LIFESTYLE

MUMBAI — Veteran Bollywood actor and director Manoj Kumar has died at the age of 87 in India’s financial capital, Mumbai. The actor died of “age-related health issues”, Dr Santosh Shetty of Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, where the actor was admitted, said. His son, Kunal Goswami, told ANI news agency that Kumar had been battling […]

LOS ANGELES — Disney’s live-action version of the classic fairy-tale Snow White has topped the North American box office chart despite a slew of underwhelming reviews. The movie has taken an estimated $87.3m (£67.5m) globally during its opening weekend, according to Box Office Mojo. Almost half of that figure came from North America. But that

SEOUL — South Korean K-pop group NewJeans have announced they are taking a break from all activities, after a court ruled against them in their ongoing dispute with their record label Ador. The five-piece, who have attempted to rebrand as NJZ, announced during a show at ComplexCon Hong Kong on Sunday that “this will be

SEOUL — A South Korean court has ruled against chart-topping K-pop group NewJeans which had sought to cut ties with its record label Ador. The court said the band, which had renamed themselves NJZ and began organizing their own appearances, must not conduct any independent activities — from making music to signing advertising deals. Earlier

MIAMI — After nine months in space, Nasa astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have finally arrived back on Earth. Their SpaceX capsule made a fast and fiery re-entry through the Earth’s atmosphere before four parachutes opened to take them to a gentle splashdown off the coast of Florida. A pod of dolphins circled the

BRUSSELS — Award-winning Belgian actress Émilie Dequenne has died from cancer at the age of 43. Dequenne shot to fame when she won the best actress award at the Cannes Film Festival at the age of 18 for the film Rosetta in 1999. She won another Cannes award for À Perdre la Raison (Our Children)

BRISBANE — An Australian man lived for 100 days with an artificial titanium heart while he awaited a donor transplant, the longest period to date of someone with the technology. The patient, a man in his 40s who declined to be identified, received the implant during surgery at St. Vincent’s Hospital Sydney last November. In

SIDHPUR, India — The dusty highway leading to Sidhpur, in western India’s Gujarat state, winds through arid landscapes past roadside eateries and herds of lumbering camel, offering little hint of what the historic town holds. In the heart of Sidhpur lies a street lined with stately three- and four-story mansions, known as “havelis,” in

SEOUL — South Korean singer Wheesung was found dead on Monday at his home in Seoul. He was 43. The singer was found in a state of a cardiac arrest, authorities said, adding that a “significant amount of time” had passed before his body had been discovered. They noted that there were no signs of

WASHINGTON — A private US company says it has landed a spacecraft close to the Moon’s South Pole but fears the machine is not upright. The Athena spacecraft is communicating with Earth, but is not in the “correct attitude”, Intuitive Machines chief executive said in a press conference. The company hopes the scientific instruments on