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| - Duty Editor: Tom Barfield Tel: +33 7 64.72.67.61 -- TOP STORIES -- + Tens of thousands rally against Myanmar coup + Biden boosts support for LGBTIQ people abroad + Superbowl brings battle of the quarterbacks + For sale: London's thinnest house + Legal wrangle over Britney Spears' life and earnings Myanmar-politics-military,WRAP YANGON Tens of thousands of anti-coup protesters in Myanmar pour back on to the streets, as an internet blackout fails to stifle growing outrage at the military's ouster of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi. 750 words 1100 GMT. Picture. Video US-diplomacy-gay,FOCUS WASHINGTON President Joe Biden has quickly launched a campaign to support LGBTIQ people abroad, putting their rights higher on the US foreign policy agenda than ever before. 850 words moved by Shaun Tandon Amfoot-NFL-SuperBowl TAMPA, Florida Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes go head-to-head in a potential Super Bowl classic that pits the greatest quarterback in NFL history against the pretender to his throne. 750 words moved Lifestyle-Britain-property-offbeat LONDON London's thinnest house -- five floors high but only 5 feet 6 inches (1.6 metres) at its narrowest point -- has gone on sale for £950,000 ($1.3 million, 1.1 million euros). 650 words moved by Callum Paton. Picture. Video US-Entertainment-court-celebrity-BritneySpears,FOCUS NEW YORK The legal agreement barring Britney Spears from managing her own life and finances is now older than the pop star was when the public met her as an effervescent 12-year-old on the Disney Channel -- and controversy over who steers her life is starting to boil. 900 words moved by Maggy Donaldson. File picture -- SPOTLIGHT -- Romania-music-industry-tradition,FOCUS REGHIN, Romania From his factory in the central Romanian city of Reghin, Vasile Gliga has been one of the city's world-famous instrument makers for more than 30 years. 700 words moved by Mihaela Rodina. Picture. Video Britain-NKorea-politics,INTERVIEW LONDON Jihyun Park shares the civic concerns of any other would-be town councillor in Britain, from local education to potholes in the roads. But she is unique in one regard: no other candidate has fled North Korea. 800 words moved by Jitendra Joshi. Picture -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-US-Texas,FOCUS HOUSTON Mary Donegam is almost 90 and says with a chuckle that she does not want to die young, as she gets vaccinated against the coronavirus at a five-lane, drive-through inoculation center which is proving a hit with seniors. 600 words moved by Francois Picard. Picture Health-virus-Germany-hospital,FOCUS AACHEN, Germany When doctor Andreas Bootsveld has to make life-or-death decisions about Covid-19 patients, he is not alone -- as well as consulting his colleagues, he can draw on the advice of a team of specialists by videoconference. 650 words moved by Yann Schreiber. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Vatican-synod-France-women ROME Pope Francis breaks with Catholic tradition to appoint a woman as an undersecretary of the synod of bishops, the first to hold the post with voting rights in a body that studies major questions of doctrine. 250 words moved Poland-history-Jews-WWII-trial,FOCUS WARSAW Two respected Polish historians of the Holocaust face a court verdict on Tuesday in a controversial defamation trial that has raised pointed questions about the freedom to research Poland's troubled past. 650 words by Stanislaw Waszak Hungary-politics-drones-media,FOCUS BUDAPEST Hungarian journalist Gabi Horn was called in by police about her news site's drone footage of a business tycoon's estate, shortly before a new drone law was adopted in January that she is convinced is aimed at hindering such investigations. 750 words 1000 GMT by Peter Murphy. Picture -- MIDDLE EAST -- US-Yemen-conflict-Saudi,Q&A RIYADH President Joe Biden shakes up US policy on Yemen by ending support for Saudi-led offensive operations and de-listing Huthi rebels as a terrorist group, but a swift end to the six-year conflict remains unlikely. 650 words 1100 GMT Palestinians-vote-Israel-conflict,FOCUS JERUSALEM The key Palestinian factions -- Fatah, which controls the West Bank, and the Hamas Islamists in Gaza -- are set to meet in Egypt this week to hammer out details for long-awaiting Palestinian elections. 650 words 1200 GMT by Guillaume Lavallee. File Picture -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-impeachment-trial,ADVANCER WASHINGTON One year after his first impeachment, former president Donald Trump finds himself the subject of an unprecedented second trial beginning Tuesday in the Senate, whose members must determine whether he incited a deadly assault on the US Capitol. 800 words moved by Michael Mathes. File picture Also moved: US-politics-vote-timeline,CHRONO US-politics-impeachment-trial-figures,POINTS US-politics-justice-impeachment-Trump,FOCUS US-politics-justice-impeachment-Trump,INTERVIEW Ecuador-politics-vote QUITO Some 13 million Ecuadorians are eligible to vote in presidential elections in which a socialist and a former banker are vying for leadership of a country besieged by deep economic problems. 500 words moved by Santiago Piedra Silva with Florence Panoussian in Latacunga. Picture Health-virus-US-environment-transport,FOCUS WASHINGTON It's morning rush hour on the Washington Metro. A rail car, which a year ago would have been packed with seated and standing commuters, has just four passengers. 600 words moved by Julie Chabanas. File picture. Graphic -- ASIA -- Pacific-Marshalls-diplomacy MAJURO The Pacific Islands Forum leadership rift widens as the Marshall Islands voices its disapproval with the central political body in a region where the United States and China are competing for influence. 400 words moved Indonesia-flood PEKALONGAN An Indonesian village is inundated by crimson-coloured water after flooding hits a fabric dyeing centre in central Java, sparking a social media frenzy. 200 words moved. Picture -- BUSINESS & TECH -- US-IT-advertising-privacy-Google,FOCUS SAN FRANCISCO Google is weaning itself off user-tracking "cookies" which allow the web giant to deliver personalized ads but which have also raised the hackles of privacy defenders. 650 words moved by Glenn Chapman Health-virus-Britain-transport-freight,FOCUS LONDON Maritime container freight shipping is steaming ahead through the Covid-19 pandemic, boosted by strong demand for Chinese exports and a shortage of vessels, according to industry experts. 550 words moved by Benoit Pelegrin. File Picture -- SPORT -- Tennis-AUS-Open,PREVIEW MELBOURNE, Australia The Australian Open is known as the "Happy Slam" for its convivial atmosphere but the coronavirus has cast dark clouds over this year's build-up and could cause more chaos during the next fortnight. 650 words moved. Picture -- SPACE -- UAE-space-Mars,ADVANCER DUBAI The first Arab space mission, the UAE's "Hope" probe, is expected to reach Mars' orbit on Tuesday, making it the first of three spacecraft to arrive at the Red Planet this month. 700 words 1200 GMT by Dana Moukhallati. Picture. Video Also moving: UAE-space-Mars,FACTS UAE-space-Mars,INTERVIEW DUBAI When Sarah al-Amiri was a child growing up in Abu Dhabi with a fascination for space, her young country seemed light years away from reaching for the stars. 680 words 1200 GMT by Dana Moukhallati. Picture. Video -- CULTURE & ENTERTAINMENT -- Entertainment-France-ballet-television-film,FOCUS PARIS Sadistic teachers and murderous levels of competition: from "Black Swan" to "Tiny Pretty Things" the world of ballet seems a place fit only for psychopaths if its screen incarnations are to be believed. 550 words moved by Rana Moussaoui afp
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