Few stars from Hindi cinema are remembered as warmly as Madhubala, and few careers carry quite the same mixture of triumph and sadness. She was born Mumtaz Jehan Begum Dehlavi…
How does an actor stay a romantic hero for six decades, outlasting the stars he debuted alongside and still directing films in his late eighties? Dev Anand did it by…
There is a particular kind of fame that does not fade when the films stop. Audrey Hepburn has it. More than thirty years after her death, her face still sells…
Kimi Antonelli became Formula 1's youngest-ever world champion on Sunday, November 1, 2026, finishing third for Mercedes at the Mexico City Grand Prix to seal the drivers' title at 20…
Bangladesh's garment factories briefly resumed operations on Monday, November 2, 2026, after a widespread shutdown the previous day, but fresh clashes between workers and police forced hundreds of plants to…
North Korean state media said North Korea will resume propaganda loudspeaker broadcasts along the border with South Korea within October, while South Korea's Defence Ministry said Seoul would respond sternly…
Nigeria has confirmed its first case of Ebola in the current outbreak, after tests identified the Bundibugyo strain in a woman who arrived in the capital, Abuja, from Uganda on…
Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed in principle on Wednesday, 21 October, to resume United States-mediated peace talks with Ukraine, the Kremlin said, after meeting US special envoy Steve Witkoff for…
President Emmanuel Macron vowed on Wednesday, 21 October, to prevent a repeat of last weekend's violence in France, as protests driven by rising fuel prices, the cost of living and…
A judge in New Mexico on Wednesday ordered Meta Platforms, the owner of Facebook, to pay $25 billion after a jury found it had misled users about privacy, in what…
A supertanker caught fire after striking a sea mine south of the Strait of Hormuz, Iran's Revolutionary Guards Navy said on Tuesday, according to Iranian media reported by Reuters, in…
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday night that the United States is not negotiating with Iran and that "something" in the conflict would happen "fairly soon," as the State Department…
An attack on King Fahd International Airport in Dammam, in eastern Saudi Arabia, on Wednesday evening injured eight people and caused material damage, Saudi Arabia's General Authority of Civil Aviation…