Random House Worlds is gearing up to release its latest Star Wars novel, author Mike Chen's Star Wars Outlaws: Low Red Moon. You might assume the book showcases an earlier adventure in the life of gol...
The Bic Lamp can be hung, mounted, or used as a vertical standing lamp. | Image: Seletti Seletti, an Italian design brand known for everything from furniture to tableware, has debuted an unusual tribu...
Jack O'Connell in "28 Years Later: The Bone Temple." Sony In "28 Years Later: The Bone Temple," Jack O'Connell plays Sir Jimmy Crystal, a strange cult leader. The character and his fol...
The author's grandmother lived to 99. Courtesy of Tracy Granzyk My grandmother lived to 99, and I got to know her better as an adult than I did as a child. I'm glad we spent that time together and tha...
People are taking to Instagram to reminisce 2016 in all its fishnet-stocking glory. Melodie Jeng/Getty Images 2016 is so back — at least on Instagram. Millennials are putting up pictures of them...
Dolly Parton is one of the world's most successful artists. Now 80, she has an eventful life to look back over. Here are some important and extraordinary facts about the country icon....
A jungle temple in Thailand hailed as a âhidden gemâ has urged tourists to stop âinappropriate behaviourâ after they were spotted doing gymnastics and wearing revealing clothing at the site. The Wat P...
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The Adelaide Writers' Week retracted an invitation to an Australian-Palestinian author, citing the the Bondi Beach attack. Dozens, including the event's director and the former PM of New Zealand, with...
The Netherlands celebrated National Tulip Day on Saturday, marking the upcoming arrival of spring and the start of the tulip season. Dutch tulip growers arranged around 200,000 tulips in a vibrant dis...
A cartoon by the French satirical weekly portraying the deadly fire in Crans-Montana as the "comedy of the year" provokes disgust....
A new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, âIdeas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imaginationâ, features photographic portraits by African artists and captures the spirit of...
As Hollywood doubles down on sequels, the contenders for the European Film Awards feature bold, political works that are challenging audiences and creating buzz far beyond the continent....
As AFCON 2025 heads towards a thrilling finale in Morocco, the host cities are buzzing with far more than football. In Casablanca and Rabat, art, culture and the passion of fans are turning the tourna...
ABC News' Danny New looks back at the U.S. presidents who've taken to the canvas as painters....
The newly excavated basilica is the only building definitively attributed to Marcus Vitruvius Pollonius, a founding figure of western architecture....
From utopian origins to AI-driven rivals, the "people's encyclopedia" has been shaped by debates over neutrality, expertise and the future of shared knowledge....
On 20 January every year Azerbaijanis pay tribute to those who died in a bloody massacre committed by the former USSR against civilians to suppress the national liberation movement....
The Louvre museum and several other French cultural sites are increasing the price of entry for visitors from outside Europe. So-called "dual pricing" is quite common in less wealthy countries but rar...
Conceptual designer and comic book creator Ricardo Delgado made his mark on Dracula with 2021's Dracula of Transylvania , a book that re-imagined Bram Stoker's iconic villain as "a complete horror." N...