Marrakech Film Festival has unveiled a starry lineup for this year’s conversations program, including Jodie Foster, Guillermo del Toro and Bong Joon Ho. The Moroccan fest, which runs from Nov. 28 to Dec. 6, will also host talks with “The Matrix” actor Laurence Fishburne;
[Premium Times] Voting for the 2025 Sub-Saharan Africa Awards is now open until 14 November 2025 (midnight CAT), allowing users to cast one vote per category each day.
[allAfrica] The saying ''Nothing Without Us is for Us'' is a powerful reminder that lasting solutions can only emerge when those most affected are included in shaping them. This call for inclusion resonates deeply as Africa prepares to participate in key global policy spaces
Australia's conservative opposition said on Thursday it will drop its commitment to achieving net zero emissions by 2050 if it wins power and leads a country dependent on fossil fuels but highly vulnerable to climate change.
On a gleaming new production line in Brussels, Julien Jacquet shows off a row of milky-white soap bar wrappers—made by what is billed as Europe's first factory for mushroom-based packaging.
Following a powerful extratropical cyclone that swept across south-central Brazil last week —bringing heavy storms and a tornado that devastated parts of Paraná and Santa Catarina— meteorologists are warning that the country faces a continued risk of similar weather events
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's defence ministry said on Thursday it was too early to say what caused the crash this week of a military cargo plane in Georgia in which 20 soldiers died, and inspections continue. The C-130 cargo aircraft had left Azerbaijan for Turkey and
Formal employment in Paraguay has reached a new historic record, with the country adding nearly 64,000 new formal jobs so far in 2025, according to the Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Security (MTESS).
For each of the past several years, scientists, analysts and officials have been hoping that it would be the year when emissions from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas would stop going up.
A particle accelerator that produces intense X-rays could be squeezed into a device that fits on a table, my colleagues and I have found in a new research project.
Poppy and Nick O'Hagan discuss the benefits of theatrical windows and community in the age of Netflix and A24, launching with director Richard Hawkins' Tallinn-premiering title, and their next projects.
France is commemorating 10 years since the Paris terror attacks with ceremonies led by President Macron and Mayor Hidalgo, honouring the 132 victims at multiple sites.
In the foothills of Japan's Northern Alps, people are chasing monkeys.
A research team led by Prof. Wang Jianjun from the Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has produced a global map depicting the distribution and variation of dissolved organic matter (DOM) across Earth's oceans. The findings were
DHAKA - Bangladesh will hold a national referendum on implementing its 'July Charter' for state reform, drafted after last year's deadly student-led uprising, Muhammad Yunus, the head of the country's interim government, said on Thursday.
By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) -On Tehran's bustling streets, signs of change are unmistakable. Women walk unveiled in jeans and sneakers, men and women linger together in cafés where Western music hums softly, and couples stroll hand-in-hand — subtle acts that chip away at
"They're committing acts of sexual violence and atrocities," says the US secretary of state, "and it needs to end immediately".
Image by Jules Jacot Guillarmod, via Wikimedia Commons In 2016, we brought you a rather strange story about the rivalry between poet William Butler Yeats and magician Aleister Crowley. Theirs was a feud over the practices of occult society the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn;
Amendment restricts protection for animals to allow faster house building Housing secretary Steve Reed has told Labour MPs to vote down an amendment to the new planning bill intended to protect British wildlife and its habitats from destruction. The amendment, which was passed
MANILA – President Ferdinand Marcos Jr on Thursday (November 13) vowed to have corrupt public officials linked to shoddy or non-existent infrastructure projects in jail by December, following back-to-back typhoons that left dozens dead and caused floods that displaced over a
Shiyao Wang had hidden the reptiles to mail them to Hong Kong.
Ursula von der Leyen has outlined a plan B to fund Ukraine should the reparations loan pegged to the Russian assets fail. The loan is still seen as the best option to keep the financing going even if Belgium plays hardball.
China’s Xpeng-owned Aridge has launched trial production at the world’s first flying car factory in Guangzhou, taking a major step toward commercializing next-generation transport.
DUBAI - On Tehran's bustling streets, signs of change are unmistakable. Women walk unveiled in jeans and sneakers, men and women linger together in cafés where Western music hums softly, and couples stroll hand-in-hand — subtle acts that chip away at the rigid social codes that
Most countries in the European Union allow at least some online gambling. Here's how to stay safe when making bets.
Pope Leo XIV will host several film stars and directors at an event this weekend as part of the Roman Catholic Church Jubilee, which takes place every quarter century. The pontiff has shared his favourite films...
A group of British artists sent a statement to Prime Minister Keir Starmer to honor his pledge to tackle “extortionate and pernicious” resale websites
The surreal spectacle of Ahmed al-Sharaa strolling through the White House—greeting supporters, playing basketball with American military officials, and schmoozing with congressional leaders—would have been dismissed as fever-dream fantasy just two years ago. Yet here we are,
Researchers discovered that living horsetails act like natural distillation towers, producing bizarre oxygen isotope signatures more extreme than anything previously recorded on Earth—sometimes resembling meteorite water. By tracing these isotopic shifts from the plant base to
It will go after US-based infrastructure that facilitates the scams, including social media accounts.
NEC has concluded a Technology Partner Program Agreement with Siemens Industry Software to develop an automated AI-based robot teaching method. The partnership combines NEC Robot Task Planning digital twin software with Siemens’ Process Simulate software for 3D robot
The creators of Emmy-winning drama “Shogun” offered tantalizing glimpses into the ambitious scope of the show’s second season during a discussion at the Disney+ originals preview at Hong Kong Disneyland Resort on Thursday, promising unprecedented battle sequences and an
Thomas Stuber ('In the Aisles') discusses his Tallinn-premiering road movie about a German man with Down syndrome and a Japanese tourist, Buddhism, and why he likes a slow cinematic pace.
Bol Mel, who is sanctioned by the US for alleged corruption, had been tipped as Kiir's successor.
According to the Wafa news agency, settlers set fire to the entrance of the mosque and sprayed threatening graffiti on its outer walls. The arson comes a day after the IDF acknowledged a sharp rise in cases of Jewish terrorism in the West Bank, but said it stemmed from 'fringe'
CNA saw Namewee, whose real name is Wee Meng Chee, emerging from Dang Wangi police headquarters on Thursday (Nov 13) afternoon, boarding an SUV and leaving without speaking to the media.
Guinea is set to be the world’s largest mine for the highest grade of iron ore.
The average full-time salary in the EU was €39,800 in 2024, according to Eurostat, showing increases in each country.
Two people who had suffered cardiac arrest were later confirmed to have died.
BRUSSELS - EU member states have three options to fund Ukraine's financing needs, with a reparations loan based on immobilised Russian assets as the most effective option, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Thursday.
Of all the mysteries in the Netflix thriller “The Beast in Me,” the least suspenseful is its source of inspiration. The limited series co-stars Matthew Rhys as Nile Jarvis, a reclusive New York real estate heir widely suspected of murdering his first wife who decides to
World premiering in main competition at Tallinn,”The Frog and The Water” by Thomas Stuber, a student Oscar winner for his 2012 short ”Of Dogs And Horses,” sounds like a fairytale. And it is. A warm-hearted story about the most unlikely characters, two drifting souls, who
