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BTS star Jin finishes South Korean military service

By - Jun 13,2024 - Last updated at Jun 13,2024

BTS superstar Jin (centre) is greeted by bandmates RM (right) and Jimin after being discharged from his mandatory military service (AFP photo)

SEOUL — K-pop megastar Jin from BTS was discharged from his South Korean military service on Wednesday, AFP reporters saw, the first member of the band to complete the mandatory duty, freeing him up to fully resume musical activities.

The seven members of the world’s most popular boy band have been performing their service — which South Korea requires of all men under 30, due to tensions with the nuclear-armed North — with the K-pop juggernaut on a self-described “hiatus” since 2022.

Jin emerged from the gates of his army base in South Korea’s northern Yeoncheon county where he was met by fellow bandmates J-hope, V, RM, Jungkook and Jimin.

RM played the saxophone, belting out the hook of BTS’s mega-hit “Dynamite” while the bandmates hugged and presented Jin with a giant bouquet of flowers.

Fans had hung colourful banners outside the base, with one reading: “Seok-jin you did so well for the last 548 days. We’ll stand by you with our unwavering love,” referring to the star by his full first name.

A giant balloon flew in front with the message: “Worldwide handsome Seok-jin! Congratulations on your discharge.”

Yeoncheon county put up its own banner that read: “BTS Jin, The last year and a half was a joy for us. Yeoncheon will not forget you!”

Fans had been urged not to attend, and there were only a couple of admirers present early Wednesday outside the base.

BTS’s agency HYBE announced Jin’s discharge on Weverse — a superfan social media platform — earlier this week.

“We are excited to bring you the news of Jin’s upcoming military discharge,” it said.

It also “strongly advised” fans to “refrain from the visiting site” citing safety concerts, and added that there would be no special events planned.

WWII veteran, 100, marries sweetheart, 96, in France after D-Day events

By - Jun 12,2024 - Last updated at Jun 12,2024

US WWII veteran Harold Terens, 100, married his 96-year-old sweetheart Jeanne Swerlin (AFP photo)

CARENTAN, France — It might have been the longest wait but on Saturday 100-year-old American World War II veteran Harold Terens married his 96-year-old fiancee in Normandy, just days after being honoured on the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in north-western France.

To the sounds of “I will always love you”, “Ave Maria” and bagpipes, Terens and his sweetheart Jeanne Swerlin said “I do” in the town of Carentan-les-Marais at a ceremony attended by dozens of guests, some wearing military uniforms.

To top off an extraordinary day, the newly wedded couple then attended the state banquet at the Elysee Palace in Paris thrown by President Emmanuel Macron in honour of visiting US leader Joe Biden.

“I waited 96 years to find the right man and now I have a wedding like only a queen and king can have,” Swerlin told AFP before the ceremony in Normandy.

“I feel young again,” Terens said. “It’s the best time of my entire life.”

Terens, who wore a light blue suit, entered the local wedding hall to applause from family and friends.

Dressed in satin pink, Swerlin made her entrance to the sound of Whitney Houston’s “I will always love you.” The bride and groom embraced, swaying with emotion.

“Oui!” Swerlin said in French when asked by the mayor, Jean-Pierre Lhonneur, if she wished to take Terens to be her husband.

Terens and Swerlin, who live in Boca Raton, Florida, tied the knot after commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the June 6, 1944 Normandy landings.

 

‘Dreams of big things’ 

 

“Today Harold chose our country to marry Jeanne. They are among us today. cogratulations to the young couple!” Macron told the pair in his toast to Biden at the state dinner.

The glitzy asembly of guests rose and cheered the couple.

“My religion is love,” Terens told AFP in Normandy. He said he always taught his family to “just love”.

“I never leave my house without saying goodbye and kissing them, always, from the day they are born until today.”

His son Bill Terens said they did not know “if he’d be alive or well enough to travel” to France for the anniversary of the D-Day landings as he regularly did in the past. But Terens said he felt good.

“I want to marry Jeannie,” he also said, according to his son.

“So we all thought it was a little crazy, but we supported him again, and here we are. He has always been a dreamer, he dreams of big things and sometimes he gets them.”

Anne-Marie Ruffier, a 66-year-old local, called the wedding a “unique event”.

“It’s also a way of thanking this man who helped liberate France,” she told AFP.

Pierre Le Goubey, 69, said he “wouldn’t have missed this wedding for the world”.

“It’s a powerful symbol,” he said, adding that in a way the veteran was “marrying France”.

 

‘Unbelievable guy’ 

 

Philip Taubman, Swerlin’s son-in-law, praised the “once-in-a-lifetime” celebration.

“It proves what life is all about,” he said. “Harold was a hero and he made a safer democracy of all the world and this is just the final celebration of his particular life.”

Terens was awarded the French Legion of Honour by Macron in 2019.

“We are very honoured that Mr. Terens has chosen to marry here, in Carentan, where in June 1944 the Allied troops landed on the beaches of Utah and Omaha,” the mayor said.

“We’ll be offering him champagne, of course, but also a gift to thank him for taking part in the liberation of France.”

During the war Terens was also part of a secret mission that took him to Soviet Ukraine via Casablanca, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Cairo, Baghdad and Tehran.

After the war Terens married his first wife, Thelma, with whom he spent 70 years and raised three children until her death in 2018.

In 2021, a friend introduced him to Swerlin, a charismatic woman who had also been widowed, and the two have been inseparable ever since.

“She makes life worth living,” Terens told AFP last month in Florida.

Swerlin said Terens was “an unbelievable guy”.

“He’s handsome — and he’s a good kisser.”

Picasso Museum opens vast online archive

By - Jun 10,2024 - Last updated at Jun 10,2024

In the coming years some 200,000 texts from Picasso’s workshops will also be digitised and uploaded (AFP photo)

PARIS — The Picasso Museum in Paris launched an online portal on Monday, providing access to tens thousands of little-seen photos, artworks and other memorabilia from the iconic artist’s archives.

It comes ahead of a study centre dedicated to Pablo Picasso, due to open later this year near the museum in central Paris for researchers and artists-in-residence.

The digital portal opens up access to the museum’s vast collection of artworks, essays, conferences, podcasts and interviews.

Many have never been accessible to the public, including some 19,000 photos.

In the coming years, some 200,000 texts from Picasso’s workshops will also be digitised and uploaded.

Picasso was born in 1881 in Spain and lived almost all his life in France, where he died in 1973. The family entrusted his archives to the French state in 1992.

Meanwhile, the Paris museum opens a new exhibition on Tuesday, “Picasso: Consuming Images”.

It places dozens of famous works by Picasso alongside the historical masters that inspired him — including Poussin, Rembrandt, Delacroix, Goya and Matisse — and many other images and concepts that he drew from.

“Picasso grew up with a flood of new images and works that he went to see in person in Paris museums,” said curator Cecile Godefroy.

But his absorption of images went way beyond the academic, she added, saying that his fascination with postcards, art magazines, photographs, television images, cinema, comic strips and advertising presaged the torrent of images we consume in the age of social media.

Engaging games to boost brain power

By , - Jun 10,2024 - Last updated at Jun 10,2024

Photo courtesy of Family Flavours magazine

By Dina Halaseh,
Educational Psychologist

Our children’s engagement in play helps them learn and develop many skills including social, emotional and even cognitive skills! Here are some good games to introduce to your children and how they can help!

Connect 4: A classic strategy game that›s easy to learn but offers depth in gameplay. It’s easy for all ages and the strategic element keeps players engaged.

The game encourages critical thinking and planning ahead, making each move critical.

Players take turns dropping coloured discs into a vertical grid with the goal of connecting four of their own discs in a row horizontally, vertically, or diagonally before their opponent does.

This game works on divided attention, logic and reasoning, planning, executive function and problem solving.

Tetris: This is a timeless puzzle game that is simple, yet, addictive. The challenge of fitting falling blocks together to create solid lines while the pace increases, creates a thrilling and rewarding experience.

In Tetris, players manipulate falling shapes by rotating and shifting them to create complete horizontal lines without gaps.

This game works on logic and reasoning, processing speed, planning, long and short-term memory, selective and sustained attention, as well as visual processing.

Squint: This is a fun group game that combines drawing and guessing elements. Players take turns drawing pictures while their teammates try to guess what the drawing represents. But there’s a twist! The drawings must be created using a set of abstract shapes rather than traditional drawing tools. This adds a creative challenge and often results in hilarious interpretations and guesses.

This game works on divided and sustained attention, logic and reasoning, planning, speed, problem solving, sensory motor integration, short term and working memory and visual processing.

Let us spend some fun time together as a family and help boost our brains a little! Hope you enjoy the games on this list with your loved ones.

Sequence: This is a strategic board game that combines elements of card games and traditional board games. Players aim to create rows, columns, or diagonals of five connected markers on the game board by playing cards from their hands and placing markers on corresponding spaces.

This game works on: working memory, logic and reasoning, planning and numerical fluency.

 

Reprinted with permission from Family Flavours magazine

Funny old world: The week’s offbeat news

By - Jun 08,2024 - Last updated at Jun 08,2024

PARIS — From the six-year-old in short trousers who took Washington by storm to why it’s dangerous to mess with Italian mothers... your weekly roundup of offbeat stories from around the world.

 

What a guy! 

 

America has a new rogue political superstar — Guy Rose, the six-year-old son of US Republican John Rose. When the Tennessee congressman stood up in the House of Representatives to rail at a court convicting former president Donald Trump for falsifying business records, his son started sticking out his tongue, pulling faces and mugging for the cameras behind him.

But that was not the end of it. The short-trousered terror later added to his father’s embarrassment when they appeared together on Fox News.

Asked what his father does all day, little Guy — who spent the week in Washington with his dad — shot back, “Boring stuff”.

As his father tried to salvage the situation, saying it was really a “very interesting job — you learn a lot from the constituents you serve...” Guy butted in again: “He’s not telling the truth.”

 

Latin matters 

 

Guy is lucky he is not Italian. A pushy Roman parent went ballistic when her daughter — an A-grade student — only scraped a pass in Latin.

When she discovered her 16-year-old got only five out of 10 in a test she ordered her out of their car on a major motorway on the edge of the Italian capital.

Police found the girl walking on the side of the ring road. Italian newspapers said she had got nine out of 10 in other classes.

 

Filthy lucre 

 

Two American magnet fishing fans have become overnight celebrities after they found $100,000 of dirty money in a safe at the bottom of a pond.

Barbara Agostini and James Kane were trawling a New York pond with magnets on ropes when they struck metaphorical gold. But because the safe was not airtight, much of the money inside was covered in muck.

Fearing it could be the proceeds of crime, the couple took it to the police, but officers washed their hands of the cash.

“The value and authenticity of the alleged currency could not be determined due to the severely disintegrated condition of the property,” the police told AFP.

So Agostini and Kane are now hoping the Treasury in Washington will exchange their water-logged bills for crisp clean currency.

US rules allow for the exchange of damaged banknotes as long as they are not the proceeds of crime.

A Finnish library has forgiven the person who brought a book back 84 years late. But they did have a good excuse — World War II. Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel “Refugees” was due back on December 26, 1939, but in the meantime Stalin’s Soviet army invaded the country.

“The return of the book might not have been the first thing on the borrower’s mind when the due date approached,” Helsinki librarian Heini Strand told AFP.

Even if it was late, “people want to do the right thing. I think that is lovely”, she added.

The book was in such good condition it went straight back on the shelves to be lent out again.

In first, SpaceX’s megarocket Starship succeeds in ocean splashdown

By - Jun 08,2024 - Last updated at Jun 08,2024

Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, both of whom have two previous spaceflights under their belts, blasted off at 10:52am (14:52 GMT) atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas v rocket from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida (AFP photo)

BOCA CHICA, United States — SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket achieved its first ever splashdown during a test flight on Thursday, in a major milestone for the prototype system that may one day send humans to Mars.

Sparks and debris flew off the spaceship as it came down over the Indian Ocean northwest of Australia, dramatic video captured by an onboard camera showed, even as it succeeded in its goal of surviving atmospheric reentry.

“Despite loss of many tiles and a damaged flap, Starship made it all the way to a soft landing in the ocean!” tweeted SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. “Congratulations SpaceX team on an epic achievement!!”

The most powerful rocket ever built blasted off from the company’s Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas at 7:50am (12:50 GMT), before entering orbit and soaring halfway across the globe, in a journey that lasted around an hour and five minutes.

Starship is key to Musk’s vision of colonising the Red Planet and making humanity an interplanetary species, while NASA has contracted a modified version to act as the final vehicle that will take astronauts down to the surface of the Moon under the Artemis programme later this decade.

Three previous attempts have ended in its fiery destruction, all part of what the company says is an acceptable cost in its rapid trial-and-error approach to development.

“The payload for these flight tests is data,” SpaceX said on X, a mantra repeated throughout the flight by the commentary team.

During the last test in March, the spaceship managed to fly for 49 minutes before it was lost as it careened into the atmosphere at around 27,000 kilometres per hour.

Since then SpaceX made several software and hardware upgrades.

On Thursday it also succeeded in the first soft splashdown for the first stage booster called Super Heavy, in the Gulf of Mexico, to massive applause from engineers at mission control in Hawthorne in California.

The cheers grew even louder in the flight’s final minutes. Ground teams whooped and hollered as the upper stage glowed a fiery red during its descent, in footage relayed by SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network.

A piece of flying debris even cracked the camera lens, but the ship ultimately stuck the landing.

“Congratulations SpaceX on Starship’s successful test flight this morning!” NASA chief Bill Nelson wrote on X. “We are another step closer to returning humanity to the Moon through #Artemis — then looking onward to Mars.”

 

Twice as powerful as Saturn V 

 

Designed to eventually be fully reusable, Starship stands 121 metres tall with both stages combined.

Its Super Heavy booster produces 16.7 million pounds (74.3 Meganewtons) of thrust, about twice as powerful as the Saturn V rockets used during the Apollo missions — though later versions should be more powerful still.

SpaceX’s strategy of carrying out tests in the real world rather than in labs has paid off in the past.

Its Falcon 9 rockets have come to be workhorses for NASA and the commercial sector, its Dragon capsule sends astronauts and cargo to the International Space Station, and its Starlink internet satellite constellation now covers dozens of countries.

But the clock is ticking for SpaceX to be ready for NASA’s planned return of astronauts to the Moon in 2026, using a modified Starship as the final vehicle to take astronauts from orbit down to the surface.

To accomplish this, SpaceX will need to first place a primary Starship in orbit, then use multiple “Starship tankers” to fill it up with supercooled fuel for the onward journey — a complex engineering feat that has never before been accomplished.

At least one SpaceX fan has grown tired of waiting. Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa announced this week he has canceled a planned trip around the Moon on Starship with a crew of artists, because he has no idea when it might actually happen.

‘Pretty cool’: US kids discover remains of teen T-Rex

By - Jun 06,2024 - Last updated at Jun 06,2024

WASHINGTON — What did you do for summer vacation? Three pre-teen dinosaur aficionados have the answer of a lifetime: They discovered the remains of a rare juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex in the North Dakota dirt.

Scientists and film makers announced on Tuesday that brothers Liam and Jessin Fisher, age seven and 10 at the time of the find, and their nine-year-old cousin Kaiden Madsen, were walking in the Hell Creek formation of the Badlands in July 2022 when they found a large fossilised leg bone.

“Dad asked ‘What is this?’ and Jessin said, ‘That’s a dinosaur!’” exclaimed young Liam on a video call with his brother, cousin, father Sam Fisher, dinosaur experts and reporters.

They snapped a pic and sent it to a family friend, Vertebrate Paleontologist Tyler Lyson of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, according to a statement.

When Lyson eventually arrived at the site, he brushed off a tooth and quickly realised the enormity of what the fossil hunters uncovered: An “extremely rare” juvenile T-Rex specimen that lived 67 million years ago — and could offer critical clues about how the king of dinosaurs grew up.

“It still gives me goosebumps,” Lyson recalled on the call.

Kaiden’s reaction to learning it was a T-Rex? “This is pretty cool, I can’t believe we just found this.”

The fossilised bones were excavated, placed in giant plaster jackets and lifted by Black Hawk helicopter onto a truck. They were taken to the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, where the public can soon follow progress on the fossil’s preparation in a new discovery lab.

Rather remarkably, the saga is only emerging now, after a documentary crew and renowned scientists coordinated in secret over nearly two years with top natural history museums to present the kids’ discovery.

Paleontologists estimate the “Teen Rex” weighed about 1,630 kilogrammes, measured 7.6 metres from nose to tail, and stood about 10 feet tall — some two-thirds the size of a full grown adult. It was believed to be 13-15 years old when it died.

“It’s remarkable to consider how T. rex might have grown from a kitten-sized hatchling into the adult predator we are familiar with,” Thomas Holtz, a vertebrate paleontologist from the University of Maryland and a renowned T-Rex authority, said in the statement.

A documentary about the discovery debuts June 21 and will roll out to 100 cities in IMAX, 3D and other formats.

“This is the kind of story that documentary film makers dream of capturing,” Co-Director David Clark said in the statement.

As for the kids, Liam and cousin Kaiden said they’ll remain amateur dinosaur sleuths, combing the Badlands for new discoveries.

But Jessin is looking to become a full-time paleontologist.

“It’s been a lifelong dream of mine — probably because I’ve seen the Jurassic Park movie, and finding this” T-Rex fossil, he said.

Meanwhile, Jessin offered sage advice for his fellow youths: “Put down their electronics and just go out hiking”.

Alec Baldwin, facing manslaughter trial, to star in reality show

By - Jun 06,2024 - Last updated at Jun 06,2024

US actor Alec Baldwin (left), wife Hilaria Baldwin (right) and their children attend DreamWorks Animation’s ‘The Boss Baby: Family Business’ premiere at SVA Theatre on June 22, 2021 in New York City (AFP photo)

LOS ANGELES — Alec Baldwin is to star in a reality TV show, the US actor announced on Tuesday, a month before he stands trial for manslaughter over a deadly film set shooting.

The “30 Rock” star and his wife Hilaria said they wanted viewers to see “the ups and downs” of life with their seven children, who range in age between 19 months and 10 years.

“We’re inviting you into our home to experience the ups and downs; the good, the bad, the wild and the crazy,” the couple said on Instagram.

“Home is the place we love to be most. We are the Baldwins, and we’re going to TLC! God help you all,” they added, referring to the channel that will broadcast the fly-on-the-wall show.

The announcement comes just weeks before the 66-year-old faces a jury in New Mexico over the on-set death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

Baldwin, a producer and star of “Rust”, was rehearsing a scene in October 2021 with a loaded Colt .45 when it discharged, killing Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza.

Baldwin has repeatedly denied responsibility, insisting he did not pull the trigger on the gun, which should not have contained a live round.

The actor last month sought to have the charges dismissed, but the application was rejected by the judge in the case.

He faces up to 18 months of incarceration if convicted.

The armourer who loaded the gun, Hannah Gutierrez, was sentenced in April to 18 months’ prison after being convicted of manslaughter.

Baldwin, who memorably portrayed Donald Trump on “Saturday Night Live”, has been largely absent from the screen in the years since Hutchins died.

News of his new show — which is due to hit the airwaves in 2025 — brought a mixed response on social media.

A number of commentators applauded the idea, while others noted the proximity to the trial.

Some said they thought it would be a sanitised version of a wealthy Hollywood star’s life.

“If this is a reality show, you need to acknowledge the people we never see, who take care of your children,” wrote @lee_ann56, asking how many nannies the couple employ.

The Emmy award-winning Baldwin was previously married to actress Kim Basinger, with whom he has a 28-year-old daughter, Ireland Baldwin.

Dior heads to Scotland for latest ‘cruise’ show

By - Jun 05,2024 - Last updated at Jun 05,2024

A model presents a creation for Dior during the 2025 Dior Croisiere (Cruise) fashion show on Monday at Drummond Castle, in Crieff, in Scotland (AFP photo)

CRIEFF, United Kingdom — Dior tapped into Scotland’s traditions and rebellious streak late Monday, presenting its 2025 “cruise” collection, with punk tartan, chain mail and magical ball gowns.

Haute couture has increasingly taken the catwalk on the road to showcase its latest creations, with “cruises” to spectacular locations all over the world.

After Athens, Seville and Mexico, this year Dior plumped for historic Drummond Castle, near Crieff in Perthshire, central Scotland.

Among the audience in the castle’s formal gardens were Dior muses Jennifer Lawrence, Anya Taylor-Joy, Rosamund Pike and Laetitia Casta, with an army of waiters in elegant black kilts in keen attendance.

Models descended the stone stairs from the castle to the sound of bagpipes, disappearing from view behind the manicured hedges and trees.

They appeared as warriors from the bushes, with long braids down their backs, clad in leather, chain mail and flashy breastplates.

Elsewhere, there were magical lace collars, capes, heavy velvet ball gowns and pearl-embroidered corsets.

Some styles were combined, with skirts opening onto thigh-high boots, kilts, shorts, teddys, knee-high socks and punk-inspired leather and silver chokers.

Tartan, Scotland’s most famous fabric, was mostly everywhere — in purple, gold and bright red — giving a grungy feel.

French actress Camille Cottin said Creative Director Maria Grazia Chiuri wove tartan and punk culture “with huge grace”.

“It was magnificent,” she said afterwards.

Art of embroidery

Strong female characters are often present in Chiuri’s collections, and the Scottish show was no exception as she took inspiration from Mary, Queen of Scots.

The tragic heir to the throne of England spent nearly 20 years in captivity before being executed in 1587.

“She spent decades embroidering as a means of comfort and reflection but also to express herself during her 19 years of imprisonment,” Chiuri wrote on Instagram.

The collection as a result featured Scottish emblems such as the unicorn and the thistle.

Dior, which is part of luxury brand LVMH, joined forces with local artisans and designers, notably Samantha McCoach, who founded the brand Le Kilt, to reinterpret the Scottish wardrobe essential.

The show also paid homage to Dior’s founder, Christian Dior, and his love of Scotland and its traditions.

Nearly 70 years ago, he organised a spectacular show at the nearby Gleneagles Hotel, and an evening of dance with high society of the time.

“Cruise” shows in exceptional locations are helping to boost a brand’s image as the luxury industry struggles to bounce back from the COVID-19 pandemic.

LVMH for example saw a two-per cent fall in sales in the first quarter of 2024 compared with the same period last year, with spending hit by inflation globally.

There is also a boost to local tourism.

“To have Dior, an iconic fashion house, come to Perthshire will bring worldwide attention to the region,” Caroline Warburton, from VisitScotland, told AFP.

The winners take it all: ABBA members get royal honours

By - Jun 04,2024 - Last updated at Jun 04,2024

The music group ABBA with Bjorn Ulvaeus, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Agnetha Foltskog and Benny Andersson are given the Royal Vasa Order from Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden (left) and Queen Silvia of Sweden (second left) during a ceremony at Stockholm Royal Palace on May 31 (AFP photo)

STOCKHOLM — Sweden’s king on Friday handed royal orders to the members of iconic pop group ABBA, marking the first time in 50 years the honours have been awarded in the Nordic country.

At a ceremony at the royal palace in Stockholm, King Carl XVI Gustaf presented the Royal Order of Vasa to Benny Andersson, Agnetha Faltskog, Anni-Frid Reuss and Bjorn Ulvaeus, who made a rare public appearance together.

Known for disco hits like “Mamma Mia” (1975), “Dancing Queen” (1976), and “The Winner Takes It All” (1980), the four were honoured for “outstanding achievements in Swedish and international music”.

Sweden stopped awarding royal orders to its own citizens in 1975, as the practice was deemed anachronistic.

The country continued to award royal orders to foreign citizens.

However, the country’s parliament reinstated the practice in 2022 and Friday’s ceremony marked the first time the orders were awarded to Swedes in half a century.

This year also marks the 50th anniversary of ABBA’s 1974 Eurovision Song Contest win with “Waterloo”, which launched the group’s international breakthrough.

With their unique style and catchy melodies, the group personified disco around the globe until they stopped performing in 1982.

ABBA’s popularity was rekindled by the “Mamma Mia” films, which introduced the group’s music to new generations.

The quartet has also returned to the stage through ABBA Voyage, a new album released in 2021, and a permanent show of the same name in London in which they are represented by digital avatars (holograms).

In total, 13 Swedes were honoured for their achievements at the ceremony, including two Nobel Prize winners: geneticist Svante Paabo and French-Swedish physicist Anne L’Huillier.

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