6+ hour, 51+ min ago   (359+ words) NEW DELHI, Sept 14 — “I’m happy, very happy. The people are looking at me. At least they see me. My face, my face is being shown all around the world,” said M.Rehman, who played the piano for Prime Minister Datuk…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (699+ words) GEOJE, South Korea, Sept 10 — Jin So-hee had to suffer to join the centuries-old tradition of South Korean women diving to harvest seafood. But she is now part of a new generation to earn a place in the waves. The nation’s…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (669+ words) VENICE, Sept 10 — Ambitious in its scale and style and dogged by controversy, Dau by filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovsky revisits decades of Soviet Union totalitarianism through the eyes of one of the 20th century’s great physicists. Premiering yesterday at the Venice Film Festival,…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (242+ words) MARSEILLE, Sept 8 — Two thieves broke into a museum dedicated to French impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir in southern France today, stealing “four works of art”, one of which they dropped as they fled, a mayor said. “This morning, two individuals broke…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (449+ words) LONDON, Sept 5 — The British Museum yesterday insisted the Bayeux Tapestry’s condition was “virtually unchanged” after France said two broken threads had been noticed following the centuries-old embroidery’s move to London. The 11th-century work will be displayed at the British Museum…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (525+ words) SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 5 — Tetris said yesterday that it did not give permission for the White House to use the game’s iconic imagery for a controversial online arcade that the Trump administration released on Thursday. “The Tetris Company was not involved…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (613+ words) RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept 5 — Marcelo Nogueira is not well versed in the classics but the 27-year-old Brazilian book influencer was seduced by Fyodor Dostoevsky’s White Nights, a 19th-century tale of love and loneliness at the centre of an unlikely TikTok…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (630+ words) KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 4 — Stories can be told in many ways — through the lens of a camera, the rhythm of music, or the strokes of a brush that bring legends and imagination to life. Japanese folklore takes centre stage in Kuala…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (468+ words) PARIS, Sept 1 — A prominent singer has returned to Iran after nearly two decades in exile, as authorities encourage artists living abroad to return home in a show of patriotism against the backdrop of the conflict with the United States. Mohsen…...

2+ week, 3+ hour ago   (463+ words) HONG KONG, Aug 31 — Tam Mei Kam, the mother of late Cantopop star Anita Mui, died yesterday at the age of 102 after reportedly choking while eating at her residence on Leighton Road. Emergency services received a call at about 10.48am reporting that…...