When a police officer with more than two decades' service took her life, it set a young detective down a path that would leave him disillusioned about the force's culture and accountability.
A grieving father in southeastern China became a citizen watchdog after a collision killed his nine-year-old daughter. On August 1, Wu Zhisheng’s wife was riding an electric bike with their two young daughters through an intersection in Jiangxi province when a turning tipper truck struck them. Their elder daughter, …
By Christopher Borrelli Seventy years ago, Godzilla, King of the Monsters! debuted in Chicago theatres as half of a double bill with a Roger Corman prison flick, Swamp Women. Infamously, the monster movie underwent an extensive facelift between its Japanese premiere in 1954 and its landfall in the United States two …
To celebrate the launch of the Baka Artists' Community dedicated to olim, Jerusalemites showed their enthusiastic support at the exhibition venue, the Greater Baka Community Center.
The forthcoming festival is officially the third full-blown edition, although it was preceded by a smaller water-testing debut with no thoughts of the future.
Unveiled at Sharjah International Book Fair, Al Julanda tells the story of a 19th-century Al Qasimi figure whose life was marked by adventure, exile and lost love
Today’s political conversation is dominated by one topic above all: race. The Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik has been way ahead of the pack in diagnosing how immigrants, their children and grandchildren are reshaping not just politics but western societies. On the latest episode of Radical Thinking with Aditya Cha…
In China’s competitive dating market, a new matchmaking start-up is staking its revenue on a bold wager: find true love, or get every penny back. Launched in July, Liangpei AI charges an annual membership fee of 2,000 yuan (US$300), which is fully refundable if a user remains unmarried after three years. The offer i…
There’s more grey hair out here now and more confidence on stage. It’s as if the stasis anxiety in Barnett’s songs is exorcised in the act of simply doing what she does.
“A lot of my work has a sort of Monty Python double edge,” David Breuer-Weil says. “At first, it may be quite amusing, but there’s a deeper thing behind it.”
A new collection of gold coins designed by First Nations artist Ryhia Dank is bringing language and culture to Australians in a bid to spark curiosity and strengthen language revitalisation.
How a childhood hip-hop fan became one of Israel’s premier extreme vocalists, and why his underground metal band Submasq refuses to play by the industry’s political rules.
Pianist Shai Maestro served as the music producer and artistic director for the album. The Raft will be distributed through the record label owned by bassist Avishai Cohen and his manager.
GUAM — Guam delegate-elect Alicia Garrido Limtiaco clarified that she is CHamoru and not Filipino, but stressed that Filipinos hold a special place in her heart and in Guam, where generations of Filipino families helped shape the island's history, economy, and culture.
Videos showing a glowing Guanyin, or Goddess of Mercy, carried by a drone and another similar device disguised as a crane have attracted significant attention on Chinese social media. Together, the two devices recreate the traditional funeral send-off in which the deceased is said to “ascend to heaven.” In China, a …
Data from across all Victorian secondary schools reveals a stark trend of the damage bullying can do to schools and the preventative role a strong school culture has.
China’s pet scene has found its digital answer to cottagecore icon Li Ziqi – “Meow Ziqi,” a social media account featuring three AI-generated cats that cook traditional Chinese dishes and practise heritage crafts. Since bursting onto the scene in April, the account has amassed over 1.76 million followers and more th…
TV TIME: A forgotten Jewish refugee whose actions preceded Kristallnacht, Jon Hamm's gripping new hostage drama, and a Netflix thriller that struggles to match The White Lotus.
The recent American midterm elections offered yet another glimpse into a political culture increasingly defined by division and hostility. In the state of Ohio, Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy ran an attack advertisement against his Democratic rival, Amy Acton, exploiting painful details of her ch…
All across Asia, anti-establishment protests have been flaring up, led by a generation that came of age in the digital era. Memes are mobilising a young, permanently online cohort against specific government policies, insults and injustices – its many members determined to seize their own destinies before the future…
EAT THIS The Magic Table – Las Vegas Edition Grand Hyatt Hong Kong brings back its Magic Table dining extravaganza this autumn with a dose of Las Vegas flair. Guided virtually by Austrian magician-mentalist duo The Clairvoyants – stars of America’s Got Talent – the experience reimagines the relationship between fine…
A journey into Nagtipunan, Quirino shows how the Bugkalot people left their fierce headhunting past behind to become a community centered around faith and bayanihan
Met police chief says ‘many more’ victims could come forward, as actor and comedian awaits sentencing Police are bracing themselves for more victims of Russell Brand to come forward, with at least 10 more women suspected of having been attacked by the disgraced star.Brand, 51, will be sentenced on Monday to what is …
From ancient desert settlements to poetry and music, the term for oasis reflects the enduring importance of water, shelter and tranquillity in Arab culture
A museum dedicated to Moroccan Jewish culture has officially opened its doors to the public in Fez, a city which was a center of culture, learning and spirituality since the ninth century
Sincere or self-serving, the disgraced comedian’s case shows how the church became a culture war frontierThe women whom Russell Brand raped and sexually assaulted have for weeks endured the ordeal of a heavily publicised trial. Throughout, Brand held online prayer meetings with followers. Does he feel Christian symp…