After playing a young Willy Wonka, Timothée Chalamet is once again portraying the youthful, pre-fame iteration of a world famous pop culture icon: Bob Dylan. The actor has been tasked with bringing the music legend’s life story to the screen in the new biopic A Complete Unknown, and the first photos from set have surfaced, giving … Read more
The Real Housewives of Atlanta is coming back for a 16th season on Bravo! The reality series is the third city to get a Real Housewives show, following Orange County and New York City, and follows a group of women living in and around Atlanta, Ga. Over the years, the series has seen some different … Read more
India’s smartwatch market has transformed, seemingly overnight. For years, it has been dominated by its homegrown players, while global giants like Apple and Samsung have struggled for presence, amid the hundreds of millions of annual shipments. Suddenly, however, the category has been flooded with unknown brands, which have no prior and significant existence. These have … Read more
In remarks Tuesday night, former President Donald Trump said, “It was announced that 325,000 people were flown in from parts unknown. Migrants were flown in — airplane — not going through borders, not going through that great Texas barrier.” Facts First: This is misleading. Trump appeared to be citing a new report released by the … Read more
This week, the world had a collective freakout over “Willy’s Chocolate Experience,” an event in Glasgow, Scotland that ended in tears. Organizers used AI-generated ads that promised $45 Wonka wonderland, but when parents and children arrived, they found a barren, filthy warehouse. Several actors involved with the production came forward to share horror stories, including … Read more
QUETTA, Pakistan — The bodies of nine Pakistani laborers killed by gunmen in Iran last week were repatriated to their home country Thursday. It was still unclear who was behind the attack Saturday in a home in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan province. Three Pakistanis wounded in the attack were still being treated at an Iranian … Read more
SLOVIANSK, Ukraine — Mykola Soloviov, 88, is a painter the world does not know. His landscapes of eastern Ukraine, records of a lost time, lie tucked away in a modest home under threat of Russian attack. Soloviov can’t hear or walk and barely speaks. Disabled since a 2017 stroke, he spends his days bedridden in … Read more
A hospital in Los Angeles County is asking for the public’s help to identify a patient who has been hospitalized for more than 10 days and speaks an unknown language. The patient has been at St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood after he was found Dec. 17 on the 7600 block of Otis Avenue in … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave RIGA, Latvia — Jailed Russian opposition figures are incommunicado, missing in the country’s opaque and secretive prison system and unreachable by their lawyers or even the court system. A popular, exiled detective novelist has been branded as a terrorist and charged by Russian authorities. Monuments to Soviet … Read more
In the profoundly remote Argentina desert, at over 12,000 feet high, and in a place where no roads go, scientists found an exotic world new to science. Among white salt plains atop the Puna de Atacama plateau, there’s a system of greenish lagoons harboring vast bacterial communities, called stromatolites, that create layered mounds as they … Read more