LONDON — Dame Joan Plowright, one of Britain’s most celebrated stage and screen stars and the widow of Sir Laurence Olivier, has died at the age of 95. Her career spanned 60 years and included an Oscar nomination for the 1991 film Enchanted April. She married Olivier in 1961 after starring opposite him as his […]
KATHMANDU — Nepal has been celebrated globally for tripling its tiger population in a decade — but Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli thinks the country may have been too successful. “In such a small country, we have more than 350 tigers… We can’t have so many tigers and let them eat up humans,” he said
WASHINGTON — Every week, Rajesh PN Rao, a computer scientist, gets emails from people claiming they’ve cracked an ancient script that has stumped scholars for generations. These self-proclaimed codebreakers — ranging from engineers and IT workers to retirees and tax officers — are mostly from India or of Indian origin living abroad. All of them
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LOS ANGELES — David Lynch, an influential director known for his unique and surrealistic films and TV shows including “Blue Velvet” and “Twin Peaks,” has died. He was 78. His death was confirmed via his official Facebook page, where his family wrote: “It is with deep regret that we, his family, announce the passing of
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NEW DELHI — Indian Bollywood star Saif Ali Khan was recovering in hospital on Thursday after being stabbed repeatedly by an intruder at his home in Mumbai overnight. The 54-year-old actor underwent surgery after suffering six stab wounds in the attack, including two deep cuts in his back, according to doctors at Mumbai’s Lilavati Hospital.
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LOS ANGELES — At least 100,000 scores by the pioneering 20th century Austrian-American composer Arnold Schoenberg have been destroyed in the Los Angeles wildfires. The sheet music was kept at his family’s music production company — which burnt down in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood last week. While no original manuscripts were lost, the music owned
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SEOUL — The chart-topping K-pop band NewJeans may be prevented from signing advertising deals and other contracts after their record label filed an injunction against them. The five-piece are currently engaged in a fierce dispute with Ador, the entertainment company that formed their band in 2022. Last November, the group claimed their contracts were invalid,
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WASHINGTON — A bright comet could be visible in skies across the globe over the coming days for the first time in 160,000 years. Nasa said the future brightness of a comet is “notoriously hard” to predict, but that Comet C/2024 G3 (Atlas) could remain bright enough to be seen by the naked eye. On
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LOS ANGELES — The Duchess of Sussex’s new Netflix show has been postponed until March due to the Los Angeles wildfires, the streaming giant has announced. The lifestyle series, which was filmed in southern California, had been due to premiere on Wednesday. Netflix said it had offered its “full support” to Meghan’s request to delay
LOS ANGELES — The announcement of this year’s Oscar nominations has been delayed by two days because of the deadly wildfires raging in the Los Angeles area. It had been scheduled for Friday 17 January, but the stars and films up for Academy Awards will now be revealed on 19 January. The voting for the
