Hundreds of hip-shaking and wig-wearing Elvis Presley fans on Thursday began their annual pilgrimage to the Elvis Festival in the Australian outback, the world's largest tribute to the iconic musician. Revellers in their sequin-encrusted jumpsuits danced to several of the King's biggest hits at Sydney's Central railway terminal before catching the 'Elvis Express' to the rural town of Parkes, 357 km (222 miles) westward. FILE PHOTO: An Elvis Presley impersonator performs at Sydney Central Railway Station before departing for the Parkes Elvis Festival, in Sydney, Australia, January 5, 2023. REUTERS/Jaimi Joy Passengers on the six-hour train trip will be treated to a steady stream of Elvis-themed entertainment, with tribute artists belting out the King's biggest hits along the journ...
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France unveils its pavilion for the Osaka 2025 World Expo The France Pavilion for the Osaka 2025 World Expo was unveiled on Tuesday, 9 January, in the halls of the French Foreign Ministry on the Quai d’Orsay, Paris, under the esteemed patronage of the President of the French Republic. The Expo will be held from 13 April to 13 October 2025. Its theme is “Designing tomorrow’s society, imagining our lives in the future”. Olivier Becht, French Minister of State with Responsibility for Foreign Trade, Attractiveness and French People Overseas, and Jacques Maire, Commissioner General for France Osaka 2025 and Chairman of the Compagnie Française des Expositions (French Exhibition Company (COFREX)) introduced this presentation, unveiling the pavilion’s architecture, its guiding theme and the...
Read MoreOn the occasion of the sixty-second anniversary of the Liberation of Goa, Goa Tourism has announced the launch of a ground breaking model for regenerative tourism. This innovative approach aims to redefine the tourism industry in India by promoting environmental restoration, cultural preservation, and community empowerment by means of the four paths of spirituality, indigeneity, civilisational and cultural nationalism and conscious tourism. Aligning itself to the values and aspirations of the famous Manila Declaration of World Tourism of 1980 and the more recent G20 tourism ministers working group meet in Goa that came up with the Goa roadmap for tourism as a vehicle for achieving the sustainable development goals, the Department of Tourism in Goa promises to transform the state into a...
Read MoreAstronomers have found a direct link between the explosive deaths of massive stars and the formation of the most compact and enigmatic objects in the Universe — black holes and neutron stars. With the help of the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) and ESO’s New Technology Telescope (NTT), two teams were able to observe the aftermath of a supernova explosion in a nearby galaxy, finding evidence for the mysterious compact object it left behind. When massive stars reach the end of their lives, they collapse under their own gravity so rapidly that a violent explosion known as a supernova ensues. Astronomers believe that, after all the excitement of the explosion, what is left is the ultra-dense core, or compact remnant, of the star. Depending on how massive th...
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