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A French nun who recently celebrated her 118th birthday with her traditional port-and-chocolate cocktail is now the world’s oldest known person, following the death announced Monday of a Japanese woman, Kane Tanaka, who was one year her senior. Lucile Randon, known as Sister Andre, was born in southern France on February 11, 1904, when World War I was still a decade away.

As Egyptians mark the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, they are being treated to a blockbuster TV series that celebrates their army marshall turned president, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Fans hail “Al-Ikhtiyar 3” (The Choice 3) for enlightening the masses about Egypt’s turbulent recent history. Critics see it as propaganda by a regime that rules with an iron fist.

As COVID-19 cases reached a record low on April 25, with just two cases reported, Cambodia officially lifted the mask mandate for public outdoor spaces. In an audio address to the nation on April 26, Prime Minister Hun Sen said that following a meeting of the Inter-ministerial Committee to Combat Covid-19 the previous day, the mask mandate has been removed, effective immediately.

Hollywood bosses showcased new “Spider-Man” sequels and brought rap superstar Bad Bunny on stage to kick off a bullish meeting of movie theater industry leaders in Las Vegas on Monday.

Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch’s “TalkTV” launched in Britain on Monday, entering a crowded news market but leveraging his star interviewer’s familiarity with trash-talking former US president Donald Trump.

More than two decades ago, few high-brow readers in China took online literature seriously as the bar for publishing online was so low that anyone could be a writer, not to mention the prevalent melodramatic genres such as romance, fantasy and time travel.

Edoeyen, an online jewellery brand inspired by Khmer art founded in June, 2020 by sisters Edo and Eyen, has partnered with the Smithsonian Museum of Asian Art to sell their pieces in the museum’s gift shop.

Verdant landscapes, stylised portraits of peasant women, curved sculptures – an exhibition in Baghdad is allowing art aficionados to rediscover the pioneers of contemporary Iraqi art. Around 100 items are on display in the capital, returned and restored nearly two decades after they were looted.

India is tapping a new energy source that promises to help clean up smog-choked cities and is already providing a vital revenue stream for poor Indian farmers: truckloads of bovine manure.

Rio de Janeiro’s carnival, a glittering, sequin-studded festival of the flesh, exploded back to life Friday with the first famed samba school parades since Covid-19 started devastating Brazil.