There will be a screening of an Academy Award nominated film, panel discussions as well as Q&A The Foreign Language Oscars Committee – Ghana presents a one-day submission workshop in Accra. he...
Ivory Coast international Cheick Tiote "suddenly fainted" at training and died later in hospital, his Chinese club said on Tuesday, as tributes flooded in for the player. Tiote, 30, who had only...
In US director Oliver Stone's edgy new interview series, Russian leader Vladimir Putin says he believes intelligence leaker Edward Snowden is no traitor and appears to confirm multiple assassination...
Japan's answer to Walt Disney has confirmed the launch of a giant new theme park based on one of its most popular films. Studio Ghibli, the animation giant behind the 1988 hit animated fantasy movie...
Megastar turned pariah Bill Cosby, who goes on trial Monday for allegedly drugging and assaulting a woman in 2004, joins a growing list of famous men charged with a sex crime. Here are five other...
Chinese big-spenders Jiangsu Suning have parted ways with their coach Choi Yong-Soo after a disappointing season was compounded by elimination from the AFC Champions League. Jiangsu -- who share...
An Iranian film-maker who was jailed for "anti-regime propaganda" won the top prize at the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes film festival Saturday. Mohammad Rasoulof won for "Lerd" about a man...
The Chinese Football Association has stepped up its fight against spiralling big-money deals for foreign players by announcing prohibitive new curbs, less than a month before the next transfer window...
Brazilian forward Hulk scored one goal and set up another as Shanghai SIPG won a megabucks all-Chinese clash 2-1 against Jiangsu Suning in the AFC Champions League's last 16 on Wednesday. Hulk made...
Hollywood stars Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell said Wednesday they wanted to throw their star power behind more movies made by women, after the Cannes premiere of their battle-of-the-sexes thriller....
China's Tianjin Quanjin appear to have shut the door on a rumoured megamoney swoop for Chelsea's Diego Costa or any other "excessive" spending, amid a government crackdown on high-priced foreign...
New York's famed Broadway grossed its highest seasonal earnings on record, yielding $1.45 billion for the 2016-17 season with its second-best attendance on record, a trade association announced...
A Harvard student has become the first in the university's history to submit a rap album for his senior thesis. Student Obasi Shaw, who will graduate from the prestigious university next week,...
Grime star Stomzy hit headlines earlier this week after an unexpected act of generosity. When Oxford University student Fiona Asiedu set up a crowdfunding campaign to raise £12,000 to go to Harvard,...
Oscar-winning Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki, who announced in 2013 that he would stop making films, is coming out of retirement to do a new movie, his studio announced Friday. "Miyazaki decided to...
Iran's presidential election Friday is effectively a choice between moderate incumbent Hassan Rouhani and hardline jurist Ebrahim Raisi, with major implications for everything from civil rights to...
A senior official called for "good order" between the Chinese Super League's foreign and domestic players after allegations of racism and violence among a number of flare-ups involving top stars....
Oscar-winning director Asif Kapadia is to make a film about a disastrous adulterous affair among the Pakistani elite with Indian star Irrfan Khan, according to reports Thursday. "Moth Smoke" is being...
Fight promoter Dana White says he has an agreement with mixed martial arts champion Conor McGregor for a proposed megafight, but boxing superstar Floyd Mayweather remains unsigned. White told...
The enigmatic champion of a global movement for transparency and democracy. A Russian stooge. A West-hating attention-seeker. A cold fish with questionable attitudes and alleged diabolical sexual...
