.
AFP news Jan 21, 2025
Organisers predict up to 400 million pilgrims will visit the Kumbh Mela, a millennia-old sacred show of Hindu piety and ritual bathing that began Monday and runs for six weeks.
AFP news Jan 20, 2025
An enigmatic artist who turned his hand to arthouse and blockbuster film, television, painting and music, Lynch was considered one of US cinema's great auteurs.
AFP news Jan 17, 2025
For years TikTok has been an integral tool for most musicians, a jump-off point for artists looking to break out and an essential promotional platform for established musicians.
AFP news Jan 17, 2025
The 53-year-old victim told France's TF1 channel she believed she was in a romantic relationship with Pitt, leading her to divorce her husband and transfer 830,000 euros ($850,000) to the scammers.
AFP news Jan 16, 2025
Khan, 54, who has appeared in more than 70 movies and television series, is married to top star Kareena Kapoor.
AFP news Jan 16, 2025
Millions of people are expected to attend the Kumbh Mela festival in northern India, a six-week-long Hindu celebration of prayer and bathing that began before dawn on Monday.
AFP news Jan 15, 2025
Millions of Hindu pilgrims are gathering in India to bathe in sacred waters for the six-week-long Kumbh Mela festival -- from the very old to babies, cave-dwelling monks to science teachers.
AFP news Jan 14, 2025
The millennia-old Kumbh Mela, a show of religious piety and ritual bathing -- and a logistical challenge of staggering proportions -- is held at the site where the Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati rivers meet.
AFP news Jan 13, 2025
Actors, crew, writers and producers have lost their homes; film and television productions have been temporarily halted; and calls are mounting for Hollywood's award season to be canceled.
AFP news Jan 13, 2025
Pilgrims will come from across India and beyond to take part in elaborate rituals, prayers and religious processions with elephants, as well as horse-back parades and chariots.
AFP news Jan 10, 2025
The procession to the Philippine capital's Quiapo Church, which started before dawn after an open-air mass, was expected to swell to more than two million participants from across the heavily Catholic country, church officials said.
AFP news Jan 09, 2025
French director Jacques Audiard's Mexico-set "Emilia Perez" took four prizes, including best comedy or musical film, while "The Brutalist" was named best drama and also picked up best actor for Adrien Brody, who plays a Hungarian Holocaust survivor.
AFP news Jan 06, 2025
The front-page features a cartoon celebrating the atheist paper's existence with the caption "Indestructible!", while four inside pages show the results of a caricature contest to mock God and religious leaders.
AFP news Jan 06, 2025
Jacques Audiard's genre-defying film earned 10 nominations, the most ever for a musical or comedy film, including for star transgender actress Karla Sofia Gascon, who plays the title character, as well as co-stars Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldana.
AFP news Jan 03, 2025
Narenjestan, a neighborhood characterized by crumbling, uninhabited houses, is nestled in Shiraz, a southern city celebrated for its historic architecture, lush gardens and revered poets.
AFP news Jan 03, 2025
The anniversary of the shocking attack on freedom of expression is being used by the atheist publication to send a message of defiance to the extremists who burst into its offices on January 7, 2015, then fled shouting they had "killed Charlie Hebdo".
AFP news Jan 03, 2025
US copyright law expires after 95 years for books, films and other works of art, while sound recordings from 1924 will also be copyright-free.
AFP news Jan 01, 2025
Jolie's attorney James Simon confirmed the settlement to the publication, saying in a statement that Jolie was "focused on finding peace and healing for their family."
AFP news Dec 31, 2024
Calabar carnival, known as "Africa's Biggest Street Party", is the highpoint of a month of festivities that began with the switching on of the lights on a 12-metre (40-foot) Christmas tree.
AFP news Dec 30, 2024
He used his traditional "Urbi et Orbi" ("to the city and the world") message to the world's 1.4 billion Catholics to call for talks for a just peace in Ukraine as the country was pummeled by 170 Russian missiles and drones on Christmas morning.
AFP news Dec 26, 2024
Fans of Japanese manga and anime cartoons have often criticized foreign adaptations that are unfaithful to the original material.
AFP news Dec 25, 2024
At Saint Peter's Basilica, Francis used his Christmas Eve mass to urge Christians to think "of the wars, of the machine-gunned children, of the bombs on schools or hospitals" as this year's Christmas once again takes place under the shadow of Israel's war on Hamas and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
AFP news Dec 25, 2024
This month sees the release of the second season of "Squid Game", a dystopian vision of South Korea where desperate people compete in deadly versions of traditional children's games for a massive cash prize.
AFP news Dec 24, 2024
Imposing the limit, which might later be modified, will "allow everyone to better enjoy the fountain, without crowds or confusion", Roberto Gualtieri told journalists in front of the famous landmark.
AFP news Dec 23, 2024
