Michelle Obama made a surprise appearance on the Grammys stage Sunday to deliver a message about music and women's empowerment alongside superstars Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, host Alicia Keys and actress Jada Pinkett-Smith. "Music shows us that all of it matters -- every story within every voice, every note within every song," said the former [...]
Single ladies and gents are invited to have a bit of fun and participate in an auction for a Valentine’s Day date – all for a good cause. Gran Kaz, an entertainment centre, is this year joining forces with ‘Make a Child Smile’ to host a charity auction. ‘Make a Child Smile’ is a community-driven [...]
Desperately needed aid being stockpiled at Venezuela's door is at the heart of a political duel between the two men fighting to lead the oil-rich nation: Juan Guaido and Nicolas Maduro. Guaido, recognized as Venezuela's interim president by around 50 countries, has pressed the all-critical military to allow the mostly American humanitarian aid to reach [...]
Good planning and making sacrifices are two reasons that Seychelles’ longest operating nightclub has stayed open for over four decades, the manager told SNA. Barrel Bar and Nightclub, well known locally for its good reggae music, has been open for 41 years. SNA met with its manager, Antoine Lablache, to learn more about what has [...]
Thailand's powerful King Maha Vajiralongkorn late Friday described an unprecedented move to make his older sister Princess Ubolratana prime minister as "highly inappropriate" and against "royal traditions". Ubolratana, 67, the older sister of Vajiralongkorn, was announced hours earlier as a candidate in the upcoming elections for the Thai Raksa Chart party, which is steered by [...]
The Islands Development Company, IDC, says it will build new hotels and villas on Seychelles’ outer islands as part of expanded tourism offerings. Tourists will soon have the ability to essentially occupy an entire tropical island, one that will have only one villa on it. IDC sees big potential profits. For the period 2017-2018, the [...]
Nigeria's military was on Thursday told to remain impartial in upcoming elections, as the main parties traded accusations and tensions mounted about possible violence and vote-rigging. Defence spokesman John Agim told reporters the armed forces reaffirmed "its neutrality, impartiality and strict adherence to professional conduct" before, during and after the vote. He promised "zero tolerance [...]
The Seychelles’ diverse birdlife has been captured in a book written by a young Italian, after the author visited the island nation last year, a trip made possible through the help of the Seychelles Tourism Board (STB). Titled “Seychelles Travel Book – A Young Ornithologist’s Travel Journal” -- the book is the third published work [...]
France took the exceptional step of recalling its envoy to Rome on Thursday to protest a series of attacks from the Italian government which it described as "unprecedented" since World War II. France's foreign ministry recalled its ambassador to Rome for consultations after a series of increasingly personal criticisms of President Emmanuel Macron by Italy's [...]
Investigators recovered a body from the wreckage of a plane carrying Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala in the Channel and transported it to Britain on Thursday for identification. Britain's Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) also said that bad weather meant they were not able to recover the plane and it was therefore closing down the operation. [...]
