Entertainment & Arts
New film captures Afghan women’s courage in failed peace talks with Taliban
By Jenna Zucker Reuters The new documentary “The Sharp Edge of Peace” begins with a harrowing scene: Fawzia Koofi, a former member ...Death toll in Bangladesh building fire rises to 46
By Ruma Paul Reuters A massive fire in Bangladesh that raged through a six-storey building home to restaurants where many families with ...World welcomes New Year with fireworks, some stark words and a royal farewell
New Zealanders were among the first in the world to celebrate the arrival of 2024 with a fireworks display in Auckland on ...Employees can be banned from wearing headscarves, EU court rules
The top European Union court ruled on Tuesday that public authorities in member states can prohibit employees from wearing signs of religious ...India’s top court declines to legalise same-sex marriage
India’s top court on Tuesday said it cannot legalise same-sex marriages, with the chief justice of the country saying making such a ...Hollywood shuts down as actors go on strike
The Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) issued a strike order after last-ditch talks with studios on their demands over dwindling pay and the ...Taliban administration orders beauty salons in Afghanistan to close
The Taliban administration in Afghanistan has ordered beauty salons to close within a month, the morality ministry said, in the latest shrinking ...South Koreans become a year or two younger as traditional way of counting age scrapped
South Koreans became a year or two younger on Wednesday as new laws that require using only the international method of counting ...Eurovision 2023: Sweden’s Loreen wins for a second time
Sweden’s Loreen won Eurovision 2023 with the song “Tattoo” in Liverpool, northern England, on Saturday, becoming the first woman to triumph twice ...‘Donald Trump raped me,’ writer says at civil trial
A writer explained in graphic detail on Wednesday how Donald Trump allegedly raped her nearly 30 years ago, at a civil trial ...