“The Incomer,” Louis Paxton’s debut feature starring Domhnall Gleeson, has been picked up by Focus Features for international rights and is now also set to open this year’s Edinburgh Film Festival. The Scottish folk-comedy-drama, focussing on the clash between a pair of
“Fiume o morte!,” directed by Igor Bezinović, was awarded the FIPRESCI Documentary Grand Prix Thursday during the opening ceremony of the 23rd Millennium Docs Against Gravity, the second-largest documentary film festival in Europe. The award honors the best documentary film of
Americans lost more than ten billion dollars to fraud in 2023, and job scams are among the fastest-growing kinds.
The price of jet fuel most European airlines currently use has jumped by half since the start of the war.
Capcom stealth-launched an update for RE9 overnight, adding the new combat minigame mode which unlocks after completing the story.
In today’s issue: ▪ U.S., Iran exchange strikes ▪ Court strikes down Trump tariffs ▪ Hantavirus concerns ▪ Clarence Thomas’s milestone President Trump's latest push for a relatively narrow peace deal with Iran has both supporters and critics asking if he’s really prepared to
Screenxcope has acquired Australian and New Zealand rights to “Roid,” partnering with DeshiEvents for a theatrical release slated for early June across both territories. The Bangladeshi drama had its premiere as a Tiger Competition selection at International Film Festival
Europeans are taking credit for the growing signs of strain in the Russian economy. Does that mean sanctions are working? It's complicated.
Cannes-bound directors Pawel Pawlikowski (“Fatherland”), Lukas Dhont (“Coward”) and Rodrigo Sorogoyen (“The Beloved”) are among the more than 4,700 film personalities who have signed an open letter calling for the European Union to backpedal on its plans to make major changes
DUBAI, May 8 - Iran has seized the oil tanker Ocean Koi in the Gulf of Oman over an alleged attempt to disrupt Iran's oil exports, Iranian state media said on Friday, quoting an army statement.
AI models and people played “collaborative” Battleship to test strategies for efficiently solving problems
The problem with Pluto isn’t its planetary or nonplanetary status—it’s our insistence on declaring the world must be one or the other
A common constipation drug may have unexpectedly unlocked a new way to slow chronic kidney disease — a condition that affects millions and often leads to dialysis. In a clinical trial involving 150 patients, researchers found that lubiprostone, a medication normally used to
South African authorities shot the animal and hoisted it from a river in order to recover the man's remains. The identity of the man, a Portuguese businessman, was confirmed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
"Did anyone in the '90s expect Win32 to still be a first-class API surface in the year 2026? And I think I can safely answer, no."
[Capital FM] Across much of the Western financial press, Africa's growing use of China's renminbi (RMB) is often framed through the lens of geopolitics, expanding Chinese influence and shifting global alliances. Yet beneath the political framing lies a far more practical story,
Instagram is ending end-to-end encrypted chats amid child safety concerns, but what does the change actually mean for your DMs?
MOSCOW, May 8 - Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to negotiate with \"everyone\", including the Europeans, the Kremlin said on Friday after the Financial Times reported that European Union leaders were preparing for potential talks.
Nintendo has announced that it will raise the cost of the Switch 2 to $499.99 from Sep. 1 in the US, along with increases in Canada, Europe, and Japan
The police said they obtained information indicating the suspect and victim had been on bad terms.
Charli xcx has released her new single and video, “Rock Music,” and at two minutes, its brevity stands in stark contrast to the outsize amount of discussion it will spark about her new direction in the post-“Brat” era. Most crucially, fans now have a chance to decide whether
By Crispian Balmer ROME, May 8 (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni met U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday at a moment of unusual strain between her government and President Donald Trump's administration, driven largely by the war with Iran. Rubio is in
The Constitutional Court says MPs were was wrong to block impeachment proceedings against Cyril Ramaphosa.
Promises to cut emissions and use more fuel-efficient planes fail to stop rise, with Ryanair’s carbon footprint 50% up on 2019 Emissions from flying in Europe have now passed pre-pandemic levels, with Ryanair’s carbon footprint 50% higher than in 2019, research has shown. Total
A new clash between US and Iranian forces in the Gulf dented optimism for a negotiated peace Friday, despite President Donald Trump insisting a shaky truce was still holding while the sides inch towards a deal. US Central Command said Iranian forces had launched missiles,
A major investment in the Enterprise rail service will bring new trains, faster journey times and more frequent departures between Dublin and Belfast, with the upgraded cross-border route set to launch by 2028.
The “Sauna Theatre” will be the first of its kind in the UK, providing an immersive experience for wellness and culture fans alike.
The two sides report responding to hundreds of drone attacks, just hours into a truce to cover celebrations of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany.
Passengers aboard the hantavirus-affected ship report on life on board, describing conditions during the ongoing situation.
Commerzbank wants to cut a further 3,000 jobs and at the same time significantly increase its profit targets. The reorganisation is the bank's response to the takeover ambitions of the major Italian bank UniCredit.
[Ghanaian Times] Emma Wenani, Chief Director of Global Media Alliance, has been named among the Ascent Top 100 Career Women in Africa 2026, a recognition by Ascent Club that celebrates bold, audacious and high-impact women shaping the continent's corporate landscape.
And launch is only a week out.
Announcing his death, President Duma Boko said Mogae was "a distinguished statesman and patriot".
The high-profile case exposed how ex-police superintendent Bill Yuen and Peter Wai conducted "shadow policing" operations on British soil targeting Hong Kong dissidents.
A Malta-flagged tanker, carrying one million barrels of crude oil, has successfully reached the western coast of South Korea after passing through the Strait of Hormuz in mid-April.
TOKYO – Indonesian officials are working overtime to dismiss any suggestion that Jakarta is catching a whiff of 1997 in the air. But the force of their interventions to steady the rupiah tells a very different story. Bank Indonesia is hemorrhaging currency reserves to put a
Price hikes will be implemented in May in Japan and in September across other regions.
People across Australia held candlelight vigils to remember a 5-year-old girl whose death has shocked the nation.
Temperature swings have left crops across the Plains in terrible conditions, with some farmers opting not to harvest Merrill Nielsen’s wheat crop looked healthy after he planted it in the fall on his 2,500-acre farm in north-central Kansas , about 50 miles west of Salina, the
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Plus, a peek into the Biennale's main exhibition, a poetic procession for Koyo Kouoh, a film about a painter and an art forger, and more.
India’s poor air is driving much needed investment away from the country.
On July 1, perhaps the most punitive bathroom ban in the country is set to go into effect in Idaho. The ban threatens people with criminal penalties for being in a public restroom that does not match what the law refers to as their “biological sex” (a term it does not define).
Things have jobs: pillows are made for comfort, scissors are sharp, and digital devices are made to track your every move - by Carissa Véliz Read on Aeon
Last week, the Supreme Court’s 6–3, party-line decision in Louisiana v. Callais gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the law Congress enacted to stop politicians from drawing district maps that erase the political power of Black and brown voters. The ruling is the latest
Chief Justice John Roberts and his colleagues have a problem on their hands. Americans have an increasingly low opinion of the Supreme Court. Thanks to its aggressive and corrosive rulings, a growing number of voters and elected officials favor structural reforms to rein in the
It has come to this. Every year a completely inoffensive nonprofit called the Partnership for Public Service hosts a ceremony to hand out awards to civil servants who excel at their jobs. The awards are called the “Sammies,” after the roofing magnate and philanthropist Samuel
In an interview with The New York Times last week, Tucker Carlson, once a Trump stalwart, called President Trump’s war with Iran “the single most foolish thing any American president has ever done.” The conservative podcaster no doubt was being intentionally hyperbolic, as his
