One of India’s most prominent human rights activists made a surprising announcement this week, saying she would end a 15-year hunger strike against a law shielding the armed forces from prosecution.
It was almost midnight and President Rodrigo Duterte was in full flight at a news conference as he singled out a married TV reporter and told her: "You're again trying to catch my attention, aren't you?" Then, as she was asking him a question, he catcalled and tried a brief serenade. Most in the room laughed.
GGV Capital managing partner says China needs to bring more of them to commercialization
The first Indigenous woman elected to Australia's parliament has defended her decision to quit before the upcoming federal election.
Filmmakers find inspiration in love, nature, faith, trauma, other people, other movies. The German director Maren Adediscovered a muse for her latest, the sensational “Toni Erdmann” — a critical favorite at the 69th Cannes Film Festival — in an American comic who died in 1984: “I fell in love with Andy Kaufman.”
US Secretary of State John Kerry yesterday hailed Myanmar's transition to a civilian government steered by Ms Aung San Suu Kyi as a "remarkable statement" that furthers the cause of global democracy.
Blogger Monica Xu first began writing about lipstick on social media out of personal interest in 2014, as she was preparing for postgraduate studies in fashion.
Last year’s Cannes Film Festival was abuzz with the “heel gate” microscandal after a security guard reportedly wouldn’t let women wearing flats onto the red carpet. This year, Julia Roberts strode up the red-carpeted steps for the premiere of Jodie Foster’s “Money Monster” and revealed that beneath her gown she was barefoot.
For 34 years, Oprah Winfrey has been revisiting “The Color Purple,” as a reader, as a performer and as a producer. And yet, there she was on Tuesday night, in row F at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater, mouthing the words to the songs, waving her hands in the air, leading a mid-act standing ovation and weeping once again.
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop may have inadvertently allowed her partner to view "highly sensitive" documents by inviting him onto the floor of a United Nations (UN) meeting in New York last year.
Cruise ships regularly disgorge thousands of passengers to visit attractions beyond the docks, but in the case of Salerno, this ancient and gracious Italian city of 133,000 people south of Naples, the first must-see site may soon become the maritime terminal itself, created by the architect Zaha Hadid and inaugurated Monday.
Embattled Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff vowed to wage a "long" fight against impeachment as Congress moved closer to putting her on trial in a deepening political crisis.
Iraq-born architect’s most famous commissions include Vitra Fire Station in Germany and Guangzhou Opera House in China
Mr Htin Kyaw, the man chosen by Aung San Suu Kyi to serve as her proxy, was sworn in as Myanmar’s president on Wednesday (March 30) in a historic power shift away from outright army rule.
Myanmar's National League for Democracy (NLD) leader, Ms Aung San Suu Kyi, barred constitutionally from the country's top office, will take up the foreign affairs portfolio, reports quoting sources said as the deadline for announcing her party's candidate for president draws near.
Cinderella’s ball dress or the Revenant’s bearskin cloaks? This year’s nominees for the Oscar in costume design choose a garment or outfit that is emblematic of their team’s overall work
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