FRANCE: The Prime Minister and presidential candidate, Mr Lionel Jospin, is campaigning on the French Caribbean island of Martinique. "That is why I advocate a more streamlined fiscal regime," he says ...

With Sandie Shaw's 'Puppet On A String' back in the charts via an homage-paying sample, we look back at the song that gave the United Kingdom its very first victory at the Eurovision Song Contest. If ...

One of the writers behind Sandie Shaw’s Puppet On A String has given the thumbs up to former Little Mix star Jade Thirlwall’s use of the song on her debut solo single. Phil Coulter co-wrote the hit ...

A mural in Avignon, France with an antisemitic depiction of French President Emmanuel Macron as a puppet being manipulated with his strings by Jewish advisor Jacques Attali is set to be covered up ...

Theatergoers to the contemporary puppet show, Star Fish, will be taken on a whimsical journey through this creative collaboration between artists from China and France. Inspired by the delightful 2018 ...

Jade Thirlwall has dug up a real buried treasure while looking back at the year she’s had since launching her solo career, ahead of the long-awaited release of her new album. On Tuesday night, the ...

PUPPETS HAVE long been associated with children. The classic Punch and Judy is still going strong, though its violent overtones may be somewhat dated today. Rainbow, Boscoand Sootyare familiar to an ...

I was always curious and objectionable about the use of the terms “My Lord” and “Your Worship” in the Supreme Court. Until it dawned on me that a possible reason for the use of such terms was to ...

Phil Coulter co-wrote the hit with Bill Martin, eventually scoring the UK its first of five wins at the Eurovision Song Contest back in 1967. Last week, Jade debuted her new song Angel Of My Dreams, ...

Scenes from Star Fish, which will be staged in Beijing on Sept 6, the opening show of the upcoming 2024 Beijing International Puppet Festival. ZOU HONG/CHINA DAILY Sino-French production aims to ...