Simone Forti’s Dance of Life
Remembering the pioneering performance artist, who died on Wednesday at 91. Plus: Trump gives two gilded statues in DC a makeover.
Remembering the pioneering performance artist, who died on Wednesday at 91. Plus: Trump gives two gilded statues in DC a makeover.
The latest installment of the Insidious horror franchise from James Wan and Leigh Whannell is only a short time away.
In Angola, the conflict has driven up prices for food, fuel and fertilizer, increases felt most acutely by the poor. But for the wealthy and well-connected, it's been a boon.
In this edition: in a pickle; gut feeling; king of pain; life (or something like it); for those about to rock.
After dominating Africa’s digital payments space, Flutterwave is turning to banking in a move that could reshape competition between fintechs and traditional lenders. The company plans to use acquisitions to fast-track its expansion into lending, trade finance and other
As Europe counts over 16,000 excess deaths due to this summer’s soaring temperatures, the European Union’s health security committee is calling for a fundamental shift in how governments prepare for heatwaves — moving away from reacting to emergencies towards systematic,
Nepal’s Nirmal Purja, who led the expedition of 10 climbers, set a world record in 2019, becoming the first person ever to climb all 14 of the world’s highest peaks surpassing the 8,000 metre mark, in just 189 days.
Meredith's DIY Hardware and Ironmongery has been at Yate Shopping Centre, near Bristol, since 1965.
The estimated number of arrivals is more than half of the population of the city, which is about 83,600.
By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO, July 31 (Reuters) - Implementation of the deal to bring peace to Gaza announced by U.S. President Donald Trump will depend on Israel first meeting its commitments under an agreement reached last year, a senior Hamas official told Reuters on Friday.
By Mushtaq Ali and Gopal Sharma PESHAWAR/KATHMANDU, July 31 (Reuters) - The bodies of four climbers were located by Pakistani search crews on Friday after at least 10 mountaineers went missing in a suspected avalanche on Broad Peak a day earlier, Pakistani sources said. Among
Launched in 2024, the visa-on-arrival scheme covers 12 Greek islands in the Aegean Sea. Nearly 1.5 million Turks visited Greece in 2025, up from 1.2 million the previous year.
Lam Wing-kee, 70, died in Taipei on July 2 after a battle with cancer.
Carole Feuerman's hyperrealistic sculptures transform Chicago's Magnificent Mile into an open-air gallery, inviting visitors to interact with public art.
The Congolese government has presented a draft agreement paving the way for the dissolution of the group founded by former Rwandan Hutu genocidaires. Kinshasa sees this as a major step forward, while Kigali denounces it as manipulation.
In Hollywood’s original horror heyday of the 1930s and ’40s, it would have been hard to imagine another figure challenging the classic terror quartet of Dracula, Frankenstein monster, werewolf and mummy — let alone that the lowly zombie would ever become serious competition.
Eurozone inflation rose to 2.9% in July, but price pressures varied widely across member states. Here's where inflation accelerated, eased and how markets reacted.
The last time Hong Kong saw a wetter July was when the British colony reverted back to Chinese rule.
He insisted his government was cracking down on scammers.
Some towns and villages are occupied by Thai troops.
[Premium Times] Morocco claimed derby bragging rights with a hard-fought 1-0 win over Algeria, while Senegal returned to winning ways by edging Kenya by the same scoreline to keep qualification firmly within their grasp
The European Commission's Special Envoy on the Cyprus issue is in Cyprus for talks with the Cypriot president and the Turkish Cypriot leader, days after UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres's visit.
Experts at the Matthias Corvinus Museum in Visegrád must still examine the stone ball to confirm if it is a catapult projectile, but it could well be a historic find.
Thousands of migrants crossed overnight from Morocco into Spain's north Africa's Ceuta enclave, a police source said on Friday, as Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez was set to arrive to manage the latest migrant crisis on the border. In recent days, a total of around 40,000
The talkies’ arrival was a major hardship in many respects for the movie industry, as theater owners had to install expensive new equipment, and studios could no longer easily export fresh product to lucrative foreign markets. One solution weighed to the latter dilemma was
The UK band reportedly expressed pro-Palestinian sentiments during a performance.
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The Asian Football Confederation expressed "deep concern" about the proposed establishment of a US$20 billion commercial subsidiary, FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE), to run the World Cup and FIFA's other events.
Climate change made recent fire-prone conditions at least twice as likely in southwestern France and at least 20 times as likely in central Spain, new analysis shows.
Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack members can spend the rest of the summer in Delfino Isle with the addition of Super Mario Sunshine.
We transferred an idea from engineering to culture, but it’s incomplete. If you build a watch that doesn’t tell time, it’s fair to say it doesn’t work. But when a critic says, “that joke didn’t work,” after seeing a comic perform to a raucous audience, what they probably mean
Franco Baresi, the legendary Milan and Italy captain, who's died aged 66, leaves behind a unique legacy of trophies, titles and a record of defending the club's iconic red and black colours for more than two decades.
Someone forgot how many fingers Donald has
Dungeons & Dragons has announced a crossover with Star Wars in 2027, leading to speculation that the IP could make an appearance in Magic too.
Boom in solar farms and home installations in first half of 2026 began shortly after start of US-Israel war against Iran Great Britain has recorded more new solar power installations in the first half of this year than in any six-month period since 2011, as households turn to
Mathematicians have shown that completely fair elections are—in a sense—impossible. No electoral system can guarantee both that local votes translate directly into local seats and that total seat distribution matches overall vote shares—not without an indefinitely growing
Permafrost in the Arctic stores large quantities of organic carbon. When frozen ground thaws or coastal sections erode, this carbon can enter the sea, where microorganisms can break it down and convert it into climate-damaging greenhouse gases. The extent to which this carbon
A scientific paper reads as a clean progression from question to result. And yet, research almost never happens that way. Experiments fail, conversations redirect projects, and none of it survives into print. When the founders of a field retire, their tacit knowledge goes with
The Nigerian bourse has made history as Africa’s first to adopt the fastest stock settlement cycle, but foreign investors are baulking at the unintended consequence of pre-funding, putting the country’s hard-won FTSE Russell Frontier Market reclassification at risk.
Donald Trump and his dutiful Federal Communications Commission chair, Brendan Carr, have been targeting ABC’s broadcast licenses, and ABC just challenged this hard in a new filing. In an interesting move, ABC cited Trump’s own social media postings and remarks at speeches to
Negeri Sembilan heads to the polls on Aug 1, with Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s Pakatan Harapan pact battling to retain power in the face of a Malay-Muslim unity narrative spun by Barisan Nasional and Perikatan Nasional.
India’s Oscar-qualifying Bengaluru International Short Film Festival (BISFF) has expanded its competition to 10 arenas of cinema for its 16th edition, adding new categories for AI-made films and screendance. BISFF received a record 3,340 submissions this year from more than 100
Case adds to tension between the tech giant and the Indian government over online content.
Amid higher windfall taxes and volatile global energy markets, BP's proposed sale could bring an end to around 60 years of North Sea production under the British energy giant’s ownership.
Spain's Interior Ministry said on Friday that according to its estimates more than 40,000 migrants had crossed into the enclave of Ceuta in North Africa over the past 24 hours, as they rushed by sea and land from Morocco.
The government has vowed to increase defence spending to 5 per cent of GDP by 2030.
The president’s willingness to sacrifice his attorney general’s confirmation shows how deep his contempt for his enemies goes.
Analysts said memory chips are China’s most realistic opportunity to narrow the semiconductor gap.