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Britney and her team have started to approach several of her former collaborators to work on new music with her. A music insider said: “It is very early days and Britney isn’t putting any pressure on herself to release an album right away or anything, but her team are putting feelers out about the prospect of new music. “Several people who she feels comfortable working with have been contacted and asked if they would like to work on music with Britney again and everyone seems pretty keen to be involved.

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Fresh as the day they were painted, five spectacular tombs around 4,000 years old have been unearthed in Egypt. The graves were discovered earlier this month in the Saqqara Necropolis, 15 miles south of Cairo. Some are believed to be from the Old Kingdom – spanning roughly 2700BC to 2200BC – while the others are from the First Intermediate Period, lasting a century after. Archeologists found burial shafts, walls decorated with hieroglyphics, figurines and images of sacred animals and afterlife items.

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Australia has returned 29 religious and cultural artefacts to India, among them several stolen or illegally exported from the country, earning thanks from Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a Monday summit. New Delhi has pushed Western governments and museums to identify and return objects of India's "stolen heritage", and hundreds of items from overseas collections have already been repatriated.

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A Paris taxi driver whose Tesla Model 3 crashed in December, killing one person, has filed a legal complaint against the U.S. carmaker, his lawyer said on Sunday. The French government said in the days after the accident that Tesla had told it that there was no immediate indication of a technical fault. Sarah Saldmann said her client had on Friday filed a criminal complaint with public prosecutors in Versailles alleging that Tesla had "put the lives of others in danger". Tesla did not respond to an emailed request for comment.

Source: reuters.com

The incident happened in the small town of Strépy-Bracquegnies, about 30 miles (50km) south of the capital Brussels. The car drove at high-speed into dozens of people who were preparing to take part in a traditional parade on Sunday morning. Around 40 people were injured and several are in a serious condition, the town's mayor said.

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The Supreme Court judge who had ordered messaging app Telegram blocked in Brazil reversed the ruling Sunday, after the tech company complied with an earlier decree to make changes to the platform. "Considering that the (court's requested changes) were fully attended to, I revoke the decision to fully and completely suspend the operation of Telegram in Brazil," Judge Alexandre de Moraes wrote in a document released by the court.

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Ye will not be performing at the Grammys this year. A report published in The Blast said that the musician was told Friday that his act had been pulled from the show, which is set to take place on April 3. A representative for Ye, who changed his name from Kanye West, confirmed the information in The Blast article in an email to the Associated Press. She did not offer additional comment. According to reports, the decision was made in response to his “concerning online behavior.”

 

Silvio Berlusconi has celebrated a 'symbolic wedding' to a woman 53 years his junior. Footage has emerged of Berlusconi, 85, enjoying a lavish 'festival of love' with Marta Fascina, an MP in his Forza Italia party, at a historic property called Villa Gernetto in the town of Lesmo, north of Milan. But the couple still haven't officially tied the knot because of inheritance row over his £5billion fortune.

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A cargo vessel hit a ferry carrying dozens of people along a river outside Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka. Local media reported between 30 and 50 people were on the ferry when the collision occurred in Narayanganj, just outside Dhaka, on Sunday. Rescue workers from the Fire Service and Civil Defence department found the bodies of two children, two women and a man in the water. Another victim died at a hospital.

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Christian Eriksen's return to the Denmark team, nine months after suffering a cardiac arrest playing for his country, will be slightly delayed because he has Covid, the federation announced Sunday. "Unfortunately, Christian Eriksen has tested positive for coronavirus and will therefore not be with the men's team on Monday," the DBU said on Twitter. "It is expected that he will be able to join the training camp during the week" before the two friendly matches against the Netherlands and Serbia on March 26 and 29.

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in a new Instagram post shared last week where she contemplated creating a new fashion trend. 'Tried something new with my fav bandana and my son’s Boston hat… trend worthy? Maybe,' she simply captioned the post. Hundreds of her five million followers flocked to the comment section with questions about her 'super thin' appearance with one fan asking the 41-year-old singer, 'Are you ok???'

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At least one person was killed and 24 others wounded, including children, in a shooting outside a car show in southeast Arkansas. Arkansas State Police said in a news release Sunday that one person was in custody and authorities were searching for others who may have fired into the crowd Saturday evening. Additional information, including conditions of the wounded, wasn’t immediately available. Six kids were brought to Arkansas Children’s Hospital in Little Rock. Most were treated and released.

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Myanmar will resume international passenger flights from April 17, the military said Saturday, lifting a two-year ban on foreign tourists. The Southeast Asian nation closed its borders to visitors in March 2020 at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in an attempt to prevent rising infections. Myanmar was further isolated after a coup last year saw huge protests and a bloody military crackdown on dissent, sending its economy -- including its tourism industry -- into freefall.

Source: france24.com

A lawsuit filed on Friday accuses Google of systemic racial bias against Black employees, saying the search engine company steers them to lower-level jobs, pays them less and denies them opportunities to advance because of their race.

Source: reuters.com

Sri Lanka cancelled exams for millions of school students as the country ran out of printing paper with Colombo short on dollars to finance imports, officials said Saturday. “School principals cannot hold the tests as printers are unable to secure foreign exchange to import necessary paper and ink,” the department of Education of the Western Province said.

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Norway’s prime minister said Saturday that four U.S. soldiers were killed in a plane crash during a NATO exercise unrelated to the Ukraine war. Jonas Gahr Støre tweeted that they were killed in the crash on Friday night. “The soldiers participated in the NATO exercise Cold Response,” he said. The plane was a V-22B Osprey that belongs to the U.S. Marine Corps, Norway’s armed forces said.

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Recumbent Magdalene, an art world ‘sleeping beauty’, was identified in 2002 after it was bought for £5,200. It was one of the last marble sculptures completed by the great Italian artist Antonio Canova before his death in 1822. The sculpture will be auctioned by Christie’s this summer. Its sellers have not been named but are said to be a British couple who bought it to decorate their garden.

Source: theguardian.com

The deaths were the first reported in mainland China since January 2021, and bring the country's total death toll in the pandemic to 4,638. In all, China reported 4,051 new cases on Saturday, down from 4,365 the day before, the health commission said, with more than half of the new cases coming in Jilin.

Source: france24.com