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ABBA fans streamed into a concert hall in east London for the opening night of 'ABBA Voyage', the Swedish supergroup's digital avatar show.

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The First Art Newspaper on the Net   by Paul Sullivan (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- British artist Damien Hirst, best known for putting a shark in a tank of formaldehyde, has gotten on the NFT bandwagon. NFTs, or nonfungible tokens, rely on blockchain technology to designate an official copy of a piece of digital media that would otherwise be cheap or free. Hirst is selling a collection of 10,000 NFTs, each of which corresponds to a physical dot painting, for $2,000 each. A year from now, the collecto...

Splash of colour: UK beach huts brighten pandemic gloom People walk along the promenade in front of beach huts at Walton-on-the-Naze, in southeast England on July 15, 2021. Brightly painted wooden beach huts line Englands coastline and have enjoyed a boom during the pandemic, as people rediscover seaside breaks close to home. Justin TALLIS / AFP. by Anna Malpas (AFP) .- In her yellow-and-white striped beach hut, Melanie Whitehead boils the kettle for a cup of tea and sits gazing out over the No...

He never takes a taxi if he doesn’t know the driver. It is unthinkable for him to get on a bus. He lives outside Dakar, the capital of Senegal, in a small village where he feels safer. Yet his house once was burnt down. Sometimes he is assaulted. He doesnt want to hide he is gay but sometimes has to live on the run because of threats. Although he does not want anonymity, we cannot publish his name for fear of further endangering his life. This is the life of a gay man in Senegal, where since ...

With revelations of suicidal thoughts, a racist relative and an heir-to-the-throne trapped by tradition, the sit-down with Oprah Winfrey by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex was the most startling since Princess Diana's bombshell revelations in 1995.

“Umukenyezi”. That’s a word Burundian men usually use to describe their ideal woman: “the one who ties her loincloth on thorns and walks without flinching and without the outside world noticing her pain”, as it literally translates from the local language Kirundi. It serves them as a metaphor of what they expect from a wife: a woman who carries the burden of marriage with her head held high and her mouth shut. And the husband is supposed to be an “umushingantahe”, or “the one wh...