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We are never going home, by French DJ

We are never going home, by French DJ

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2 min readJul 6, 2026 03:21 PM IST Beating powerhouse Brazil was the start of some iconic celebrations for Norway who have outdone themselves with their simple song of glee. It’s a two-line remix ditty by the aptly titled Streaming artists Futuristic Hitz, though the original ‘We are never going home’ was a 2021 hit by Kungs or French tech house DJ Valentin Brunel. While Erling Braut Haaland led the Row Row Viking Row celebrations, taking on the drum beating to conduct the chant, it was the team cellys inside their New York dressing room that broke into a team song. It’s really just one line said on repeat: “We are never going home whoa oh oh whoa” as they get into a circle and jump around belting it out at full decibel. The red drums aren’t the only piece of nose-making they carry. The team also travels with a red colour suitcase strolley speaker. The song ‘We are never going home’ is a very literal declaration of intent, with Martin Odegaard leading the chants. …

The sister who made Belgium’s Amadou Onana fearless before Senegal

The sister who made Belgium’s Amadou Onana fearless before Senegal

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Amadou Onana’s first memory of Belgium is an inflatable mattress, he wrote in the Players’ Tribune. His mother had brought him and his three-year-old sister from Senegal to Brussels on a Belgian passport inherited through his father, to an apartment with no furniture and no heat, and for the first weeks she slept on a small couch so the two children could have the mattress to themselves. Onana was eleven. Before any of that, in Dakar, Senegal, there was a grandfather. A big brown chair nobody else was allowed to sit in. A terrace room where the old man went to read the Quran or the newspaper, and where Onana, uniquely, was always welcome. Wolof was the first language Onana ever spoke, ahead of French. Senegal never once called him up, not even at youth level. Belgium is the only country that ever asked. Tonight, in Seattle, confirmed in the starting midfield, he plays Senegal for the first time in his career. ALSO READ | Mexico’s Quiñones: Faced racism, nearly joined guerrillas but now national …

SS Rajamouli meets French filmmaker Costa-Gavras as Oscar-winning filmmaker spends 8 hours watching his films in Paris

SS Rajamouli meets French filmmaker Costa-Gavras as Oscar-winning filmmaker spends 8 hours watching his films in Paris

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It’s another proud moment for SS Rajamouli and Indian cinema. The director, whose films RRR and the Baahubali franchise have found audiences across the world, has been honoured with a permanent place at the Cinémathèque Française in Paris. Widely regarded as one of the most important film institutions in the world, it recognised SS Rajamouli’s contribution to cinema in a celebration made even more special by Oscar-winning Greek-French filmmaker Costa-Gavras, who watched his films for nearly eight hours and stayed on for the masterclass. Costa-Gavras spends 8 hours immersed in SS Rajamouli’s cinema. A rare honour at one of cinema’s most respected institutions SS Rajamouli has been given a permanent place at the Cinémathèque Française in Paris, a film archive founded by Henri Langlois in 1936 that has long celebrated the world’s greatest storytellers. The occasion was marked with screenings of RRR (2022), Eega (2012) and Baahubali: The Beginning (2015), as part of a special retrospective celebrating the worldwide rise of Indian cinema. The event was supported by the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne and …

SS Rajamouli’s Varanasi glimpse featuring Mahesh Babu receives whistles and cheers from French audience; watch

SS Rajamouli’s Varanasi glimpse featuring Mahesh Babu receives whistles and cheers from French audience; watch

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After delivering blockbusters such as RRR and the Baahubali franchise, filmmaker SS Rajamouli is now gearing up for his next pan-India spectacle, Varanasi. As part of his Europe tour, Rajamouli showcased his films to audiences in France, where glimpses of Varanasi and Baahubali: The Eternal War Part 1 were screened alongside RRR. The first look at Varanasi, featuring Mahesh Babu, received a thunderous response from the French audience. Mahesh Babu plays the lead in SS Rajamouli’s upcoming epic, Varanasi. French audience reacts to Varanasi glimpse On Friday, the official Instagram handle of Varanasi shared a video capturing the enthusiastic reaction to the film’s glimpse in France. On June 26, RRR was screened at La Cinémathèque Française in Paris. Following the screening, the audience was treated to exclusive glimpses of Varanasi and Baahubali: The Eternal War Part 1. A video from the theatre shows the audience hooting, whistling and applauding loudly as Mahesh Babu appears on screen in the Varanasi glimpse. The applause continued even after the preview ended. The caption accompanying the video read, “In …

Why are French away kits tinged green?

Why are French away kits tinged green?

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2 min readJun 27, 2026 01:58 AM IST Needing to switch up their iconic bleus blue against Norway in their World Cup Group I encounter on Friday night, France have brought one of the most iconic World Cup jerseys to the field at Boston. They may look white, but they radiate pista green. Even as Ousmane Dembele scored a hat-trick, the French magicians had a green halo to their kit. It was the faintest of pista icecream green coloured trimmings on the shirts – the collar, the silhouette hemline bands on the stitch, and the thin lining to the whole shirt which gleamed that shade of green when the sun rays hit it. But the thinking behind the away jersey – which tends to be white – which the French have tinged green is rooted in history, a hat tip to a New York symbol. The green is the green of Statue of Liberty – after the copper frame oxidised over the years, an effect of humidity, rust and dust. Game on! 👊🇳🇴 🇫🇷#FIFAWorldCup — …

Who is Michael Olise – Mbappé’s wingman, as French captain chases Messi’s goal count

Who is Michael Olise – Mbappé’s wingman, as French captain chases Messi’s goal count

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5 min readJun 23, 2026 09:00 AM IST There are 75 players at the 2026 FIFA World Cup who are born in France – representing around 10 nations. Michael Olise, the lynchpin of the French attack, the puppeteer pulling the strings from the right wing, while setting up Kylian Mbappé’s strikes – isn’t one. Olise was born in London. He has been called the ‘today and tomorrow’ of French football by Mbappé, after his assists first helped France steady early nerves and a ponderous first half against Senegal, when the French captain finally scored. Against Iraq in a rain-drenched game, Olise was quicker to get France going, when his pinpoint service to Mbappé took his captain to 15 World Cup goals in his 100th match. Roving on the right, well out of the defensive unit’s peripheral sights, Olise kept pinging in precise passes that the French forwards could convert, with Dembele receiving an Olise assist and scoring the French third in a 3-0 win. ALSO READ | Mbappé approaching Messi’s 18-goal record in World Cup’s …

Jeremy Doku row explodes as French presenter reportedly suspended over childbirth comments

Jeremy Doku row explodes as French presenter reportedly suspended over childbirth comments

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Belgium and Manchester City winger Jeremy Doku has found himself at the centre of an emotional World Cup controversy after a French television presenter criticised his desire to leave the national camp for the birth of his first child. Jeremy Doku has been a centre of discussion in Belgium’s campaign. (IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters) Doku’s wife, Shireen, is expected to give birth in the second week of July, a period that could potentially clash with the latter stages of the FIFA World Cup if Belgium progress deep into the tournament. The 24-year-old has made it clear that, despite the magnitude of the competition, he wants to be present for the birth of his first child. “It depends on when it happens, but it’s my first child, so I would definitely want to be there,” Doku said, explaining the personal dilemma facing him during Belgium’s campaign. The winger also acknowledged the difficult balance between family and football, saying, “Nobody wants to miss the birth of their first child. But I also know that football involves many …

‘Priya mitra Narendra…’: French President Emmanuel Macron’s Hindi farewell message for PM Modi | Watch

‘Priya mitra Narendra…’: French President Emmanuel Macron’s Hindi farewell message for PM Modi | Watch

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French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday delivered a surprise farewell message in Hindi to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the Indian leader wrapped up the final day of his multi-city visit to France. The warm exchange came at the end of Modi’s visit to Paris, the last stop of a France tour that began in Nice before moving to Evian for the G7 summit and the French capital. Emmanuel Macron speaks Hindi to thank PM Modi at end of France visit. (PMO) Macron said in Hindi, “Priya mitra Narendra, mujhe bohot khushi hui aapk Nice, Evian aur Paris mein swagat karke. France aur Bharat ki dosti amar rahe.” (“Dear friend Narendra, I was very happy to welcome you to Nice, Evian and Paris. Long live the friendship between France and India”). The French President then switched to English and added, “I hope it was correct. My dear Narendra Modi, I wanted to thank you so much for your friendship. France loves you. I am so happy you are with so many friends in Paris before …

Melinda French Gates calls Jeffrey Epstein ‘evil’ after Bill Gates’ closed-door Congress hearing

Melinda French Gates calls Jeffrey Epstein ‘evil’ after Bill Gates’ closed-door Congress hearing

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Philanthropist Melinda French Gates described Jeffrey Epstein as “evil” in a new interview published days after her ex-husband, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, testified before Congress about his past connections to the convicted sex offender. Melinda Gates poses for photographers as she arrives for a meeting after a meeting on the sideline of the gender equality conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris, July 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Michel Euler) Speaking to The Guardian in an interview, Melinda reflected on meeting Epstein once and said the experience unsettled her. According to CNN and The Independent, she revealed she later had nightmares after the encounter and struggled emotionally while discussing him during the interview. “Have you ever in your life been around somebody that you just know is evil?” Melinda told The Guardian. She added, “We need to listen to our feelings about people.” At another point in the conversation, she described Epstein as “an abhorrent human being, a horrid man,” while expressing sympathy for his victims. “My heart goes out to the young girls,” she said, according …

Alpha teaser sparks plagiarism debate; fans spot similarities to French film La Femme Nikita and American Sniper

Alpha teaser sparks plagiarism debate; fans spot similarities to French film La Femme Nikita and American Sniper

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The makers of Alia Bhatt and Sharvari-starrer Alpha unveiled the film’s much-awaited teaser on Wednesday, and the promotional video has received a mixed response from fans. Many have even accused the makers of copying scenes from the 1990 French film La Femme Nikita, while others pointed out that the wolf-sheep analogy featured in the teaser resembles one used in the Hollywood classic American Sniper. Fans find Alia Bhatt-starrer Alpha’s scene eerily similar to French film La Femme Nikita’s scene. Alpha scene copied from French film? In the Alpha teaser, Bobby Deol’s character is seen taking his daughter (played by Alia Bhatt), whom he has been training from a young age to be a spy, to a fancy restaurant on the occasion of her 18th birthday. It is at this restaurant that he gives her first mission — to carry out her first kill. The revelation initially leaves Alia’s character disappointed because she believed they were there to celebrate her birthday, but she eventually goes ahead and completes the mission. Fans have now drawn parallels between …