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Zaara Noor, 12, concentrates while competing in the preliminaries of the 92nd annual Scripps National Spelling Bee in National Harbor, Maryland, US, Tuesday. — Reuters

Word whiz kids tap memory tricks at US spelling bee

OXON HILL, Md., — Spelling savants traced letters onto their palms or gazed at the ceiling on Wednesday while racking their brains in hopes of advancing to the next level of the Scripps National Spelling Bee.Most of the starting field of 562 challengers aged 7 to 15 easily aced common words such as "ambition" and "fatality" on the second of three days of competition to stay in the running for the $50,000 cash jackpot. But some tripped over "telenovela," "junket" and "gracility.""This year I think I have a good chance of winning ... but ultimately there's always luck involved," said Navneeth Murali, 13, of Edison, New Jersey. "I studied much harder this year because I learned that I had potential last year."Murali...

May 29, 2019

Word whiz kids tap memory tricks at US spelling bee

Fiona Herbert, Countess of Carnarvon talks during an interview with Reuters at Highclere Castle in Hampshire, Britain, in this file photo. — Reuters

Mr Carson to recount 'Downton Abbey' tales at Highclere concert

NEWBURY, England — Mr Carson, the much-loved butler in hit period drama "Downton Abbey", has lived through the tales of love and tragedy that have beset the British household during its six series on television screens.Now he will recount his memories of serving the Crawley family in a concert next month at the Highclere Castle venue, where the award-winning series set in the early Twentieth Century and its upcoming movie adaptation were filmed.With the show's composer John Lunn on piano, the Chamber Orchestra of London will perform "Music From Downton Abbey" on June 22, some three months before the highly-anticipated "Downton Abbey" film is released. Actor Jim Carter, who plays Carson, will host the concert in character."The (concept) is that Lord...

May 29, 2019

Mr Carson to recount 'Downton Abbey' tales at Highclere concert

Director Bong Joon-ho, Palme d'Or award winner for his film

Cannes winner 'Parasite' captures rich-poor gap in 'basic unit of life'

SEOUL — The South Korean director of "Parasite", the darkly comic movie that won the top Palme d'Or prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival, described his film on Tuesday as "a candid portrayal of the rich and the poor.""Parasite" is a wickedly humorous suspense movie about class struggles set in modern South Korea, following a down-on-its-luck family of four who worm their way into jobs in a wealthy household."I think we're touching on courtesy toward human beings, human dignity. Whether one becomes parasitic, or symbiotic and coexistent in the best sense, I think might depend on how much courtesy one has toward human beings," director Bong Joon-ho said in a press conference in Seoul.The unanimous decision to award...

May 29, 2019

Cannes winner 'Parasite' captures rich-poor gap in 'basic unit of life'

Tsunekazu Ishihara, chief executive of the Pokemon Company, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo, Japan on Wednesday. — Reuters

Gotta catch some shuteye: Pokemon unveils 'sleep game'

Tokyo — Having trouble waking up in the morning? Not getting enough sleep? The company that brought you Pokemon Go may have a solution: a game "played" by sleeping.Pokemon Company said on Wednesday it would release a new smartphone game called "Pokemon Sleep" in 2020, turning sleep into entertainment.The firm created the wildly popular Pokemon Go app, a game that let players walking the real world hunt virtual Pokemon, in 2016."Now we set our sights on sleeping," president Tsunekazu Ishihara told reporters."It's a game with which you look forward to waking up," he said."Turning sleeping... into entertainment is our next goal."Ishihara offered little detail on the game, but Nintendo -- which helped develop Pokemon Go -- said during the...

May 29, 2019

Gotta catch some shuteye: Pokemon unveils 'sleep game'

Saud Al-Eidi arrives at King Abdul Aziz International Airport in Jeddah

Heroes welcome for 2 Saudi climbers

JEDDAH — Two Saudis did their country proud by scaling the world’s highest mountain peak with a height of some 8,850 meters.Saud Al-Eidi and Mona Shahab were accorded a warm welcome when they returned home on Monday.Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Saudi Climbing and Hiking Federation (SCHF) Prince Bandar Bin Khalid Bin Fahd Al-Saud hosted a reception for them.The reception was attended by Chairwoman of the Board of Directors of the Saudi Special Olympics Federation Princess Reema Bint Bandar Bin Sultan, the CEO of the Federation Yasmin Al-Qahtani and many staff members of the General Sports Authority, the Saudi Federation and prominent figures.The two champions reached the summit last Thursday. The trip took 60 days on the Himalayas.Saud Al-Eidi said he was able to climb to...

May 28, 2019

Heroes welcome for 2 Saudi climbers

WHO recognizes 'burn-out' as medical condition

GENEVA — The World Health Organization has for the first time recognized "burn-out" in its International Classification of Diseases (ICD), which is widely used as a benchmark for diagnosis and health insurers.The decision, reached during the World Health Assembly in Geneva, which wraps up on Tuesday, could help put to rest decades of debate among experts over how to define burnout, and whether it should be considered a medical condition.In the latest update of its catalogue of diseases and injuries around the world, WHO defines burn-out as "a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed."It said the syndrome was characterized by three dimensions: "1) feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion; 2)...

May 27, 2019

WHO recognizes 'burn-out' as medical condition

Canadian actor Mena Massoud and British actress Naomi Scott attend the World Premiere of Disney’s “Aladdin” at El Capitan theater in Hollywood. — AFP

Disney's live-action 'Aladdin' casts a box-office spell

Los Angeles — "Aladdin" apparently still has the old magic, as the new Disney film took in an estimated $86.1 million in the Friday-to-Sunday period in North America to lead all box-office offerings, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations reported.The film, released on the US's four-day Memorial Day weekend, is expected to earn $105 million when Monday's ticket sales are included, well beyond earlier estimates of around $80 million, according to the Hollywood Reporter.The live-action movie, directed by Guy Ritchie, stars Will Smith as the genie and the Egyptian-born Canadian actor Mena Massoud as the wily charmer who pretends to be a prince to catch the attention of the lovely Jasmine (Naomi Scott).The new version is an adaptation of Disney's 1992 "Aladdin,"...

May 27, 2019

Disney's live-action 'Aladdin' casts a box-office spell

Directors Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, 'Best Director' award winners for their film

Cannes legends the Dardenne brothers win best director

BRUSSELS — Belgium's Dardenne brothers, already Cannes legends, with two Palme d'Or prizes under their belt, added to their tally on Saturday with the best director award for their story of a radicalized Muslim youth, "Young Ahmed".After "Rosetta" in 1999 and "L'Enfant" in 2005, "we're starting with a serious handicap," joked Jean-Pierre Dardenne in an interview with AFP before leaving for Cannes.For a film, "Cannes can be a loudspeaker or the Terminator," he said of Cannes' notoriously picky journalists and critics whose opinions can make or break a movie.Their "Young Ahmed", which premiered at the festival, is a tight and tense tale of a teenager who embraces extremism, a sensitive topic in their native...

May 26, 2019

Cannes legends the Dardenne brothers win best director

British actress Emily Beecham poses during a photo-call with her trophy after she won the Best Actress Prize for her part in

Britain's Beecham joins A-list with Cannes best actress win

CANNES, France — Britain's Emily Beecham has been catapulted into the movie big time by winning best actress at the Cannes film festival for playing an enigmatic scientist in "Little Joe".Beecham, who has spent most of her career in supporting roles, was a surprise choice for the award for her performance as a botanist working on a flower that gives off a scent so ambrosial it makes people euphoric just to sniff it.Indeed she admitted that she was so shocked that "I forgot to pack my toothbrush" when she received a call, after she'd left Cannes, telling her to come back and pick up the prize.But while Beecham's rise has hardly been meteoric, the 35-year-old has been marked out as a talent to watch for a decade, winning best actress awards at both the...

May 26, 2019

Britain's Beecham joins A-list with Cannes best actress win

72nd Cannes Film Festival - Photocall after Closing ceremony - Cannes, France, May 25, 2019. Antonio Banderas, Best Actor award winner for his role in the film

Banderas wins Cannes 'best actor' as Almodovar alter ego

CANNES, France — Hollywood actor Antonio Banderas has portrayed Zorro and Pablo Picasso but he is above all the go-to actor of Oscar-winning director Pedro Almodovar, who launched his hugely successful film career in Spain in the early 1980s.And it was the 58-year-old's nuanced portrayal of Almodovar's alter ego in the director's "Pain & Glory" that won him the best actor award at the Cannes film festival — his first major awardSporting Almodovar's spiky hair and colorful clothes, he plays the movie's central character, an aging Spanish director who is plagued by physical and psychological frailty who revisits childhood memories.Almodovar, 69, has repeatedly said Banderas gives the "best performance of his life" in the film, which ran in...

May 26, 2019

Banderas wins Cannes 'best actor' as Almodovar alter ego

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