Australian production company Matchbox Pictures is set to close after almost two decades. The studio was founded by Tony Ayres, Penny Chapman, Helen Bowden, Michael McMahon and Helen Pankhurst in 2008 and is known for fare including “House of Gods,” which won a best actor for
Stephen Colbert went public Monday night with a striking accusation against his own network: that CBS lawyers had barred him from airing an interview with Texas state Rep. James Talarico, who is running for U.S. Senate, in a preemptive bow to FCC pressure over the agency’s push
Tanweer Productions has partnered with former co-CEO of Buccaneer Media, Richard Tulk-Hart and his recently launched Volteo Media on the development of Tanweer’s darkly comic crime series “Antiparos.” Created by Alexandros Tsilifonis and George O’Neill Zafeiropoulos, the 6 x
Džana Pinjo, who starred in Angelina Jolie’s 2011 “In the Land of Blood and Honey,” Snežana Bogićević (Bosnian hit sitcom “Crazy, Confused, Normal”) and Maja Izetbegović (“Regained Memory,” 2026 Karlovy Vary World Premiere) are toplining the series “Hedgehogs in the Haze”
DHAKA, Feb 17 - Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Tarique Rahman was sworn in as Bangladesh’s prime minister on Tuesday, marking a decisive political shift in the South Asian nation after his party’s sweeping parliamentary election victory.
Prosecutors in Austria have filed terrorism charges against a 21-year-old who allegedly plotted to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna in 2024.
Celebrated civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson died early Tuesday, his family said in a statement, after battling the neurodegenerative disorder Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP). He was 84 years old. "Our father was a servant leader — not only to our family, but to
Reverend Jesse Jackson was a prominent civil rights campaigner who ran twice for the US Democratic Party's nomination for president in 1984 and 1988.
The author of an award-winning travel blog has included the two Greek islands on a list of 'adored' destinations.
Sweden’s Plattform Produktion, the outfit behind Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or winners “Triangle of Sadness” and “The Square,” has entered a co-production partnership with Norway’s Motlys on psychological thriller series “A Phone Rings in the Middle of the Night” (“En Telefon
[Premium Times] The Africa Facts Advisory Committee is a continental body tasked with guiding strategic priorities and strengthening collaboration among fact-checking organisations across Africa.
For the first time, non-English-language titles account for the majority of Netflix’s original TV season releases, with Korean-language content emerging as the platform’s fastest-growing category, according to new research from Ampere Analysis. The firm’s findings show that 52%
The appearance of the Dead Sea Scrolls was the most important document discovery of the twentieth century. Yet, in some sense, they didn’t deliver what many assumed to be promised within: that is, the basis for a complete revision of everything we thought we knew about
Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, Switzerland has played a pivotal diplomatic role, serving as a conduit for exchanging documents and proposals when direct communication between Washington and Tehran was limited or nonexistent.
Look at the armpits—or, technically, the "wingpits. That's what Scott Mehus, education director at the National Eagle Center in Wabasha, Minn., told a group of bird watchers recently as they prepared to scan the winter skies for a majestic raptor that's especially tricky to
Iran and the United States began fresh talks in Geneva on Tuesday, as President Donald Trump warned of consequences should Tehran fail to strike a deal. Mediated by Oman, the discussions are aimed at averting the possibility of US military action, with Tehran expressing
Nucleotide synthesis—the production of the basic components of DNA and RNA—is essential for cell growth and division. In most animal cells, this process depends closely on properly functioning mitochondria, the organelles responsible for respiration and energy production. When
Researchers at the University of Oxford have developed a powerful new method to visualize an essential lithium-ion battery electrode component that had been extremely difficult to trace before. The discovery, published in Nature Communications, could lead to increased
