Amid burnout, economic uncertainty and rising costs, more young Chinese urbanites are romanticising rural living through social media, but experts say reality may be more complicated.
Elon Musk posted Armie Hammer’s “Citizen Vigilante” to his X account on Friday, sharing the controversial indie-actioner with his 240 million followers. The link was active for about 48 hours and went dark on Saturday. Directed and written by 60-year-old German filmmaker Uwe
Strikes have killed at least one person, state media say a day after Lebanon and Israel signed a framework agreement.
Adding SpaceX this quickly would make the Elon Musk company one of the first beneficiaries of Nasdaq's recently adopted fast-track inclusion framework.
The captain of the Iranian men’s national football ripped FIFA and its president Gianni Infantino on Friday for its experience during the World Cup, as it awaits word on whether its tournament run has come to an end. “It’s a disaster World Cup,” Mehdi Taremi told reporters
The BBC travelled to a Caracas hospital that is treating people from the worst affected areas.
Greater agility in the sales system—that is, a company's ability to rapidly adapt its sales channels to changing market conditions—is associated with higher operating profit, but only under certain conditions. That is the result of an observational, survey-based study involving
The best boxers in the world travel to New York City, where Puerto Rican fighter Xander Zayas (23-0-0) defenses his WBO and WBA super welterweight titles against Philadelphia-born boxer Jaron “Boots” Ennis (35-0-0) in the main event on Saturday, June 27. Zayas vs. Ennis
Teenage Engineering has already issued multiple substantial updates for its surprisingly capable $329 EP-133 KO II sampler. Its latest is one of the biggest yet. OS 2.5 adds audio over USB, selectable sample rates for lo-fi fun, sample reverse, an arpeggiator, equal-length
Two deals backed by the Trump administration diverged into different strategies. Rubio's deal sees Iran and Hezbollah sidelined from the regional arena. Vance's Switzerland MoU brings Iran and Hezbollah to center stage. Will one cancel the other, bringing all sides to a total
A University of Alberta research team has designed a promising alternative for treating antimicrobial-resistant infections, a pressing global health issue. In a paper recently published in Cell Biomaterials, the team describes preclinical testing results for its human-derived
President Trump’s intense focus on passing the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act is threatening to put Republicans at risk ahead of the midterm elections as the party finds itself on uneven footing with voters on affordability. Trump sent shockwaves
Voters in Louisiana are heading to the polls Saturday to weigh in on the Republican Senate runoff following Sen. Bill Cassidy's ouster last month. GOP Rep. Julia Letlow and state treasurer John Fleming advanced from the initial May primary after neither candidate secured over
President Trump announced his nomination of Lance Schroyer as the next director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Saturday. The president commended Schroyer’s experience as a former Oklahoma state trooper and U.S. Marine in a Truth Social post, calling him a
Louisiana Republicans will decide their nominee for Senate on Saturday in a runoff that has become another test of President Trump’s influence over the party. GOP voters in the Pelican State have already demonstrated their loyalty to Trump, crushing incumbent Sen. Bill
The biggest winners this past week at Cannes Lions were undoubtedly … the ice cream vendors. During a scorching week in the south of France, an estimated 13,000-plus Cannes Lions attendees hustled up and down the Croisette in Cannes for meetings, panels and pitches. The glacier
Yesterday Noah Kahan asked his fans to stop stealing his hometown's road sign , and now he's asking them to not shit their seats at his shows. Whereas Olivia Rodrigo recently made headlines after discussing concertgoers wearing adult diapers at her concerts in general
For Colombian rising animation talent María Cristina Pérez, whose experimental short “Once in a Body” (“Una vez en un Cuerpo”) competed in the Annecy Animation Festival’s Perspectives sidebar, human connection is the overriding theme in her growing body of work. This is her
Adapted from Ali Hazelwood’s bestselling novel, the STEM-inspired romance follows a fake relationship between a brilliant Ph.D. candidate and the school’s intimidating professor.
The most prominent animation festival in the world, Annecy, has named Colombia as its Country of Honor next year, a significant nod to the South American nation’s burgeoning animation industry. The honor was awarded by the 66-year-old festival and its market, Mifa (Marché
An Alaska judge ruled on Friday that a candidate with the same name and party affiliation as Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) can stay on the ballot to challenge the incumbent senator for his seat, overturning a previous ban on his candidacy. Superior Court Judge Thomas Matthews
Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir rejected the U.S.-brokered agreement, saying Lebanon could not be trusted to disarm Hezbollah..
Reemerging from the pre-digital media era, these promotional stills contain high fidelity stills of low polygon games
The film is one of Hammer's first indie projects since he was dropped by his agency following allegations of sexual misconduct in 2021. Writer-director Uwe Boll says a sequel is coming next year.
An estimated 150 million people are now experiencing temperatures of over 35C across Europe.
Second lady Usha Vance poked fun at a New York Times article examining the public image of pregnant women in President Trump’s orbit, joking that she did not realize her maternity dress carried so much “political significance.” “Now that we know the political significance of my
The commemorative special edition passports will be available on 6 July, and can only be applied for in person
The Nintendo 64 sequel proved one series had what it took to delight millions of players.
“The Violinist” beat out major competition at Annecy, such as “In Waves,” “Viva Carmen” and “Iron Boy,” all already big hits at Cannes, to win on Saturday the biggest festival prize in animation: Annecy’s feature film Cristal. A tale of two young violinist virtuosos in and
A chemical analysis of residential soils and ash around California homes burned by the Eaton and Palisades wildfires in early 2025 revealed wide variation in contamination by potentially harmful elements, including lead, according to a study published in Environmental Science
From "harmless" white lies to infidelity, dishonesty in romantic relationships is a complex phenomenon that takes on many forms. New research from the University of Copenhagen shows that while dishonesty between partners often fuels distrust and resentment, it may also, in some
