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Operatic soprano Montserrat Caballe performs during the first leg of her Russian tour in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk on Sept. 28, 2006. — Reuters file photo
Spanish opera star Montserrat Caballe dies aged 85
Madrid — Spain’s world-famous opera singer Montserrat Caballe, known for her velvet-edged voice and radical rock duet with Queen singer Freddie Mercury, died in Barcelona on Saturday at the age of 85.Hailed as one of the world’s greatest singers for her vocal virtuosity and dramatic powers, Caballe charmed audiences for half a century with a huge repertoire that saw her perform across the globe. The Spanish soprano was already considered an opera great when her duet with Mercury, a boundary-busting combination of opera and rock, became the anthem for the 1992 Olympic Games and propelled her into the mainstream.Retired for several years because of health problems, the soprano was hospitalised in mid-September due to a gall bladder problem, local media reported.“She died overnight at...
October 06, 2018

Spanish opera star Montserrat Caballe dies aged 85




In this file photo a venomous West African Green Mamba snake that will soon be on display in the new Reptile House at the Los Angeles Zoo is seen. — AFP
Green mamba scare in Prague over after venomous snake caught
Prague —A highly venomous green mamba that bit a woman and went into hiding wreaked havoc on a Prague district -- before it was caught on a tree on Friday. The mamba bit its breeder, a 30-year-old woman, on Monday, police and media said.The woman, who had no breeding license, is in an induced coma at a Prague hospital after receiving an antidote. Police evacuated her house in the Hlubocepy district in southern Prague while a nearby kindergarten banned children from leaving the premises. Herpetologists said the snake was unlikely to leave the house given the cold weather outside, but the reptile was found on a tree about 200 metres from its home. “Mamba found! And caught!” tweeted Miroslav Bobek, head of the Prague zoo whose employee caught the mamba. “I would like to know when the...
October 06, 2018

Green mamba scare in Prague over after venomous snake caught

The Soyuz MS-08 capsule carrying the crew of Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold of the US, and Oleg Artemyev of Russia, descends beneath a parachute just before landing in a remote area outside the town of Dzhezkazgan (Zhezkazgan), Kazakhstan, on Thursday. — Reuters
ISS astronauts return to Earth amid US-Russia tensions
ASTANA, Kazakhstan — Two American astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut returned to Earth on Thursday wrapping up a six-month mission at the International Space Station as tensions between Washington and Moscow threaten a rare area of cooperation.NASA astronauts Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold and Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos touched down on steppe land southeast of the Kazakh town of Dzhezkazgan at the expected time of 1145 GMT.The landing came with Russian and US officials investigating the appearance of a mysterious hole in a Russian spacecraft docked at the orbiting station.Detected in August, the hole caused an air leak on the ISS but was quickly sealed up.This week the outspoken chief of the Russian space agency, Dmitry Rogozin, said investigators believed the small hole had been made...
October 04, 2018

ISS astronauts return to Earth amid US-Russia tensions

British actress Judi Dench smiles as she arrives at the 14th Zurich Film Festival in Zurich, Switzerland, on Wednesday. — Reuters
“I was told I would never make it in film,” veteran Judi Dench says
ZURICH — Veteran actress Judi Dench, who has won an Oscar, BAFTAs, Golden Globes and various theater awards during her 60-year career, says her biggest achievement was to star in a movie — because she was once told she had the “wrong” face for films.The 83-year-old, whose big screen roles have included Queen Elizabeth I and James Bond’s mentor M, said on the green carpet at the Zurich Film Festival on Wednesday evening she had been told early on in her career “you’ll never make a film”.Asked what her biggest achievement has been, the British actress said: “I think making a film at all because I was told very, very early on that I would never make any films... They said ‘You have everything wrong with your face’.”“So, I would quite like to say to that person, who...
October 04, 2018

“I was told I would never make it in film,” veteran Judi Dench says

Bollywood actress Tanushree Dutta poses for a picture during a news conference in Mumbai, India, in this Sept. 27, 2018 file photo. — AFP
Indian actress sued after alleging sexual harassment
MUMBAI, India — An Indian actress who alleges she was sexually harassed on two film sets said on Thursday she had received legal notices and threats of violence over her claims.Former Miss Universe contestant Tanushree Dutta said she was sexually harassed by multi-award-winning Bollywood star Nana Patekar during the filming of the romantic comedy “Horn Ok Pleassss” in 2008.Dutta first made the allegations ten years ago after walking off the set.She repeated the claim during a recent interview, also alleging that filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri had behaved inappropriately towards her during the shooting of the 2005 movie “Chocolate: Deep Dark Secrets”.Patekar and Agnihotri both deny the claims.Dutta, 37, said in a statement released on Thursday that said she had received legal notices...
October 04, 2018

Indian actress sued after alleging sexual harassment

Haitian mayor and actress Nice Simon poses in Port-au Prince on Wednesday. — AFP
Haitian mayor and actress speaks out on domestic violence
PORT-AU-PRINCE — With photos of her bruised face and body circulating on social media, a Haitian mayor and prominent actress on Wednesday revealed herself to be a victim of domestic abuse in a bid to start a national conversation about sexual violence.“We women, which such a thing happens, we are the ones who feel ashamed. We don’t speak up because we are embarrassed, we feel shameful,” said Nice Simon, who is the mayor of Tabarre, part of the metropolitan Port-au-Prince area.“But today, the shame is no longer for me — the shame is for the aggressor.”At a news conference on Wednesday, the 40-year-old described in detail an attack she said she suffered two days earlier at the hands of her partner.“He was choking me and slapping me, punching my head. I thought I was going to...
October 04, 2018

Haitian mayor and actress speaks out on domestic violence

Drew Barrymore attends Netflix’s “Santa Clarita Diet” Season 2 Premiere at The Dome at Arclight Hollywood in Hollywood, California, in this March 22, 2018 file photo. — AFP
EgyptAir stands by ‘surreal’ Drew Barrymore interview
CAIRO — EgyptAir stood by its story on Thursday after US actress Drew Barrymore’s spokesperson denied she took part in an interview with the airline’s in-flight magazine that went viral over its bizarre content.“This interview with Drew Barrymore in the Egypt Air in flight magazine is, umm, surreal,” journalist and Yemen expert Adam Baron wrote on Twitter.The post, which included pictures of the three-page interview in the print edition of the magazine, has been liked or shared more than 10,000 times since Baron tweeted it on Tuesday.A spokesperson for Barrymore told the Huffington Post website that the actress “did not participate” in the interview and that her team was “working with the airline PR team”.But EgyptAir insisted the interview was legitimate.“This a...
October 04, 2018

EgyptAir stands by ‘surreal’ Drew Barrymore interview




Katherine, Duchess of Cambridge, arrives at Sayers Croft Forest School in London, Britain, on Tuesday. — Reuters
Britain’s Duchess Kate makes first solo outing after birth of third child
LONDON — Kate Middleton, wife of Britain’s Prince William, visited an inner-city London wildlife garden on Tuesday in her first official solo engagement since giving birth to her third child, Prince Louis, in April.The Duchess of Cambridge, as Kate is formally known, was hugged by excited schoolchildren in the garden, where she joined in activities such as making crowns out of leaves.Kate, aged 36, was dressed casually in jeans, a jumper and knee-high boots for the visit.The Sayers Croft Forest School, which had more than 5,500 visitors last year, gives inner-city school children an opportunity to learn about and engage with the natural world. — Reuters
October 03, 2018

Britain’s Duchess Kate makes first solo outing after birth of third child




Chinese actress Fan Bingbing  seen in this file photo. — AFP
Chinese movie star Fan Bingbing hit with huge tax evasion fines
BEIJING — China has ordered A-list movie star Fan Bingbing to pay about 884 million yuan ($129 million) in overdue taxes and fines, state news agency Xinhua said on Wednesday, as a crackdown on tax evasion in the entertainment industry gathers momentum.The 37-year-old actor, whose June disappearance touched off wild speculation about her whereabouts, has appeared in the “X-Men” and “Iron Man” film franchises, attracting more than 62 million online followers in China.Xinhua said an investigation by Chinese tax authorities found Fan had split her contract to evade taxes of 7.3 million yuan ($1.1 million) over payments for her role in “Air Strike”, a film due to be released this year.Fan and companies she represented also evaded 248 million yuan ($36 million) in additional...
October 03, 2018

Chinese movie star Fan Bingbing hit with huge tax evasion fines




A cast member of the popular children’s show Tinga Tinga Tales performs at Kenya’s National Theatre in Nairobi, Kenya. — Reuters
Kenyan children’s musical roars in to US for off-Broadway premiere
NAIROBI — Feathery costumes, multi-colored makeup and East African instruments are packed into boxes, ready for shipping as Kenya’s National Theatre prepares to take its popular children’s show “Tinga Tinga Tales” to New York.The cartoon by multiple BAFTA award-winner Claudia Lloyd and Kenyan singer-songwriter Eric Wainaina features Kenyan children’s fables to explain questions from the animal kingdom, such as why the giraffe’s neck is long and how the chameleon got its colors. The 2016 musical adaption, brought to life by a breakdancing Rastafari tortoise, a soul singing hippopotamus and a jazz savvy elephant, takes musical inspiration from gospel, funk and hiphop — genres rooted in the United States.“I’m thrilled to be able to give back to an audience that I’ve...
October 03, 2018

Kenyan children’s musical roars in to US for off-Broadway premiere

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