The 21st Marrakech International Film Festival is celebrating Moroccan cinema, including the premiere of Daoud Aoulad-Syad’s 'The Blue Lake' and a heartfelt tribute to late actress Naïma Elmcherqui.
Red Dead Redemption 2 modded so wagons and horses travel at supersonic speeds—and the results are ludicrous
A fleet of thumbs, pointed gloriously towards the sky.
Leading Indonesian studio Magma Entertainment presented its upcoming slate and premiered new content at the ongoing Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival (JAFF) and JAFF Market, marking an expansion across multiple genres from 2025 through 2028. The company screened nine minutes
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is requesting $47 billion (€45 billion) to help 190 million people globally.
The likes of Central Cee, Bashy and Ghetts will battle it out for Best Male Act, while RAYE, Nia Archives, Little Simz and Jorja Smith are all up for Best Female Act. The 2025 MOBO Awards will take place next February in Newcastle, UK.
Red Sea honorees Emily Blunt and Aamir Khan, as well as Saudi pioneers Ibrahim Alhasawi and actor Moshal Almutairi will also speak during "In Conversation" events.
Since the onset of Israel's war on Gaza, the wellbeing industry's silence on the crisis highlights a failure to uphold empathy, social justice, and support
Measures in the Budget will boost growth in the short-term, but interest rates will fall more slowly, it says.
A team from the University of Illinois has engineered potato to be more resilient to global warming, showing 30% increases in tuber mass under heat wave conditions. This adaptation may provide greater food security for families dependent on potatoes, as these are often the same
In today’s issue: Key nominees to President-elect Trump’s Cabinet are on shaky ground, as senators appear increasingly skeptical of their backgrounds — and aptitude to lead federal agencies. Defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth, a former Army National Guard member and Fox
Gender gaps are known to persist in social and economic outcomes in most countries, but less well known is how women and men perceive their economic security and their benefits from social programs.
New research reveals that certain soil microbes can help plants grow bigger flowers, therefore attracting more bees. The findings, which are published in New Phytologist, suggest that studying roots' relationships with microbes can help scientists predict floral trait
The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) made huge permanent cuts to corporate and business taxes while making temporary cuts to individual taxes to limit the bill’s expansionary effects on the deficit, which stands now at more than $36 trillion. Now, with Republicans set to
Just a year ago, the South Korean president, Yoon Suk Yeol, addressed the UK parliament with a speech that praised the country as the birthplace of liberal democracy. He pledged that South Korea would join with the UK in promoting freedom, peace and prosperity for the
Sky scripted exec Meghan Lyvers has addressed a question some people have been asking over the recent “The Day of the Jackal” reboot, starring Eddie Redmayne, namely whether it needed to be a reboot at all given the departure from the source material. “The Day of the Jackal”
Borrowing from the language the incumbent US president used to pardon his son Hunter, the president-elect’s lawyers have argued that their client is the victim of "political theatre".
A recap of a dramatic night that saw South Koreans rush to overturn the president's shock martial law order.
Allegations of police violence have emerged as citizens protest the recently re-elected Georgian Dream party's decision to suspend EU accession talks.
A Milan mural depicting Holocaust survivors has been removed after it was vandalised last month.
The Netherlands and Indonesia signed an audiovisual co-production agreement at the inaugural JAFF Market on Wednesday. The treaty was signed by Indonesian Deputy Minister of Culture Giring Ganesha Djumaryo and Barbera Wolfensberger, Director-General of Culture and Media at the
By suspending talks with the E.U., the party was decisively pivoting to Russia and away from its European aspirations — one of the few goals most Georgians agree on.
With mortgage rates on the rise once again and home prices staying stubbornly high , the housing market is poised for another tough — although perhaps more balanced — year. Read more...
China does not allow assisted reproduction for unmarried women. So now they travel to the US for egg-freezing treatments - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
After a difficult year, prospective homebuyers can expect a friendlier, less competitive housing market in 2025. But affordability will continue to be a challenge, with high home prices and mortgage rates still on the horizon. Read more...
Syrian government forces launched a counterattack against Islamist-led rebels around the key city of Hama on Wednesday after suffering a string of staggering losses, a war monitor said. Hama is strategically located in central Syria and for the army, it is key to safeguarding
Didier Reynders, the former European Commissioner for Justice, is under suspicion of money laundering.
The head of the powerful teachers' union is flunking a proposal to put a casino in Times Square -- in the heart of the beloved Broadway theater district.
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Signals from President-elect Trump's team that a shake-up of the White House Press Briefing Room could be coming are roiling journalists preparing to cover his second term. People close to Trump have said in recent days he should dramatically change who gets access to the
Potential paths to a ceasefire in Ukraine are coming into focus as President-elect Trump approaches Inauguration Day, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signaling his concessions to end the war largely along the current front lines in the east. Zelensky last week
The Democratic battle for the top spot on the House Judiciary Committee is heating up as Congress returns this week to Washington, where Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) is challenging Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) to be the face of resistance to the second Trump presidency. The race
Paolo Sorrentino – whose latest film “Parthenope” is scoring record-breaking grosses at the Italian box office – is set to return behind camera to shoot “La Grazia,” a drama that will re-team the Oscar-winning director with “The Great Beauty” actor Toni Servillo. Plot details
Role-playing games tend to rank among the most emotionally-charged video games out there, with many franchises in the genre becoming popular largely based on their deeply-realized characters, heart-stopping soundtracks, and recurring themes that can invoke a wide range of
Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (Hawaii) is emerging as a tough confirmation lift for President-elect Trump, even as other nominees such as Pete Hegseth, Trump’s pick for the Pentagon, run into serious hurdles. Gabbard, Trump’s pick to become director of national intelligence (DNI),
Republican senators warn incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s (R-S.D.) ambitious proposal to tackle President-elect Trump’s agenda faces an array of disagreements within their party over strategy and policy. Republican senators are broadly amenable to moving quickly on
Don't let the classical Japanese RPG charms fool you—this one's tough.
Kolwezi has some of the world's largest copper and cobalt reserves and that makes it a key location at the heart of the U.S. and China's jostle for mineral supremacy on the African continent.
Experts are increasingly sounding the alarm on community "college deserts" that leave students without readily accessible higher education options. The deserts, locations where high schools are more than 30 miles away from all community colleges, disproportionately affect