Driving down a desert road, fresh off a heartbreaking loss at the Grammy Awards in Las Vegas, Taiwanese designer Xiao Qing-yang and his daughter were already working on their next project.. "When we were travelling in Arizona, the desert was endless and there was one road.
Romantic comedies made Hugh Grant one of the most famous men in the world, but he has a few doubts about their premise. . "All those romantic comedies I made -- it would be very interesting to have the sequel now, which would presumably start with the divorce lawyers."
She was executed for killing the man who was trying to rape her.. "I don't know what system will come after this one, but I don't want it to use execution or torture."
The Russian music and performance collective Pussy Riot will receive this year's Woody Guthrie prize honoring art for social change, award organizers announced Thursday.. "It feels fitting to be awarded in the spirit of Woody, I think he would love Pussy Riot's anti-fascist message," said collective creator Nadya Tolokonnikova, in a statement sent to AFP by the artist's publicist.
Leading glaciologist Claude Lorius, whose Antarctica discoveries in the 1980s helped prove humanity's role in global warming, has died at 91.. From then on Lorius dedicated himself to mobilising the fight against global warming.
Almost 50 years after his famed tight-rope walk between the Twin Towers in New York, Philippe Petit still has his head in the clouds.. - 'Life of passion' - Petit says he keeps plans for possible tight-rope locations -- "extraordinary places... canyons, icebergs and incredible buildings" -- stored in a box at his home in New York state, where he has lived for decades.
A lioness towers over a seemingly dead hunter, her paws pinning his body to the ground.
After more than three decades in the classical music industry, British double bassist Chi-chi Nwanoku began grappling with the question that had troubled her for years: Why was she consistently the only Black musician onstage?. In 2015 Nwanoku took a leading role in creating a more diverse future for classical music, which, from musicians to conductors to repertoire, traditionally skews heavily white.
He has survived two impeachments, and kept prosecutors at bay over everything from the US Capitol riot to missing classified files.
Fake photos showing Ukraine's first lady sunbathing topless, incorrect video subtitles defaming Pakistani feminists for "blasphemy", slow-motion clips falsely depicting "drunk" female politicians -- a barrage of disinformation targets women in the public eye.. Last year, a fake image of Ukraine's First Lady Olena Zelenska lying topless on a beach in Israel was shared widely on Facebook, triggering criticism that she was having fun while her war-torn country was suffering.
