The UAE has long had a starring role in Indian cinema. With about 4.3 million Indians calling the Emirates home, perhaps it is no surprise that filmmakers have repeatedly turned to the country as both a setting and a backdrop.
As a lonely teenager, the novels of Nancy Mitford offered the Sorrow and Bliss author a lifeline - and an imaginary friend. She explores why reading can create a particularly intense bond with a favourite writer
Singer Gal De Paz, runner-up on this year’s season of Rising Star, has been cast as Israeli musical icon Shoshana Damari in a new biographical musical.
Caroline Langford, the British-born actress who became a familiar face in Israeli cinema in the 1980s and was married to the late actor and director Assi Dayan, died Friday at the age of 68 after suffering from cancer.
Being recognised by the Brits, Grammys and Drake made the singer one of British music’s most famous names – and also left her exhausted. Now, after decompressing in her home town she returns with a record made for raving
The new mayor of Chungju, North Chungcheong Province, is trying to carry forward the city’s unconventional social media legacy, built under his predecessor, by dressing up, dancing and lip-syncing in an 18-second promotional video.
BANGKOK — A local government office building, a 7-Eleven convenience store and a stolen vehicle were burned in the 51 attacks, according to the military's Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC) and local media reports.
Soprano Sumi Jo joined a list of Korean cultural and sporting icons — among them BTS, Son Heung-min, Faker, Seventeen and An Se-young — honored with commemorative medals by the Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation (KOMSCO), which last week released a medal marking the 40th anniversary of her debut on the …
President of Iran Masoud Pezeshkian takes questions from the media during a news conference in New York on Sept. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis, File)
On a typically sizzling summer weeknight, the bar-and-restaurant strip of Tel Aviv’s historic Nahalat Binyamin near the Carmel Shuk got a little more colorful – and a lot more feline. Friends and admirers packed in to see the latest paintings from mixed-media artist Risa Brooke Oze, whose series Kat World turns Isra…
View image in fullscreenScottish Opera’s The Galloping Cure tackles the opioid crisis with direct but sophisticated musical language – and some black comedy. Read the reviewShareView image in fullscreenFreddie Meredith’s debut hour Need a Light? unpacks masculinity and more with his smoking-area-philosopher alter eg…
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Yonhap) -- Admissions for the latest Spider-Man film and Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" were each nearing the 10 million mark in South Korea, data showed Sunday.
Palestinian vice president Hussein al-Sheikh has said the decision to hold legislative elections in November will not be reversed, while ruling out Hamas’ participation as enshrined in the Gaza disarmament plan, Palestinian media reports said.
At 85, the actor has lived through much political upheaval. But, she writes, today’s hostile times feel like ‘the worst yet’. She reflects on her journey from teenage Tory to full-throated leftist – and says there’s still time to save the nation from the bad guys
Letter written in 1847 to Sandbach, Tinne and Company’s Liverpool office reveals it engaged in practice after receiving taxpayer-funded compensation, book says
When Tetsuichiro Tsuta’s Buddhist parable “Black Ox” was released in January, it was hard to imagine that we’d see a more perfectly Zen movie this year. However, it faces some stiff competition from “Masayume,” the entrancing debut feature by filmmaker and dancer Nao Yoshigai.
Art events are continuing across the UAE this summer, with galleries and institutions in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah presenting a range of exhibitions.
South Korean police have been using drones to assist in searches for missing individuals, in one case allowing Gyeonggi officers to locate a woman in just half an hour, according to a local media outlet on Sunday.
Boston Symphony Orchestra music director Andris Nelsons rehearses with the orchestra at Symphony Hall, Nov. 20, 2014, in Boston. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
EDJOP. The real Edgar Jopson with Gloria "Joy" Asuncion (left 2 photos); Elijah Canlas as Edjop, and Frankie Pangilinan (right photo) as Joy in the film, Edjop, in cinemas on September 16, 2026.
For Mel Schneider and her kids, it is difficult to do spontaneous things such as a movie night or a family holiday – things most families don’t even have to think about.