It was the 79-year-old's second award for best picture at the festival after 2006's The Wind That Shakes the Barley.
Ukrainian singer Jamala won the 61st edition of annual Eurovision Song Contest here on Saturday night, beating other 26 singers in the international music show.
New York billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump scored major victories on Super Tuesday, winning at least 7 of 11 Republican primaries.
Struggling to fill the hole in revenues left by the plunge in the oil price, investors from the world's major oil-producing countries were among the biggest sellers of South Korean and Japanese stocks over the past year.
The film 'The Revenant' came out a big winner at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) film awards, on Sunday night, winning five awards.
Rapper Kendrick Lamar lead the early winners at Monday's Grammy awards with fouraccolades including one shared with Taylor Swift, while Justin Bieber and Ed Sheerancelebrated their first Grammy wins.
Online shopping among South Korean consumers posted a double-digit growth in 2015 as people increasingly use mobile phones in transactions of goods, a government report said on Tuesday.
At the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Saturday night, the journalism drama “Spotlight” won the top prize: outstanding performance by a cast.
Mortgage loans in South Korea posted the largest increase in 2015 due to record-low borrowing costs and eased regulations on mortgage financing, financial watchdog data showed Thursday.
Samsung Electronics, the world's largest smartphone maker, posted its first profit slump in five quarters as soft demand for smartphones dampened the company's Galaxy device sales and lowered prices of components such as chips and display panels.
Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio and Alejandro Iñárritu win
China gave awards to outstanding domestic and foreign scientists Friday, amid a government campaign encouraging innovation and more sophisticated industry.
South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said it expects a difficult business environment in 2016 due to weak global economic conditions and heightened competition in key businesses including memory chips and smartphones.
Corporate financing in South Korea jumped last month as companies increase sales of bonds amid low borrowing costs, financial watchdog data showed Tuesday.
Myanmar's Union Election Commission (UEC) on Monday released the first series of the result of the general election held on Sunday following the opening of the election results center in Nay Pyi Taw.
Retail sales in South Korea hit the highest in four months due to demand for consumer goods, indicating a full-fledged recovery in private consumption from a MERS outbreak, a government report showed Monday.
Kia Motors, a sister company of South Korea's top carmaker Hyundai Motor, posted a growth in operating profit for the first time in six quarters thanks to the launch of new models, a regulatory filing showed Friday.
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