Sixteen years after being portrayed as a power-hungry start-upper in “The Social Network” film, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is set for another damning on-screen depiction, this time as a ruthless Silicon Valley overlord. Hitting screens internationally from Wednesday, the follow-up movie “The Social Reckoning” by Aaron Sorkin delves into the darkest corners of Facebook’s legacy, […]
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Research into weight-loss drugs tipped for Nobel as award week opens
Research into hormones that regulate appetite is on everybody’s lips for the Nobel medicine prize, to be announced on Monday when the 2026 Nobel season kicks off. The winners of the six Nobel prizes for medicine, physics, chemistry, literature, peace and economics will be revealed daily from October 5-12. Monday’s medicine prize, to be announced […]
‘Verity’ kills, Cruise bombs in N. American movie theaters
The bookish thriller “Verity” cleaned up in its North American box office debut this weekend while Tom Cruise flopped in “Digger” playing a rich old guy who thinks he can save the world.”Verity,” an MGM film starring Dakota Johnson, Anne Hathaway and Josh Hartnett, took in $32.6 million in its first weekend, industry monitor Exhibitor […]
UK’s Glastonbury festival tickets sell out in 45 minutes
Tickets for next year’s Glastonbury music festival in the UK sold out in 45 minutes on Sunday, organisers said, with thousands rushing for sought-after tickets despite the hefty price tag.”Tickets for Glastonbury 2027 have now sold out,” the organisers posted on social media, less than an hour after the general sale began. The iconic festival […]
Music links past, present for Pedro Pascal’s cellist in ‘Behemoth!’
Pedro Pascal learned to play the cello for his starring role in upcoming film “Behemoth!” from Oscar-winning writer-director Tony Gilroy.”I was so taken by what the story was and the… intimacy of all of it, in the way that I guess how intimate it can feel to listen to music and to be guided by […]
Boisterous fashion week barnstorms ‘sleepy’ Nigerian capital
Nigerian models donned outfits of seemingly impossible amounts of fabric folded and moulded into massive silhouettes, or overlapping in shingled, feather-like patterns. The colourful, detailed textiles evoked Carnival — both Nigeria’s own, in the southeastern city of Calabar, or that of Rio de Janeiro fame — but were in fact splashing down a runway in […]
Fashion industry in ‘precarious moment’, says Vivienne Westwood supremo
Vivienne Westwood creative director Andreas Kronthaler said the fashion industry was in a “precarious moment” as he unveiled his latest Spring-Summer collection for the British house at Paris Fashion Week. Kronthaler, the Austrian widower of Vivienne Westwood who took over after her death, found inspiration from African fabrics and his own penchant for night gowns […]
Louvre launches appeal as part of new fundraising drive
The Louvre Museum in Paris launched what is expected to be one of many new public fundraising appeals on Thursday, asking for money to renovate a popular inner courtyard. The bosses of the creaking former palace, which was targeted by thieves last year, are hoping to raise 800,000 euros ($900,000) to overhaul the Cour du […]
London’s Bayeux Tapestry show to offer audio tour for blind people
The British Museum will provide an audio-described tour of the Bayeux Tapestry after a visually impaired man objected to lack of provision for the blind and partially-sighted. Yusuf Ali Osman, who is blind, had reportedly said the museum breached equalities laws in its display of the nearly 1,000-year-old artwork on loan from France. Following the […]