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Glasgow (AFP) – Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is celebrating British fashion trailblazer Mary Quant, long credited as a pioneer of the miniskirt, as her colourful and daring 1960s designs take centre stage in an exhibition. “She introduced such a revolutionary attitude to clothes – garments that the young could run, jump, leap onto a bus, go dancing – they didn’t have to dress like their mothers anymore, which, of course, they had to do in the days of post-war austerity,” former co-director of Mary Quant Limited tells AFP.

Cannes (France) (AFP) – The cast and crew of “The Zone of Interest” by British director Jonathan Glazer walk the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival. The filmmaker returns with a fourth feature film, a chilling portrait of Auschwitz commander Rudolf Höss and his family, tasting the pleasures of life in their house adjoining the death camp.

Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Yevgenia can barely look at her brother’s photo a year after Russia captured him and over 2,000 other fighters in the siege of the Azovstal plant. She fears she hasn’t done enough to bring him home. Families like hers have used protest, political pressure and their own pain to battle for their loved ones’ return since the siege in the port city of Mariupol, which came to symbolise Ukrainian resistance.

Xian (China) (AFP) – Xi Jinping pledges 26 billion yuan ($3.7 billion) in “financing support and free assistance” to Central Asia as he wraps up a landmark summit with heads of state from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan in Xi’an in northern China.

A life-size Ferrari built with over 380,000 Lego bricks is unveiled to visitors in Denmark, at an amusement park dedicated to the famous toy. The car took almost a year to be built with the help of engineers from the luxury sports car company.

Kathmandu (AFP) – British climber Kenton Cool arrives in Kathmandu after successfully climbing Mount Everest for the 17th time, extending his own record for the most summits on the world’s highest mountain by a non-Nepali.