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BTS has announced they will not submit any music at next year’s Grammy Awards. In June, the Recording Academy introduced five new categories, including Best Asian Pop Music Performance - prompting criticism Asian acts could be sidelined from top categories. (July 29)
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Visitors have been streaming to Dubai’s new Animal Welfare Shelter in Warsan, hoping to give stray cats permanent homes.
Under normal circumstances, BTS would be entering next year's Grammy Awards with their clearest chance yet of winning their first trophy after five previous nominations.
Louise Brealey teases out the playful and poetic moments of these shapeshifting stories, told from the perspective of the northeasterly wind and those it has wreaked chaos on through the ages
From Audrey Hepburn to Pedro Pascal, cellists have become a movie shorthand for sensitivity, intensity and emotional depth. But why has Hollywood turned one orchestral instrument into a character in its own right?
The conservative columnist Ross Douthat is the network’s latest perplexing hire – but the move is in line with the new leadership
A vegan festival aiming to raise money for rescued animals has been cancelled after a complaint was sent to its venue by controversial lobby group UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI).
Hollywood studios have fallen under the influence of influencers. And why wouldn’t they? Increasingly, major studios are cutting peskily unpredictable journalists and critics out of their pre-release strategies in a world where a movie-loving TikToker named Straw Hat Goofy might be the industry’s new Pauline Kael.
The Wednesday headlines were brutal: “Ten Women Accuse Jared Leto of Sexual Misconduct in BBC Report” (New York Times). “4 women accuse U.S. actor Jared Leto of committing sexual offenses when they were teens; he denies it” (CBS News).
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Boeing is reluctant to share the technology used in the warheads it manufactures for the Patriot PAC-3 interceptor missiles which Ukraine and its Western supporters want to manufacture in Europe, German media outlet Die Welt has reported, citing sources.
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George Clooney appears at the screening of the film “The Boys In The Boat” in London on Dec. 3, 2023. (Photo by Alberto Pezzali/Invision/AP, File)
To coincide with a new exhibition in London about the Davies brothers, we rate the best of a band who brought a sociologist’s eye to hard rock, gentle pastoralia and so much in between
A senior Russian Industry and Trade Ministry official overseeing drone development has been arrested and placed in pre-trial detention, Russian media reported Thursday.
Valery Kustov, founder and majority shareholder of major Russian agribusiness group Efko, has been arrested in Moscow in connection with a fraud investigation alongside several of the company’s executives and a senior Industry and Trade Ministry official, Russian media reported Thursday.
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Too $hort poses for a portrait on Tuesday, July 28, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Surging operational costs and strained municipal budgets are forcing mainland transit authorities to review long-suppressed fares
Surging operational costs and strained municipal budgets are forcing mainland transit authorities to review long-suppressed fares
The novelist suggested Wilson should have been ‘a wee bit more thoughtful and respectful’ towards a film-maker who may have helped her book sales
Hundreds of migrants have entered the Spanish north African exclave of Ceuta by sea in recent days, officials said Thursday, with local television images showing them swimming around the frontier and running into the town.
Every story from Gaza is a record of what no human being should experience in a just world. We can conceptualise war, bombing and mass killing in the abstract. We are inundated with images of all three. But focus on the experience of any one person and comprehension begins to fail.
Every story from Gaza is a record of what no human being should experience in a just world. We can conceptualise war, bombing and mass killing in the abstract. We are inundated with images of all three. But focus on the experience of any one person and comprehension begins to fail.
Why Julia Roberts’ actor brother did not attend his daughter’s wedding, and his complex relationship with the American Horror Story star and her mum
Why Julia Roberts’ actor brother did not attend his daughter’s wedding, and his complex relationship with the American Horror Story star and her mum
(American Dogwood/Empire)Beneath the Hollywood narrators, Pink Floyd-y interludes and accompanying comic books lies songwriting that proves the Tipsy singer’s breakout success was no fluke
The book, Antiquities of Athens, was handed back to Kiama library by a man who found it bricked into a wall
Former hostage Evyatar David spoke out for the first time since returning home, discussing his complicated rehabilitation process in a social media post on Thursday.
Story amasses 24 million views; while some praise Cui for upholding moral standards, others question role of employers in personal matters
Story amasses 24 million views; while some praise Cui for upholding moral standards, others question role of employers in personal matters
As renewed attacks between Iran and the US expand into Iraq and Yemen, the Hamshahri daily, which has close ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), has dedicated its front page to a report on the force's speedboats in the Gulf.
KUMAMOTO — Twenty-five cats stuck inside a shopping mall in Japan gutted in an explosion after a major earthquake have been rescued, the operator said Thursday, triggering huge relief on social media.
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Big names including Raye and Suede face off against smaller artists such as Knats and Nia Archives for prestigious album award
In this photo provided by Catherine Taylor a page of the book “Antiquities of Athens,” stamped by a library, is shown on Thursday, July 30, 2026, after its return in Kiama, Australia, an estimated 150 years late. (Catherine Taylor via AP)
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As if there aren’t enough problems with Victoria’s legal system, a magistrate has now been rapped over the knuckles for making disparaging remarks about a lawyer’s fashion sense.
The Hallyu-era TV star plays a mystery man in Daishi Matsunaga's 'Criminal,' now streaming on Prime Video
Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan recently met Khalil al-Hayya, the new leader of Hamas, according to Turkish state-run media reports.
MK Sharren Haskel was summoned by Lahav 433 to testify regarding the election of the State Comptroller, which the High Court of Justice ruled invalid, Israeli media reported on Thursday.
Suzu Hirose is an all but ubiquitous presence in the Japanese entertainment industry these days.
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The boy group's decision not to seek Grammy consideration renews scrutiny of the Recording Academy's new Asian pop category
MANILA, Philippines — Star Magic has issued a statement to clarify a resurfaced interview featuring Kim Chiu and her sister, saying the actress' remarks were made years before she uncovered alleged financial irregularities that led to a criminal complaint against Lakambini "Lakam" Chiu.