Hungarian gymnast Agnes Keleti, the world's oldest living Olympic champion as well as a Holocaust survivor, is still showing off as she looks forward to turning 100 next month.
-I feel good, but I don't look in the mirror, that's my trick! Then I remain young!- Keleti told AFP in Budapest last month.
A five-times Olympic champion, Keleti, who celebrates her birthday January 9, is also Hungary's most successful gymnast, and one of the most decorated Jewish athletes in history.
While she now has dementia that affects her short-term memory, her feisty spirit remains intact.
Moving in a sprightly manner around her apartment where both her life mementoes and Olympic medals are on display, she joked about not being let perform the full-leg splits anymore.
-I'm told by my caretaker that it's not good for me at this age- she laughed, while leafing through a new book "The Queen of Gymnastics, 100 years of Agnes Keleti" published to mark her centenary birthday.
Keleti's life story, including Olympic glory and Holocaust escape, reads like a gripping Hollywood film script. 
Born in 1921, she won 10 gymnastics medals in all, most won after she turned 30 and was competing against gymnasts half her age, including five golds in Helsinki (1952) and Melbourne (1956).
-I did sport not because it felt good but to see the world- Keleti told AFP in a 2016 interview.
Called up to the national team in 1939, she won her first Hungarian title the next year, but later in 1940 was barred from taking part in any sporting activity due to her Jewish background.
After the Nazi German occupation of Hungary in March 1944, she escaped deportation to a death camp by getting false documents and assuming the identity of a maid girl Piroska Juhasz.
-I stayed alive thanks to Piroska with whom I swapped not only clothes and papers, but also the way she talked- said Keleti, who kept fit while hiding in the countryside by regular running.
Keleti's father and several members of her family were killed in Auschwitz, while her mother and brother were rescued thanks to the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg.
Keleti emigrated to Australia in 1957 a year after Hungary's failed anti-Soviet uprising, before settling in Israel where she married a Hungarian sports teacher Robert Biro in 1959, with whom she later had two children.
After she retired from competition, she worked as a physical education teacher, and became head coach of the Israeli national gymnastics team. 
She was only able to return home to then-communist Hungary -- where she has lived since 2015 -- for the World Athletics championships in 1983.
-It was worth doing something well in life, considering the attention I have received, I get the shivers when I see all the articles written about me- Keleti says.

Keleti: I feel good, but I don't look in the mirror, that's my trick! Then I remain young!

Oldest living Olympic champion Agnes Keleti to turn 100

Berlin's international film festival said Friday it was postponing its February 2021 edition as the coronavirus pandemic continues to take a toll on the global entertainment industry.
Usually Europe's first major cinema showcase of the year, the annual Berlinale, as the event is known, will now take place as a strictly digital event for industry players in March with its competition for the Golden Bear top prize to be held online.
Featured films would be screened for the public in June, the festival said in a statement.
-There is a great desire to meet face-to-face. The current situation does not allow a physical festival in February, at the same time it is important to offer the film industry a market within the first quarter of the year- Berlinale Executive Director Mariette Rissenbeek said. 
-With the change in the festival format in 2021, we will have the chance to protect the health of all guests and to support the restart of the cinema industry.-&nbsp;

Rissenbeek said the June screenings, to take place in open-air and indoor movie houses, would "offer the Berlinale audience the long-awaited community experience of cinema and culture".
Organisers had earlier ruled out a purely online edition of the event -- a route taken by some smaller festivals during the outbreak -- given its popularity with movie lovers in the German capital.
The Berlinale, which ranks with Cannes and Venice among the top European film festivals, prides itself on being the only one of the trio to sell tickets to the public for nearly all screenings.
Germany mothballed all cinemas in the country in early November as part of a shutdown to tame the virus but the restrictions have failed to bring infection numbers down. 
The closures have been extended until at least January 10 and are expected to last through most of the winter.
Alongside the competition for the Golden Bear and screenings of hundreds of new films, the normally 11-day Berlinale also hosts the European Film Market where movie distribution rights are bought and sold.
Moritz Hemminger, deputy head of sales and acquisitions at sales agency ARRI Media, said pushing the Berlinale into the spring wouldn't have a major impact on the festival circuit, even though it would be closer to Cannes, usually held in May.
-Producers were holding back movies over the last months for the return of physical festival editions- he told trade magazine Variety.
-There are many exciting films lined up and ready to be showcased at major festivals next year.-
Venice managed to benefit from a break in high infection levels to take place in September.
But the second wave has had a crippling impact on the global entertainment industry.
The 2020 edition of the Berlinale took place in February before Germany felt the full impact of the virus. The Golden Bear went to an Iranian drama filmed in secret, "There Is No Evil".

Featured films would be screened for the public in June

Usually Europe's first major cinema showcase of the year, the annual Berlinale, as the event is known, will now take place as a strictly digital event for industry players in March

Berlin film fest postponed until March, competition to go online

He kept the beat for one of the world's most iconic bands, has fronted his supergroup for three decades, is a two-time rock hall-of-famer -- and at 80, Ringo Starr is as energetic as ever.
The pandemic has stalled his normally packed touring schedule, but the former Beatle is set to release a quarantine-developed EP as well as a photo memoir about his All Starr Band, which comes out Wednesday.
In 1989, fresh out of rehab, Starr started the band, one of history's longest running live touring groups that has featured a wide array of music luminaries.
Its first edition featured blues star Dr. John, Joe Walsh of the Eagles, and Nils Lofgren and Clarence Clemons, who played with Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band.
-I had recently cleaned up my act, but now I needed to find some way to get that act back out on the road- Starr said.
-In those days, you had those little phone books that were so civilized, and I just started calling people- the drummer and vocalist told AFP in an interview. -It worked out great.-
-Ringo Rocks: 30 Years of the All Stars- which is being sold exclusively by Julien's Auctions -- chronicles the ever-shifting band's history through rare photos and anecdotes from Starr.
-How far out- the artist said from Los Angeles via video chat.
-Thirty years... I didn't sit there and say 'Oh man, I could do this for 30 years.' And it would've been 31 if we didn't have this pandemic!-
Starr had two 2020 tours booked that were grounded by the coronavirus crisis, and his annual birthday bash had to go virtual.
-Some days, it's miserable- the animated percussionist said. 
-I would sit there some days and think, 'Oh I want to go out! I want to hug people!- well, the result of that could be you die. So I didn't do that either.-

Instead, the octogenarian crafted a four-track EP -- "I loved EPs when I was a lad," he said -- at his home studio between April and October this year.
The mini-album entitled "Zoom In" -- "which I thought was appropriate for this day and age; that's all we do!" -- features collaborations with a laundry list of top artists.
Its single "Here's To The Nights" -- out Wednesday in conjunction with the photo memoir -- was penned by songwriter Diane Warren and features a who's who of music including Walsh, Dave Grohl, Sheryl Crow, Lenny Kravitz, and none other than Paul McCartney.
-If he's in town and I'm making a record, I always save a track if I know he's coming in- Starr said of his former bandmate. -He's just an incredible bass player and a beautiful human being.-
The musician called the December 8 anniversary of John Lennon's death "a moment of reflection," saying that as an only child, "I'm blessed... I was in a band."
-I have three brothers who were very close.-
-It's one of those moments- he said of the 40th anniversary of Lennon's shooting, also noting the poignancy that arrives every year on November 29, the day George Harrison died in 2001.

In his well over half-a-century in the music business, one thing has stayed constant for the Liverpool-born, Los Angeles-based artist: he loves life in a band.
-I've always done everything I've done with other musicians- Starr said. 
-When I started, a lot of people were starting, so we learned together, we jammed together, we made mistakes together.-
Not one for the flashy drum solos many other percussionists make their names with, Starr said he prefers to keep the rhythm for his bandmates.
-Some people have done really great solos, but it's just something that didn't appeal to me -- even when I started, when you want to really show off- he said.
-I just wanted to hold. It. Down- he added, emphasizing each syllable.
Starr said musicians involved in making his EP took the necessary health precautions.
-We were all very conscious of the fact that it's mad out there, so we wore masks and stayed quite a bit apart- he said.
-Sometimes it was only five feet, not six- the Beatle known for his quips added with a wink.
-That kept me busy and also I like to paint, so I've got a little room where I can splash paints and it doesn't bother anybody- Starr said. -I'm finding things to keep me moving.-
-And so that's how we're coverin' it, you know?-

Starr had two 2020 tours booked that were grounded by the coronavirus crisis

Ringo Starr, shown here performing at the 50th anniversary celebration of Woodstock in upstate New York in 2019, saw his packed touring schedule grounded by the pandemic

An EP, a book and some paints: Ringo Starr's long and winding self-quarantine

Facebook said Tuesday it will launch its news tab feature in Britain from next year, paying publishers for stories delivered through the world's leading social network.
The arrival of Facebook News in January comes after the service was rolled out in the United States in late 2019 and is part of plans to extend it worldwide, the US company said.
-With Facebook News, we will pay publishers for content that is not already on the platform, help drive new audiences, and bring publishers greater monetisation opportunities- it added. 
Titles covered in the first wave of deals include The Economist, The Guardian, The Independent and the Mirror, and local newspapers the London Evening Standard, Manchester Evening News and the Scotsman.
Lifestyle magazines such as Cosmopolitan, GQ, Vogue and Tatler have also signed up, while there is a video partnership with Channel 4 News.
Facebook's director of news partnerships Jesper Doub said the company was "in active negotiations" to bring the feature to France and Germany.
-We will continue to work with publishers in countries where market conditions and regulatory environments invite this kind of investment and innovation- he added.
Media companies have struggled with dwindling advertising revenue and print sales as content has moved online and become available for free, forcing a host of titles to close.
In April, the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) said the coronavirus pandemic has made the situation worse and called on the British government to impose a windfall tax on global tech giants to help shore up struggling publishers.
NUJ assistant general secretary Seamus Dooley said foreign-based platforms including Facebook generate huge ad revenues in Britain on the back of free news content but pay little domestic tax.
-There's very much common cause between employers and owners that effectively these are platform providers that are eating our lunch- he told AFP.
-They're reliant on the work of media organisations - of journalists, photographers and videographers.-
Last week, Google said it had signed individual agreements on copyright payments with several French newspapers and magazines, after months of wrangling over the sharing of revenues from the display of news in search results.
Agence France-Presse, which along with other media groups has lodged complaints against Google with France's competition regulator, did not sign the accord.
But AFP chief executive Fabrice Fries said he was "optimistic" about improved relations with Google, Facebook and Apple, which also sells a news feature.

Lifestyle magazines such as Cosmopolitan, GQ, Vogue and Tatler have  also signed up

The arrival of Facebook News in UK is planned January

Facebook News to launch in UK next year

With tree-covered slopes that rise to a pointed summit, the mountain overlooking the Bosnian town of Visoko resembles any other ordinary hillside in the Balkan state.
 Yet thousands of yearly visitors - including high-profile stars like Serbian tennis champion Novak Djokovic - don't see it that way.&nbsp;
Despite scientists' efforts to debunk the claims, large numbers of people still believe the hill is part of an ancient man-made pyramid complex with healing powers.
 Djokovic, who is known for his new-age spiritual interests, has made two trips this year, hailing the site as a "paradise on earth."&nbsp;
The mountain is now part of a controversial pyramid park founded by Semir Osmanagic, a 60-year-old self-styled explorer who "discovered" the site just outside of Sarajevo in 2005.
 -I saw this hill covered with fir trees and vegetation, its slopes perfectly oriented towards the cardinal points- Osmanagic, wearing a leather jacket and Indiana Jones-style hat, told AFP on a recent weekend while leading a tour group through the site.&nbsp;&nbsp;
-It was obvious to me that it was not a natural hill but the construction- of a -technologically superior civilisation-, he said, insisting it is the "largest and oldest pyramid ever built".

Archaeologists have long ago disputed this theory as pseudo-science, saying the hill is a natural geological structure.&nbsp; In a letter to Bosnian authorities in 2006, European archaeologists denounced the support given to a "cruel hoax on an unsuspecting public" that "has no place in the world of genuine science".&nbsp;
But this did not prevent Osmanagic, previously a US-based businessman, from carrying out "archaeological excavations" on the hill with hundreds of volunteers from abroad.&nbsp;He bought a piece of surrounding land, which includes a network of tunnels he says emit a curative energy force, and a few years later opened the park through his "Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun" foundation.&nbsp;
Djokovic buzz
Today, the park is buzzing with visitors, who have come in even higher numbers since two recent trips from Djokovic.
 In July and October, Djokovic made pilgrimages to the park and invited "all athletes" to take advantage of the healthy oxygen levels.&nbsp;&nbsp;
-I know there are many doubts and dilemmas about the authenticity (of the place)- he told AFP in October.
But -in order to fully understand what is going on here... you have to come.-&nbsp;
After a quiet spring subdued by the pandemic, weekend crowds are back at the park, consisting mostly of visitors from the region.
 -The beginning of the season was catastrophic, but since Djokovic has been here, it's been a joy.- says Nermin Alihodzic, 47, who sells tourists colourful mini-pyramids and pieces of quartz.&nbsp;
While the government stopped backing the park over a decade ago, local authorities have helped finance the construction of roads, parking lots and other infrastructure to encourage tourists.
 A five euro ($5.94) entry fee for the whole park also includes access to the underground tunnel network which Osmanagic claims emit healing electromagnetic waves.&nbsp;&nbsp; In his tour of the park, Osmanagic takes groups down to the chambers, urging them to hold their hands over a smooth rock and feel the "energy" rising.&nbsp;
Dzenana Halepovic, a 67-year-old from Sarajevo, is a frequent visitor. 
 In the tunnels -I feel good, I breathe well, I feel light. I simply feel like I'm receiving energy there- she said.&nbsp;
Immunity boosterFor Enver Imamovic, a professor emeritus of archaeology at the University of Sarajevo, the project is pure scam. &nbsp;
 The tunnels are likely "remnants of an ancient gold mine" while wedges of stones on the hillside, which believers consider to be the building blocks of the pyramid, are "nothing more than natural geological formations", he told AFP.&nbsp;&nbsp;
-Everything that is said about the pyramids is absolutely unacceptable.-&nbsp;
Founder Osmanagic has also been promoting the site as a place to "boost immunity" during the coronavirus pandemic.
While he insists no cures are guaranteed, he cites other alleged miracles in which people have been healed of ailments like hypertension, diabetes or even cancer after a trip to the underground tunnels.
 In a destitute country with a weak health system whose shortcomings have been exposed by the coronavirus crisis, many are drawn to the hope of alternative medicine.&nbsp;
Emina Kavaz, 53, says she is choosing the pyramids to treat her asthma.
 -I used to come every Saturday to go through the tunnels for between 40 and 60 minutes- she told AFP.&nbsp;&nbsp; -The price... is insignificant compared to the result obtained.-

Osmanagić: It was obvious to me that it was not a natural hill but the construction of a technologically superior civilisation

Novak Djokovic during his visit in Visoko

Bosnian 'energy pyramids' boosted by Djokovic visits

Meghan Markle has revealed she suffered a miscarriage in July this year, writing in the New York Times on Wednesday of the deep grief and loss she endured with her husband Prince Harry.
 The Duchess of Sussex, who married the British prince in 2018, had the couple's first child, Archie, the following year.&nbsp;In the piece in the Times, she wrote that she had just changed her son's diaper when she felt a sharp cramp and fell to the ground.&nbsp; -I knew, as I clutched my firstborn child, that I was losing my second- Markle wrote in the Times piece.&nbsp;
Writing of the "unbearable grief" of miscarrying a child, Markle said it was a conversation that remained "taboo, riddled with (unwarranted) shame, and perpetuating a cycle of solitary mourning."&nbsp; Her highly personal piece comes as she and her husband wage an increasingly public war with some media outlets over their right to privacy.&nbsp;
She claims Associated Newspapers breached her privacy, her data protection rights and copyright by publishing extracts of correspondence with her estranged father, Thomas, before she married Harry.&nbsp; 
Harry and Meghan shocked the British establishment when they announced they were retiring from royal life.&nbsp; 
Their withdrawal in March came after reports she was deeply unhappy with life inside the royal family and fed up with media intrusion.&nbsp; 
The couple, who live with their young son, in California, signed an exclusive deal with the streaming giant Netflix for an undisclosed fee earlier this year.&nbsp; 
They have set up a non-profit organisation to promote education, mental health and well-being.

Markle: I knew, as I clutched my firstborn child, that I was losing my second

The Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle and Prince Harry

Oldest living Olympic champion Agnes Keleti to turn 100

Berlin film fest postponed until March, competition to go online

An EP, a book and some paints: Ringo Starr's long and winding self-quarantine

Facebook News to launch in UK next year

Bosnian 'energy pyramids' boosted by Djokovic visits

Meghan Markle reveals miscarriage in July

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Oldest living Olympic champion Agnes Keleti to turn 100

Berlin film fest postponed until March, competition to go online

An EP, a book and some paints: Ringo Starr's long and winding self-quarantine

Facebook News to launch in UK next year

Bosnian 'energy pyramids' boosted by Djokovic visits

Meghan Markle reveals miscarriage in July