Croatia's famed football coach Miroslav Blazevic -- who led the country to a third-place finish at the 1998 World Cup -- died on Wednesday, the national football federation said.. From 1994 to 2000, Blazevic took the helm of the national team and racked up a number of impressive wins, including a third-place finish at the 1998 World Cup in France.
The "Harry Potter" universe welcomes its latest edition on Friday, the "Hogwarts Legacy" video game, which provides a big test of the resilience of a franchise hit by criticism from some LGBTQ activists over the views of author JK Rowling.. He described the forthcoming game as a mix of Harry Potter's universe and the "open worlds" of the "Grand Theft Auto" video game franchise.
Britain's Royal Mail on Wednesday unveiled the first postage stamps to feature the image of King Charles III, following his ascension to the throne last September.. Retailers will continue to sell their existing stamps featuring the late queen, and be supplied with the new ones when current Royal Mail stocks have run out.
Acclaimed conductor Gustavo Dudamel will lead the New York Philharmonic for five years from 2026, the orchestra announced Tuesday.. Dudamel will take on the role of music director designate in the 2025–26 season before adopting the lead role in season 2026-27.
"Fawlty Towers", named Britain's greatest sitcom in a 2019 poll, is set to return with John Cleese reprising his role as the world's most irascible hotelier, US producers said Tuesday.. In 2019, the show was named the greatest British sitcom ever by a panel of TV experts for "Radio Times" magazine.
French literary star Michel Houellebecq is seeking a ban on a sexually explicit film awaiting release and featuring the writer, his lawyers said Tuesday.. The couple had launched legal proceedings, "civil and criminal", to ban the film, scheduled for release in March, and the trailer with its "defamatory" commentary, they said.
A 10-year-old French-Japanese boy will become the first officially recognised dual-national kabuki actor, following in the footsteps of his grandfather, a star of the traditional art form.. It is the first time a dual national has officially become a kabuki actor, although Ichimura Uzaemon who was adopted into a kabuki family in 1878 is said to have had a French-American father.
The Dutch master Johannes Vermeer himself never got the chance to see so many of his paintings in the same place.. The magic of the master is still bewitching for staff at the Rijksmuseum.
As the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam unveils the largest ever retrospective of Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer, we look at five highlights from the show.. Johannes Vermeer was a master of light.
Hollywood star George Clooney is to direct an English-language remake of hit French spy series "The Bureau". . "The Bureau" was a huge international hit for French producer Canal+, sold to more than 100 countries and praised even by France's real-life spy agency, the DGSE, for its realism.
