Tehran (AP) — Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, whose 1997 film Taste of Cherry won the prestigious Palme d’Or and who kept working despite government resistance, died Monday. He was 76. Iran’s official news agency IRNA said Kiarostami died in Paris,…
Entertainment Desk Activist and writer Elie Wiesel, the World War Two death camp survivor who won a Nobel Peace Prize for becoming the life-long voice of millions of Holocaust victims, died on Saturday. He was 87. Wiesel was a philosopher,…
Entertainment Desk It all started when she tried to hide her baby bump at an event. Rumour mills have been abuzz with the news of Kareena Kapoor Khan’s pregnancy. The actress, however, neither denied nor confirmed it and kept the…
Entertainment Desk Led Zeppelin did not steal a riff from an obscure 1960s instrumental for the introduction of its classic rock anthem “Stairway to Heaven,” a federal jury decided on Thursday, legally settling a debate that has divided music fans…
Entertainment Desk Italian actor Bud Spencer, who starred in a string of spaghetti westerns, died on Monday in Rome aged 86, his family confirmed. “With our deepest regrets, we have to tell you that Bud is flying to his next…
With her cut-glass cheekbones, porcelain skin and cascading flaxen locks, it is hard to imagine a better choice to play Tarzan’s love interest than Australian actress Margot Robbie. But the 25-year-old, who appears as Jane in “The Legend of Tarzan,”…
Entertainment Desk Celebrated Brazilian musician Gilberto Gil was released Friday from a Sao Paulo hospital where he was treated over the past week for kidney problems. Gil, 73, on his Instagram account posted a photo showing the rear of a…
Items owned by the late television host and female comedian Joan Rivers fetched $2.2 million at a New York auction on Wednesday. The top lot was a jeweled, gold-mounted Faberge photograph frame from late 19th century Russia which fetched $245,000…
Entertainment Desk Actor Liam Neeson warned that Britain leaving the European Union would have a dire impact on his native Northern Ireland in a statement released to AFP on Wednesday. “A UK exit would have the worst ramifications for the…
Anton Yelchin, a rising young actor who starred as Chekov in the new “Star Trek” film, was killed on Sunday in a freak car accident, his publicist said. He was 27. “The news is so sad and true,” Jennifer Allen…
Entertainment Desk After a hiatus of 10 years, Sakhawat Hossain Nirob and Zakia Bari Momo, two popular faces of the Bangladeshi film industry, are bringing back their on-screen chemistry through Rafiq Shikdar’s film. Nirob, the model-turned-TV actor and Momo, the…
Entertainment Desk Daddy dearest Saif Ali Khan took his kids, Sara Ali Khan and Ibrahim Ali Khan, for a game of tennis recently. Sara avoided the photographers as the family entered a suburban gymkhana, while Ibrahim smiled for the shutterbugs…
Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page told a court Wednesday he hadn’t heard a song he is accused of plagiarizing for the iconic “Stairway to Heaven” until a few years ago. Page and bandmate Robert Plant are accused of stealing the…
When the French actress Melanie Laurent read a now famous 2012 paper by leading scientists warning that the Earth’s climate was reaching a tipping point from which it may never recover, she sat down and wept. “I was pregnant, and…
Entertainment Desk Biopics of famous individuals have a habit of disgorging unpleasant memories from people’s lives. Rajkumar Hirani’s upcoming biopic on veteran Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt will be no exception. However, this seems to alarm the ageless Bollywood diva Madhuri…
The gunman who killed singer Christina Grimmie, a former contestant on the popular TV show “The Voice,” traveled to Orlando, Florida, apparently intending to attack her, police said Saturday. Armed with two handguns, ammunition and a hunting knife, the suspect,…
Entertainment Desk Actress Kareena Kapoor, who will be seen in upcoming film “Udta Punjab”, has dismissed rumours about her pregnancy. Some of the actress’s pictures had recently sparked rumours that she is pregnant. When asked if the news of motherhood…
Boxing legend Muhammad Ali made his final journey through his hometown, Louisville on Friday, as thousands of mourners along the route chanted, “Ali! Ali!” for the former heavyweight champion known simply as The Greatest. At a Muslim funeral for Ali…
Ed Sheeran accepts the award for Song of the Year for ”Thinking Out Loud” at the 58th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California February 15, 2016. Reuters Two California-based musicians are suing British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran for $20 million over…
Entertainment Desk Great British Bake Off judge Mary Berry and actress Angelina Jolie Pitt will be guest editors of BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour later this month. Footballer Eniola Aluko, Scottish poet Jackie Kay and novelist Sunetra Gupta are also…
Snoop Dogg has returned to his rap roots—as well as his familiar love of marijuana—as he released a new song Tuesday and detailed his upcoming album. “Coolaid,” which will come out on July 1, will be Snoop Dogg’s first hip-hop…
The state of Minnesota on Tuesday celebrated “Prince Day,” with residents encouraged to wear the music legend’s signature color purple on what would have been his 58th birthday. Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton, in a proclamation making June 7 this year…
Muhammad Ali’s doctor says the iconic boxer had been “having a tough time in the last year” before his death. The three-time world heavyweight champion, who had Parkinson’s disease for 32 years, died aged 74 from “septic shock due to…
Entertainment Desk Popular actress and model Orchita Sporshia recently spent four long hours inside a cupboard. She wasn’t trapped inside it, but did it for the sake of shooting in a play titled Rongin Didha. The shoot was carried out…
Boxing legend Muhammad Ali died of “septic shock due to unspecified natural causes”, his family has said. The three-time world heavyweight champion – one of the world’s greatest sporting figures – died on Friday night at a hospital in Phoenix,…
CNN wrote: His hands and his mouth were furiously fast. His skill as a boxer made him “The Greatest” in his mind and in the minds of many others. He antagonized opponents with his taunts, amused reporters with his boasts…
Quotes from around the world about the death of three-time heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali:
Muhammad Ali has died at the age of 74, a family spokesman has said. The former world heavyweight boxing champion, one of the world’s best-known sportsmen, had been in hospital in the US city of Phoenix in Arizona state.
Britain’s beloved cinematic singing nanny Mary Poppins will once again grace the big screens, this time with Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator and star of the Broadway smash-hit “Hamilton”, as her sidekick, Walt Disney Co saidon Tuesday. “Mary…
Entertainment Desk If she were still alive, Marilyn Monroe would have turned 90 years old on June 1. The screen siren died of a drug overdose at age 36 in 1962, just two years out from taking home a Golden…