Duck Dynasty at the Frick
The duckling family found waddling at the Manhattan museum, Art Basel impressions, and Kim Dacres’s rubber art.
The duckling family found waddling at the Manhattan museum, Art Basel impressions, and Kim Dacres’s rubber art.
The people whose private fixations become a way of seeing, remembering, and caring for the world.
GDANSK, June 18 - Australia in December became the world's first country to ban social media for children under 16, blocking them from platforms including TikTok, Alphabet's YouTube and Meta's Instagram and Facebook.
While pockets of creatives in the entertainment industry turn to AI, Critical Role stands firm in its defense of human creativity.
Banijay Kids & Family has secured distribution rights to Pyjama Films’ mockumentary-style adult animation “Belzebubs.” Currently in production, it’s already confirmed for YLE in Finland and TV3 in Catalonia, with presales also secured for RUV (Iceland) and Prima (Czechia).
As Indonesia’s entertainment industry gains greater international visibility, MD Entertainment, one of the country’s top studios, is increasingly looking beyond local success and toward global partnerships, franchise development and emerging content formats. During the
A refinery and a shopping centre were burning after almost 200 Ukrainian drones struck an area to the south-east of the Russian capital.
Refiners locked in purchases from places like the US, while China had largely stayed out of the market.
TOKYO – China’s latest fix for its ailing economy: build a better birdcage. The metaphor runs deep in Chinese culture, where enclosures for pet birds have long captured the tension between freedom and control — the belief that markets, like captive creatures, need defined
According to a leaked image, Hunter x Hunter will reprise serialization in Weekly Shonen Jump with a batch of new chapters starting next week.
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, June 18 (Reuters) - While a city is not a living organism, it behaves very much like one. Its metabolic processes may be manifested in growth spurts, metamorphosis over time and even decay. Researchers using satellite imagery have tracked the vital
Uganda's military chief had boasted of "the hurt and pain" he would inflict on Erias Lukwago, who was arrested earlier this week.
SEOUL, June 18 - North Korea's Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un, condemned a G7 call for the country's denuclearisation as a violation of its constitution and an infringement of sovereignty, state media KCNA said on Thursday.
For transport planners, the challenge is to understand the different ways people move through each city.
The gunmen concealed their weapons behind flowers and stuffed toys while waiting for the victim outside Guayaquil airport.
Joel and Ethan Coen will be honored at the 18th edition of the Lumière Festival, which runs from Oct. 10-18 in Lyon, France. The filmmaking brothers will receive the Lumière Award at the festival, which is focused on classic cinema and iconic filmmakers, and is headed by Cannes
The mother said her daughter weighed only 20kg five months after her release from jail.
Manila’s International Airport, the worst in Southeast Asia and perpetually under renovation, serves as the departure hall for more than two million Filipino workers whom the state contracts out annually to foreign employers. The passengers are nurses, seafarers, engineers and
Beijing urged both sides to continue their cooperation in a second round of negotiations.
HSBC failed to maintain adequate controls over its internal transfer systems between May 2023 and May 2024.
The Indian conglomerate’s boardroom drama highlights a speculative strategy
This comes as Beijing seeks to position itself as a champion of multilateralism amid growing geopolitical tensions.
Kaiser Chiefs frontman Ricky Wilson has been cast as Teen Angel in Secret Cinema and TodayTix’s return staging of “Grease: The Immersive Movie Musical,” set to run at Evolution London in Battersea Park from July 22 to Sept. 13. Wilson joins a cast that includes Giórgios
[A long riff on book publishing with (perhaps) wide applicability to your work as well.] Publishing is different from writing—it’s the hard work of creating the conditions to help people get in sync, move forward, and get to where they’re headed. The best reason to publish a
Between soaring pump prices, supply-chain tensions and a new wave of inflation, the consequences of the war in the Middle East have been felt far beyond the front lines. Under pressure, the continent once again demonstrated its resilience – but at what cost?
The ill-fated romance of Abelard and Héloïse may be a permanent cultural fixture, but it’s worth asking what any of us understand about Abelard or Héloïse themselves. Before the two ever crossed paths, Peter Abelard was already a celebrated philosopher in France whose classes
By teaching an AI to use optical tweezers, researchers from the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology have sped up the analysis of life's smallest components. The AI platform captures particles, takes measurements and loads new samples, all without
A study led by South African scientists reveals that during winter, the sea ice around Antarctica harbors a reservoir of microbes, most of which have one thing in common—the ability to produce and break down a compound known to protect organisms in extreme environments.
"Over his long career, Rick Baker has transformed Michael Jackson into a zombie in Thriller and turned Jim Carrey into the Grinch."
Its plan comes in response to the oil supply disruptions that followed the Iran war.
Five deaths, looming demolitions, and stalled projects raise an uncomfortable question: is Accra’s flood crisis about rain, or decades of governance failure?
Donald Trump’s ceasefire agreement with Iran has now been released , and it confirms what we all expected: He got nothing of any significance. A surprising number of his allies agree. Fox News personalities, visibly angry and rattled, are saying they’ve “very skeptical” of the
Russian officials said Ukraine launched one of its largest drone attacks of the war. Images and video released by the Russian media showed massive fires raging at the Moscow Oil Refinery, located about 15 kilometers from the Kremlin. Thick black clouds of smoke rose over the
The world's most important energy chokepoint may soon reopen, but insurance markets must regain confidence for the shipping sector to resume normal navigation. Meanwhile, Germany has dispatched two naval vessels for a possible mine clearance operation.
On India's hot plains, scorching summers have become increasingly hard to endure, requiring adaptations and forcing life into the dark hours before the sun turns punishing.
As policymakers across Europe debate how AI should reshape labour markets, Amazon’s European operations are a working example of how technology deployment and workforce participation can evolve together.
Europe's EV charging network is growing fast, but prices and refuelling point density vary widely across the continent. Europe in Motion breaks down the data.
Doubts and differing visions of another partisan policy package are “going to be the problem” keeping Republicans from passing such a bill.
The Indian government invoked emergency powers to block Telegram in the country until June 22.
Through its website and app, PosoKanei allows consumers in Greece to see where products are cheapest in real time, compare prices across European countries and track price changes over time.
The Korea-US Strategic Investment Corporation will manage and implement a US$350 billion investment pledge.
Researchers found the Heard and McDonald Islands littered with seal carcasses in October 2025.
A local deputy wants to reduce fuel duty on the island by 10p a litre.
From skincare giant L'Oréal to consulting firm PwC, business leaders at VivaTech 2026 had a shared message: personal vitality and organisational resilience are no longer a luxury — they are a competitive necessity.
By Nidhi Verma, Siyi Liu and Joyce Lee NEW DELHI/SINGAPORE, June 18 (Reuters) - Middle Eastern crude oil markets could come under further pressure if the Strait of Hormuz reopens on Friday following the U.S.-Iran interim deal, releasingmillions of barrels of oil stranded in the