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In the vineyards of France's Anjou region, in the Loire Valley, a ritual takes place every year at the end of the summer. At harvest time, dozens of brave seasonal workers come from far and wide to pick the ripe grapes. Some of them have been regulars for several years and their experience is invaluable to the newcomers.

A South African 'doctor' is arrested after faking his credentials and gaining a large TikTok following. Finally, an Ohio native carves out a 400 lb pumpkin ... in the likeness of Taylor Swift.

Nigeria has submitted a first of its kind, Pidgin language film, 'Mami Wata', hoping it will be entered for a Foreign Language Oscar after picking up several awards including at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Mami Wata, which was shot entirely in black and white, is an exploration and creative reimagination of the mythology of a titular mermaid deity of West African folklore.

The world-renowned Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai has told FRANCE 24 how Israel is now a "traumatised society" after the events of October 7. Likening the plight of Israelis to the American population after 9/11, he said the savage attack on civilians by Hamas is even worse than what happened in the Yom Kippur War of exactly 50 years ago, during which he himself was injured.

The famous French comic strip is celebrating its birthday with a new volume – and for the first time, with a female leading character. Over the past six decades, more than 380 million Asterix comic books have been sold.

For years, neo-Nazis in northern Germany have been trying to turn the village of Jamel into their own little paradise. A husband and wife who are trying to stop them now have to live with police protection.

One year on from the historic wildfires that decimated the woodlands of Gironde in south-western France, the bark beetle is adding insult to injury. Bark beetle larvae usually feed off the sap of dead trees, but after the fires left so many trees weakened, it's been a field day for the insect, which is now proliferating at an alarming rate. It's now a race against time to save what can be saved – to evacuate dead or infected trees from the area, in the hope of protecting their neighbours.

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Nigeria’s commercial capital hosted the 4th edition of ‘Door of Return’ festival, a symbolic annual event where diasporans of African descent were received through the same route that their forefathers were shipped from Africa as slaves.

He's a little Gallic warrior who's a big cultural phenomenon in France. The 40th volume of beloved comic Asterix was released this week. We hear from first-time Asterix author Fabcaro about what the comic books meant to him growing up, as well as fans talking about their favourite characters. We also visit a retrospective of Dutch fashion photographer Viviane Sassen, whose work straddles the worlds of fashion and fine art.

Pakistani professor Sher Ali has been forced to publicly renounce Darwin's theory of evolution, sparking alarm among academics in the Muslim-majority nation.

This week we chat to EMPRS (pronounced Empereurs), a new French collective that mix hip-hop, rock and electro with lyrics in both French and English and whose debut and eponymous album features musicians and actors from across the world. We find out more about them and also look at new releases from The Kills and DJ Shadow, as well as the arrival of Britney Spears's tell-all autobiography "The Woman In Me".