Belarus on Monday sentenced exiled opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya to 15 years in prison for spearheading historic protests against the former Soviet country's authoritarian leader.. Tikhanovskaya was part of a trio of women -- along with Maria Kolesnikova and Veronika Tsepkalo -- who spearheaded the protracted protest movement.
Former UK prime minister Boris Johnson has put his father Stanley forward for a knighthood, according to a report on Monday slammed by the Labour opposition as "outrageous".. I mean, I think the public will just think this is absolutely outrageous," he said, also querying what Stanley Johnson had done to deserve a knighthood.
A restaurant tucked away in the corner of a remote French island won a coveted three-star ranking in the latest edition of the Michelin Guide unveiled on Monday. . La Marine becomes one of only 29 restaurants in France to hold Michelin's top three-star ranking in the latest guide, which was unveiled in a ceremony in the eastern city of Strasbourg.
Guitarist Gary Rossington, the last remaining original member of US rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, died on Sunday, the band said.. Rossington was the only original member still with the band, which has continued to perform, with a festival date set for this month.
Stepping through the piles of books and fireproof document cases that line his overflowing three-storey home library, Brazilian collector Pedro Correa do Lago is the first to admit his life's passion is a bit crazy.. "I was a bit nervous -- a little unknown Brazilian writing a book on Proust," he says.
While James Cameron's ecological sci-fi fable "Avatar: The Way of Water" is vying for best picture at the Oscars, his fellow nominees in the documentary categories have been busy chronicling very real threats to our own planet.. The siblings told AFP that their Oscar nomination in the documentary short film category has been the cause for huge celebration in their remote homeland.
MGM's boxing drama "Creed III" scored an opening-round knockout this weekend, taking in an estimated $58.7 million to top North America's box office in one of the biggest debuts ever for a sports film.. The previous "Demon Slayer" film last year had a record debut for a non-English language feature, taking in $19.5 million, Variety reported.
Tunisian director Youssef Chebbi won the coveted Stallion of Yennenga award Saturday at the biennial pan-African Fespaco film festival for his murder mystery oeuvre "Ashkal".. The Stallion of Yennenga (Etalon d'or de Yennenga) is awarded for the fictional or documentary feature film judged best to depict African realities. bam-pid/blb/cw/lcm
Chris Rock finally hit back at Will Smith on Saturday in a brutal stand-up routine, a year after the actor slapped him in front of a global TV audience for the Oscars.. Rock, who at times appeared genuinely angry, said before last year, he had always loved Smith, first as a rapper, and then as an actor.
"Everything Everywhere All At Once" swept up yet more film prizes Saturday, as it was named best feature at the Spirit Awards -- one of the last major Hollywood ceremonies before next weekend's Oscars.. Among the films that could receive a late Oscars boost from their Spirit Award wins Saturday were best documentary "All the Beauty and the Bloodshed," best first feature "Aftersun," and best cinematography winner "Tar."
