Author: France 24

Lady Gaga rocked Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach on Saturday with a free mega-concert that the Brazilian city said drew about two million fans. Rio officials had expected a turnout for the Gaga show of around 1.6 million people -– which they estimated could bring $100 million into the local economy – but City Hall said later that 2.1 million had attended.

Ahead of their Champions League second leg clash this week, Paris Saint-Germain lost its Ligue 1 match on Monday while Arsenal lost in the Premier League.

As the US and the world mark Donald Trump’s 100 days in office, we look at what the milestone means for business. The US president ran in large part on a pledge to “Make America Wealthy Again”, promising that his tariffs – a vestige of the 19th century, for most economists – would return manufacturing jobs to America and trigger a stock market boom. Can this strategy work? Or is it hurting both the US and the global economy? FRANCE 24’s Charles Pellegrin speaks to Isabel Guzman, the founder of Avenida Advisors and a former administrator of the Small Businesses Administration during…

Gaza’s civil defence agency said Saturday that an overnight Israeli strike on the Khan Yunis refugee camp killed at least 11 people, including three babies up to a year old.

TV critic Dheepthika Laurent speaks to presenter Eve Jackson about this month’s new series including “Dying for Sex” – a bold new series about female sexuality and terminal cancer, starring Michelle Williams. They also look at the new seasons of “The Last of Us”, “Black Mirror”, “The Handmaid’s Tale” and the new French-American ballet drama, “Étoile”.

Gregg Popovich is stepping down as head coach of the San Antonio Spurs after 29 seasons, the team announced Friday, six months after suffering from a stroke. The 76-year-old will take on a new role as president of basketball operations.

PFAS, better known as “forever chemicals”, are ultra-resistant to water and heat – so much so that they are virtually indestructible in nature. These chemicals are everywhere in our daily lives – in clothes, cosmetics and kitchen utensils – and are poisoning us. FRANCE 24’s reporters Cécile Khindria and Juliette Lacharnay went to meet the citizens who are taking on the industrial giants behind PFAS.

This week’s massive power outage in Spain and Portugal has raised questions over whether Europe’s power grid is ready for a surge in demand, given the rapid pace of data centre deployment amid the rise of artificial intelligence. We take a closer look in this edition of Tech 24.

Israel bombed an area near the presidential palace in Damascus early on Friday in its clearest signal yet of hostility toward the Islamist-led Syrian authorities and a preparedness to ramp up military action in the name of Syria’s Druze minority. Analysis by FRANCE 24 Foreign Affairs Commentator, Douglas Herbert.

Award-winning British writer RJ Ellory tells us about his new novel, “The Bell Tower”, which has been translated as “Everglades” in French, and why he chooses to set many of his storylines in the United States. We also discuss the golden age of cinema, the great “Noir” authors and talk about a philosophical question at the heart of his book, which deals with the use of the death penalty for convicted criminals.