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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Disney announces its first theme park in the UAE
BURBANK, California — Disney will build its seventh theme park, this one in the United Arab Emirates, the entertainment company announced on Wednesday.The waterfront resort will be built on Yas Island on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi, already home to Formula One’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, the Ferrari and Warner Bros. amusement parks, SeaWorld and a waterpark.Abu Dhabi is the capital of the United Arab Emirates, a federation of seven sheikhdoms on the Arabian Peninsula. Home to 9 million people, it has leveraged its long-haul carriers Emirates and Etihad Airways to bring in more tourists over the years. A real-estate boom and the city’s highest-ever tourism numbers have made Dubai a destination as well as a layover.Disney and Miral, the Abu Dhabi developer overseeing the project, hope to...
May 08, 2025

Disney announces its first theme park in the UAE

Singer Rihanna is expecting her third baby
Rihanna reveals third pregnancy at the Met Gala
NEW YORK — After revealing her second pregnancy in dramatic fashion during her 2023 halftime Super Bowl performance, Rihanna has followed up by debuting her third on the Met Gala red carpet.The last attendee to arrive at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art on Sunday evening, the star wore a pinstripe Marc Jacobs ensemble, accentuating her baby bump, with a polkadot cravat and oversized hat.Rihanna’s pregnancy announcement came on a historic evening, co-chaired by her partner A$AP Rocky, that celebrated exuberant Black style and dandyism. The evening’s theme was inspired by the Met’s accompanying Costume Institute exhibition, “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.”A$AP Rocky arrived hours earlier wearing a self-designed outfit that he told Vogue was “a bit of Harlem Nights,”...
May 06, 2025

Rihanna reveals third pregnancy at the Met Gala

Sobule's satirical anthem Supermodel featured in the 1995 comedy Clueless
US songwriter Jill Sobule dies in house fire
MINNEAPOLIS — Jill Sobule, a US songwriter, has died in a house fire in Minneapolis, Minnesota, her publicist has said.Sobule, whose satirical anthem Supermodel featured in the 1995 coming-of-age film Clueless, was 66.She had been due to perform on Friday in her home city of Denver, Colorado to showcase songs from her autobiographical stage musical. A free gathering will now take place in her honor.Tributes have been pouring in on social media, including from English musician Lloyd Cole, who said: "I'm really too numb to post much of anything. We loved her. She loved us."Born in 1959, Sobule's career spanned three decades, her music dealing with topics including the death penalty, anorexia and LGBTQ+ rights.Her most famous work came on her eponymous 1995 album, which...
May 02, 2025

US songwriter Jill Sobule dies in house fire

Outkast's hits include Hey Ya, B.O.B., So Fresh So Clean and SpottieOttieDopaliscious
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame picks Outkast but not Oasis
LOS ANGELES — Innovative rap group Outkast, pop star Cyndi Lauper and 1960s pioneer Chubby Checker have all won places in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.This year's inductees were revealed live on American Idol, with the UK represented by hard rock band Bad Company and gravel-voiced eccentric Joe Cocker, 11 years after his death from lung cancer.However, Manchester bands Oasis and Joy Division/New Order failed to qualify from the shortlist.Performers become eligible for inclusion 25 years after the release of their first commercial recording. The nominations are voted on by more than 1,200 music historians, industry professionals and previously inducted artists.The full list of performers to be inducted this year is:Bad CompanyChubby CheckerJoe CockerCyndi LauperOutkastSoundgardenThe...
April 28, 2025

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame picks Outkast but not Oasis

Police outside the luxury apartment where Kim Kardashian was robbed at gun point
'Grandpa robbers' held Kim Kardashian at gunpoint — but didn't know who she was
PARIS — The morning after the heist, burglar Yunice Abbas went home to catch up on some sleep.When he woke up, his wife was glued to the TV. The headline news of the day was that American reality TV star Kim Kardashian, 35, had been tied up and robbed at gunpoint in a luxury Paris apartment.All her jewelry had been taken for a sum of about $10m (£7.5m) – including the engagement ring her then-husband and rapper Kanye West gifted her, which alone was worth $4m (£3m).Yunice Abbas' wife glared at him. "This has you written all over it," she grumbled.She was right. The 62-year-old had dabbled in crime his whole life, from petty offenses to bank heists.The Kardashian robbery, he later wrote in a memoir, was going to be his last job before retirement.But a series of blunders...
April 28, 2025

'Grandpa robbers' held Kim Kardashian at gunpoint — but didn't know who she was

Nora Aunor was awarded the Philippines' highest honour for the arts in 2022
Famed Philippine film star Nora Aunor dies at 71
SYDNEY — Nora Aunor, one of the Philippines' most celebrated film stars, has died at the age of 71.Aunor's death on Wednesday was announced by her children on social media, but no further details were provided about her cause of death."She touched generations with her unmatched talent, grace, and passion for the craft. Her voice, presence, and artistry shaped a legacy that will never fade," her daughter and actor Lotlot de Leon said on Instagram.Born into a poor family in the city of Iriga, Aunor established a career in television, music and film over seven decades. She was named National Artist for Film and Broadcast Arts in 2022 - the Philippines' highest honor for the arts.She rose to stardom as a singer in the 1960s before moving to the screen, where she amassed...
April 17, 2025

Famed Philippine film star Nora Aunor dies at 71

Mario Vargas Llosa in 1990
Mario Vargas Llosa: Giant of Latin American literature, with a punch to match
LIMA — Mario Vargas Llosa, who has died at the age of 89 in his native Peru, was a towering figure in Latin American literature and culture who rarely shied away from controversy.With more than 50 works to his name, many of which have been widely translated, Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010 when judges dubbed him a "divinely gifted story-teller". His depictions of authoritarianism, violence and machismo, using rich language and imagery, made him a star of the Latin American Boom literary movement that shone a global spotlight on the continent.At first sympathetic to left-wing ideas, he grew disillusioned with Latin America's revolutionary causes, eventually running unsuccessfully for the Peruvian presidency with a centre-right party in 1990.Vargas...
April 14, 2025

Mario Vargas Llosa: Giant of Latin American literature, with a punch to match

Gatwa has appeared in Barbie and Sex Education, and is about to star in his second season of Doctor Who
Ncuti Gatwa cast as Elizabethan playwright Marlowe
LONDON — Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa has been cast in a new play as Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe, the Royal Shakespeare Company has announced.Born With Teeth will explore the relationship between a 27-year-old Marlowe and rising star William Shakespeare, as they are forced to work together on a new piece of work.Gatwa said he was "so excited" to be appearing in the play, which he said was "like no version of Shakespeare and Marlowe that I've ever seen before".Shakespeare will be portrayed by Edward Bluemel, who has starred in Killing Eve, A Discovery of Witches, and alongside Gatwa in Sex Education.The show will play for 11 weeks at the Wyndham's Theatre from 13 August.Born With Teeth, written Liz Duffy Adams, will take an "irreverent"...
April 11, 2025

Ncuti Gatwa cast as Elizabethan playwright Marlowe

Scarlett Johansson is making her directorial debut at the Cannes Film Festival
Scarlett Johansson hitting Cannes both on-screen and behind the camera
CANNES — Oscar-winning actress and Avengers star Scarlett Johansson is featuring twice at this year's Cannes Film Festival, both in front of and behind the camera.She will appear in Wes Anderson's new project, The Phoenician Scheme, alongside Benicio Del Toro and Tom Hanks and off-screen in her first directorial project.Her new film, Eleanor the Great, has also been revealed as part of the line-up and follows an elderly woman as she copes with the death of her best friend.Johansson's starring role comes as organisers of the film festival have said that they are committed to showcasing more work from female filmmakers.Speaking at a press conference, Cannes president Iris Knobloch said she was "honored to amplify" the voices of women.Johansson, 40, who is best known...
April 11, 2025

Scarlett Johansson hitting Cannes both on-screen and behind the camera

Fawad Khan, an actor, singer and producer with a huge following in India, announced his Bollywood comeback last week, sending fans into a frenzy
Pakistani star’s Bollywood return excites fans and riles far right
MUMBAI — Excitement is growing in cinema-mad India for the return of a movie star from Pakistan to its big screens after his long absence due to an industry ban on artists from the neighboring country.Fawad Khan, an actor, singer and producer with a huge following in India, announced his Bollywood comeback last week, sending fans into a frenzy, 18 months after an Indian court effectively ruled that a de facto industry ban on Pakistani talent imposed in 2016 was illegal.“The wait is over! Bringing love back to the big screen,” Khan posted to Instagram last week, alongside a short teaser for the May 9 release of rom-com “Abir Gulaal.”The post set off a wave of excitement among fans on social media and on the streets of Mumbai, the home of Bollywood.“Super stoked to have an artist...
April 08, 2025

Pakistani star’s Bollywood return excites fans and riles far right

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