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Paris Jackson and Prince Jackson, children of singer Michael Jackson, honoured their late father on Monday by introducing a performance from MJ: The Musical, which was nominated for 10 Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Actor. Following their appearance at the 75th Tony Awards at New York City's Radio City Music Hall, fans of Michael Jackson could not get over how his kids looked all grown up. Read more: Paris Jackson seen at Grammys 2017, eight years after dad Michael Jackson’s deathAt the event, Paris, 24,…

Paris. The city of lights, the Eiffel tower, the Louvre, the Notre Dame, the Champs-Elysees, the Arc de Triomphe, and Roland Garros. As you may know if you follow tennis, this is one of only four yearly Grand Slam tournaments, and the only one of the bunch that features a clay court. Thus, it’s rather unique, nicely fitting the city it’s set in. What does any of this have to do with smartphones, you may wonder? Well, Oppo has been a premium partner of Roland Garros for three years now and it’s recently announced that…

Traffic in Paris, France, on May 12, 2020. The European Parliament now supports the European Commission's goal of a 100% cut in emissions from new passenger cars and vans by 2035.Ludovic Marin | AFP | Getty ImagesEuropean lawmakers have voted to ban the sale of new diesel and gasoline cars and vans in the EU from 2035, representing a significant shot in the arm to the region's ambitious green goals.On Wednesday, 339 MEPs in the European Parliament voted in favor of the plans, which had been proposed by the European…

The Overwatch League has its first official team relocation. The Paris Eternal, one of the League’s two European teams, will move to Las Vegas for the 2023 season. Rumors of a potential relocation started after an eagle-eyed fan noticed that DM-Esports, the company that owns the Eternal and its Call of Duty League sister team, Paris Legion, filed trademarks for Vegas Eternal and Vegas Legion. Shortly after that, both teams confirmed the rumors were true. This is technically and also not technically the Overwatch…

Over the last few years, we’ve seen more and more new kinds of aviation vehicles come on the market, from flyboards to flying motorbikes to eVTOLs. So when we saw a video of a hoverboard being flown in Paris this week, we just knew we had to share it with you.  What’s a better fuck you to city traffic than whizzing through the air above it? A video on YouTube by Omni Hoverboard shows a man flying the hovercraft, using a handheld device to steer, over a large…

Here is a film about a very complicated and painful kind of coming of age, or maybe a meditation on “coming of age” as something that never actually happens; it also examines the illusory dividing line between childhood and adulthood, innocence and experience, present and past.A son remembers his single mother: her wayward passions, her boyfriends, her yearning unhappiness – which he can see now but couldn’t then. He and his brother experienced the toughest of upbringings with her, as immigrants from Ivory Coast in 1990s…

Image via Disney To paraphrase the great Orson Welles, “Ahh, the French Disneyland has always been celebrated for its excellence.” It’s located in the city of Paris, whose Left Bank has long been famous for incubating jazz, authors, and philosophers, whose Notre Dame cathedral and Eiffel Tower are world-renowned as masterworks of architecture, whose New Wave filmmakers Francois Truffaut and Agnes Varda redefined the language of cinema, and whose Louvre Museum is considered by many to be the finest collection of…

Only two of the world’s 12 top automakers plan to make enough electric vehicles by 2030 to stay in step with the Paris Agreement climate goals, experts said. Globally, more than half of all new vehicles coming off of production lines in 2029 would need to be electric for the sector to be compliant with the goal of capping global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, according to Influence Map, a research NGO that evaluates corporate climate goals and policies. At the same time, 11 of the 12 carmakers…

This striking, high-resolution image of the Arc de Triomphe, in Paris, was captured on April 9, 2022, by Planet SkySat – a fleet of satellites that have just joined ESA’s Third Party Mission Program. Credit: Planet SkySatThis spectacular, high-resolution image of the Arc de Triomphe, in Paris, was captured by Planet SkySat – a fleet of satellites that have just joined ESA’s Third Party Mission Program in April 2022.The Arc de Triomphe, or in full Arc de Triomphe de l’Étoile, is one of the world’s best-known commemorative…

Backstreet Boys have added three new shows to their upcoming European tour as part of their huge DNA World Tour. The new shows will take place in Paris (8th October 2022), Manchester (8th November 2022) and Antwerp (10th November 2022). Tickets for the additional shows go on general sale Friday 13th May at 10am local time. Backstreet Army Fan Club members can access pre-sale tickets ahead of the general on sale on Wednesday 11th May – for more information visit https://backstreetboys.com/fan-club/.  Produced…