Featuring four female K-pop stars who later transform into old men behind bars, the ad was meant to convey the message that drugs will ruin lives “no matter how pretty they're packaged”.
In its 80th year, the world’s second-oldest film festival, taking over a Czech spa town, is still celebrating premieres, and some are more surprising than others.
Europe's June heatwave has driven up electricity demand and wholesale power prices across the continent, highlighting the growing impact of cooling needs on electricity systems.
Disney’s animated powerhouse “Toy Story 5” maintained its absolute stranglehold on the U.K. and Ireland box office during its sophomore frame, dropping a modest 36% to collect a commanding £9.1 million ($12.1 million). The Pixar title has re-energized the summer marketplace,
The newly released Screen Tourism Forecast Index is predicting which countries and cities will see a surge in visitors thanks to film and TV this year.
Ford is recalling 741,195 vehicles in the US over a transmission defect that can damage the park system, which in turn could result in vehicles rolling away, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Tuesday.
Residents who spoke with Haaretz describe repeated IDF incursions into their villages in the Daraa and Quneitra governorates to conduct searches and set up roadblocks, with hundreds of raids reported in recent months. Locals say the pattern has intensified since 2024
The case against Gojek founder Nadiem Makarim relates to a laptop deal made during his term as Indonesia's education minister.
A simple 7-question test helps us realize how diverse a population is. On this quiz, the highest possible score is less than 7%. No matter how common you think your answers are, no matter how normal you feel, you’re actually in sync with just 7% (at the most) of all citizens of
The ‘bastardo’ hot dog will be available in SWISS First on all flights departing Switzerland until 1 September.
The famous statue inviting the world to send “your tired, your poor… your huddled masses yearning to live free” was built in France; for America’s 250th, France is preparing a monumental artwork.
La Guaira port in Venezuela is turned into a makeshift morgue after twin earthquakes, with forensic teams processing victims and families waiting for news.
Most of our conception of Stoicism, an ancient school of thought much featured here on Open Culture, derives from the writings of just three figures: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, and Seneca the Younger. But there were other Stoics, and despite their antiquity, we may yet learn
The police said the victim died from slash wounds to the head.
Diapause is a fascinating form of biological dormancy employed by a broad array of animals as a survival strategy to endure adverse environmental conditions. To overcome the problems associated with seasons that are unsuitable for reproduction and/or development, many temperate
In the earliest stages of life, mammalian embryos start as a disorganized cluster of cells. As development progresses, these cells become organized into well-defined shapes and structures. This process happens again and again during development, yet it unfolds in environments
146 Venezuelans were deported from Texas to Caracas on June 24. Hours later, while the deportees were in a guarded hotel, powerful twin earthquakes struck.
Donald Trump lost three big cases at the Supreme Court on Monday. His appeal of E. Jean Carroll’s verdict failed . He was blocked from firing a Federal reserve official. And most important, the court upheld the counting of late-arriving mail ballots. He ranted wildly over these
Himesh Patel, Niamh Algar and Simone Kirby also join Emilia Jones and Alison Oliver in the Irish revenge movie from 'Kneecap' filmmaker Rich Peppiatt, inspired by a history book about Irish women emigrants.
“Bad Bridgets,” the Irish period thriller from “Kneecap” director Rich Peppiatt, has added a starry ensemble of names as it gears up to start filming in Northern Ireland in July. Joining its two leads Emilia Jones and Alison Oliver are Colin Farrell (“Banshees of Inisherin,”
The Kremlin had framed the Anchorage summit as a turning point for the war in Ukraine. Now, Putin admits there was no deal, perhaps to get U.S. to help to broker a new one.
Kieu Chinh has spent 68 years as an actor, and most of those years carried her further from the country where she began, through Hollywood, through “The Joy Luck Club,” through “The Sympathizer,” through a career built largely outside the borders of the country that shaped her.
Donald Trump has announced his new plan: the renovation of Washington D.C.'s East Potomac Golf Links. Critics aren't happy about the "vanity project".
In Venezuela, the devastating twin earthquakes have left thousands sleeping on the street. Shelters are overflowing as relief efforts struggle to keep up.
Susan Collins and Patty Murray have been increasingly at odds as the midterms approach and spending priorities diverge.
America’s biggest educational exchange program is on its last legs. President Donald Trump’s Fiscal Year 2027 Budget recently proposed to cut the Fulbright Program by nearly 80%. The cut comes during the 80th year of the program, which was founded at the behest of its namesake,