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‘The Power of the Dog’ leads Oscar nominations with 12
Jane Campion’s gothic Western “The Power of the Dog” led the Oscars nominations yesterday, fending off a crowded field of movies from a year in which Covid-weary audiences slowly headed back into movie theaters.The movie about a repressed 1920s cattle rancher in Montana released by Netflix earned 12 nods ahead of next month’s Oscars gala, including best director-making Campion the first female auteur nominated twice in Academy Award...
Iranian women wear prisoner outfits as they dine at restaurant-prison ‘Cell 16’.
Iran ‘jail restaurant’ aims to free bad debt inmates
Two Iranian ex-prisoners have opened a successful “jail restaurant” to help raise funds to free convicts languishing behind bars for unpaid debts. A storefront picture of their “Cell 16” diner in eastern Tehran shows a frustrated prisoner holding a chicken leg in one hand and trying with the other to bend the bars of his cell to escape. The idea of the restaurant was hatched in prison. “I met my partner while we were in police...
In this Gaurav Sharma, superfan of late Bollywood playback singer Lata†Mangeshkar, poses for pictures during an interview with AFP at his home museum where he has meticulously catalogued thousands of compact discs, films and books featuring the singer, in Meerut. — AFP
‘Nightingale of India’ legacy lives on at superfan’s museum
Beloved Bollywood superstar Lata Mangeshkar’s legacy has been kept alive at a home museum in India curated by one of the much-mourned singer’s biggest admirers. Mangeshkar was known as the “Nightingale of India” and her high-pitched melodies were an instantly recognizable feature of the country’s cinema, with her work appearing in more than 1,000 films. The 92-year-old died Sunday and her body was cremated later that day in a Mumbai...
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End of the road in Colombia for Escobar’s ‘cocaine’ hippos?
More than 100 African hippos descended from fewer than a handful imported as exotic pets by drug lord Pablo Escobar, face an uncertain future in Colombia. After the government added Escobar’s so-called “cocaine” hippos Friday to a list of “introduced, invasive species,” experts say killing them may be the only viable option. From the few individuals once housed at Escobar’s Hacienda Napoles estate, the hippos’ numbers have...
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Hit Aussie show ‘Neighbors’ faces the axe
The Australian soap opera that helped launch the careers of Kylie Minogue, Margot Robbie and Russell Crowe faced an uncertain future Monday, with ‘Neighbors’ finding few friends in the television industry. After almost 9,000 episodes, the Melbourne-based show is struggling to find a broadcaster in Britain — where it has enjoyed a cult following for the past 36 years. Current UK broadcaster Channel 5 will not carry the program after June...
A cook prepares arepas in the kitchen of the Arepa Lady restaurant in the Queens borough of New York City.
NY’s Queens borough offers a world of flavors, even amid pandemic
Across ethnically rich New York, you can easily dine on food from 100-plus countries. Or you can just go to the borough of Queens, where an incredibly diverse food scene is thriving even in these pandemic days. Located across the East River from Manhattan, Queens has benefited from steady immigration that has built up a fabulously varied culinary stage. “Of the five boroughs, Queens is the one with the most diverse population... with over 100...
In this file photo taken on May 18, 1982 Italian film directors, brothers Paolo (second left), and Vittorio Taviani (second right) are accompanied by the actors, Sabina Vannucchi (left), Omero Antinutti(center), Margarita Lozano (right), and Claudio Bigagli for the presentation of their film ‘La Notte di San Lorenzo’ during the Cannes International Film Festival. — AFP
Spanish actress Margarita Lozano dies at 90
Spanish actress Margarita Lozano, who worked with top European directors such as Pier Paolo Pasolini and Sergio Leone, died yesterday aged 90, local officials said. The southeastern city of Lorca, where Lozano spent her childhood, declared three days of mourning, referring to her as an “adoptive daughter.” “Margarita Lozano left a deep mark on both the cinema and theatre and acted under the orders of the best directors of the time,” Lorca...
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Original ‘Fight Club’ ending restored in China after online backlash
The original, iconic ending of cult US film Fight Club has been restored to screens in China after a censored version that brought all criminals to book sparked outrage online. Beijing has some of the world’s most restrictive censorship rules with authorities only approving a handful of foreign films for release each year—sometimes with major cuts. But reversing endings is rare, and there was widespread anger after censors replaced the...
BEIJING: Argentine President Alberto Fernandez during his official visit in Beijing. — AFP
China welcomes Argentina into its global Belt and Road initiative
BEIJING: China welcomed Argentina into its global Belt and Road Initiative yesterday as President Xi Jinping capped a weekend of frenetic diplomatic activity on the sidelines of the Winter Olympics. Xi has not left his country since the coronavirus first emerged in the city of Wuhan, with China now the only major economy still pursuing a strict zero-COVID strategy.But the Beijing Games have allowed Xi to hold a flurry of face-to-face meetings...
PARIS: In the extravagant world of the French luxury industry, brands used to prefer destroying their unsold goods rather than offering their high-priced products at a discount.
French luxury houses give unsold goods a second chance
PARIS: In the extravagant world of the French luxury industry, brands used to prefer destroying their unsold goods rather than offering their high-priced products at a discount. But gone are the days of binning the coats, handbags and shoes pooh-poohed by shoppers after a new anti-waste law came into force at the start of the year. Now luxury houses are managing their stocks more carefully, offering deals to staff, making donations and recycling...
WISMAR, Germany: The 342m long and almost finished cruise ship “Global Dream“ is pictured in the main assembly hall of the shipbuilder “MV Werften” in Wismar. —AFP
Unfinished ‘Global Dream’ turns into a nightmare for German port town
BERLIN: The unfinished “Global Dream” rests quietly in a dock as the COVID-19 pandemic has turned the cruise ship into a nightmare for the shipyard in Wismar along Germany’s windswept Baltic coast. Destined to have become one of the world’s largest liners, the “Global Dream” will be lucky to ever set sail after the Asian-owned MV Werften shipyard filed for bankruptcy last month.With no buyer having stepped forward, thousands of jobs...
The sun rises at the prehistoric monument Stonehenge near Amesbury in southern England.—AFP photos
New show explores ‘interconnected world’ behind Stonehenge
As the sun rose over the frost on Salisbury Plain, archaeologist Sarah Greaney conjured up a picture of the hundreds of workers who built Stonehenge, a Neolithic wonder in southern England. “These people are farmers, they have crops, they have animals and the turning of the year would have been a major part of their lifestyles,” Greaney, senior properties historian at English Heritage, told AFP. It is 4,500 years since laborers from across...
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HATHRAS, India: Policemen carry a person who died in a melee during a sermon in Uttar Pradesh state on July 2, 2024. - AFP
Stampede at India religious event kills 116
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Minister of Municipal Affairs Dr Noura Al-Mashaan and Head of the Municipal Council Abdullah Al-Mahari inspect the Darwazat Abdulrazzaq project. – KUNA photos
Darwaza Abdulrazzaq project set to reopen
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Interior cracks down on residency violators