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South Korean actress Kim Ji-mee speaks during an interview with AFP as part of the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) in Busan, South Korea, in this Oct. 4, 2019 file photo. — AFP
Film fest highlights tumultuous life of 'South Korea's Liz Taylor'
BUSAN, South Korea — One of the most prolific actresses of all time, Kim Ji-mee has been dubbed South Korea's Elizabeth Taylor for her looks, popularity, and a string of high-profile marriages which challenged social taboos.As an actress and producer she featured in more than 700 films before retiring in the 1990s, but her personal life was equally groundbreaking at a time when divorce in South Korea carried enormous stigma for women.Now 79, her extraordinary life has been highlighted at this year's Busan film festival, Asia's largest, where six of her movies were shown and she gave a series of talks.In a sleek grey suit matching her silver pixie cut, Kim oozed elegance and poise in an interview."I had to be strong... in order not to be suppressed," she said."I...
October 08, 2019

Film fest highlights tumultuous life of 'South Korea's Liz Taylor'

Reality TV personality Kim Kardashian, right, and her sister Kourtney Kardashian, left, with children visit Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan, Armenia, on Tuesday. — Reuters
Kim Kardashian praises climate activist Thunberg and hopes for meeting
YEREVAN, Armenia — US reality TV star Kim Kardashian heaped praise on Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg on Tuesday, calling her a "brave and amazing young woman" and said she shared her concerns about climate change.Kardashian, 38, said she would love to have dinner with Thunberg, who told world leaders at the opening of a United Nations conference last month that they had stolen her childhood with "empty words.""She (Thunberg) is such an amazing young girl, and so brave and courageous to stand up to these grown-ups that can be very scary and for her to be so open and honest is exactly what we need," Kardashian said in an exclusive interview during a visit to Armenia."Climate change is a serious problem," said Kardashian, who was...
October 08, 2019

Kim Kardashian praises climate activist Thunberg and hopes for meeting

An anti-Brexit activist waves a Union and a European Union flag as they demonstrate outside the Houses of Parliament in central London in this Jan. 23, 2019 file photo. — AFP
British MPs seek answers about post-Brexit toilet paper
LONDON — British lawmakers have asked the government to give guarantees that supplies of toilet paper don't dry up in the event of a no-deal Brexit.The country is due to leave the European Union on Oct. 31, and with three weeks to go there is still no deal to smooth over the flow of goods post-Brexit.Fearing supplies of imported loo roll might run out, MP Jonathan Edwards on Tuesday asked ministers how long toilet paper stocks would last if there was no agreement."The government would prefer to leave the EU on Oct. 31 with a deal," Cabinet Office Minister Simon Hart said, in a bog-standard reply."If this is not possible we will have to leave with no-deal."But, lifting the lid on plans for imports at the border, he also insisted the government would...
October 08, 2019

British MPs seek answers about post-Brexit toilet paper

A screen displays the portraits of the laureates of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics, James Peebles, left, Michel Mayor, center, and Didier Queloz, during a news conference at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, on Tuesday. — Reuters
Dark matter and exoplanet discoveries win Nobel Physics Prize
STOCKHOLM — Canadian-American cosmologist James Peebles and Swiss astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz on Tuesday won the Nobel Physics Prize for research that increases the understanding of our place in the Universe.Peebles won one-half of the prize "for theoretical discoveries that have contributed to our understanding of how the Universe evolved after the Big Bang," professor Goran Hansson, secretary general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, told a press conference.Mayor and Queloz shared the other half for the first discovery, in October 1995, of a planet outside our solar system — an exoplanet — orbiting a solar-type star in the Milky Way."Their discoveries have forever changed our conceptions of the world," the jury said.Developed over two...
October 08, 2019

Dark matter and exoplanet discoveries win Nobel Physics Prize

French director Luc Besson poses on the red carpet upon arrival for the premiere of the film
'I've never raped a woman,' says French director Besson
PARIS — French film director Luc Besson on Monday denied raping or drugging a young actress — the first time the maker of "The Fifth Element" has spoken publicity about the sex allegations against him.A judge reopened a rape investigation into the movie mogul on Friday, eight months after Paris prosecutors had dropped a case brought by the Dutch-Belgian actress Sand Van Roy, who claimed that Besson had repeatedly raped her over a two-year period.She is one of nine women who have said they were assaulted or harassed by the powerful director and producer.Van Roy, 28, had minor roles in his "Taxi 5" and "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets".Besson has admitted having a relationship with Van Roy but dismissed her as a "fantasist"."This...
October 07, 2019

'I've never raped a woman,' says French director Besson

Australian actress and UNHCR ambassador Cate Blanchett attends a press conference during an UNHCR executive committee meeting in Geneva on Monday.  — AFP
Cate Blanchett urges world to tackle 'invisible' statelessness
GENEVA — Hollywood star Cate Blanchett pleaded on Monday for an end to the devastating limbo suffered by millions of stateless people worldwide, saying they are left to wallow in "total invisibility"."It is time to act," the Oscar-winning Australian actress, who serves as a Goodwill Ambassador to the UN refugee agency, told reporters in Geneva."The world can end statelessness."Her comments came as UNHCR marked the halfway-point in a 10-year campaign to end the plight of the millions around the globe deprived of a nationality.Statelessness leaves people politically and economically marginalized, and particularly vulnerable to exploitation and abuse.They are often deprived of an education, medical care, the right to marry or even receive a death...
October 07, 2019

Cate Blanchett urges world to tackle 'invisible' statelessness

Reality TV personality Kim Kardashian is seen ahead of the World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT) which is held in Yerevan, Armenia, on Monday. — Reuters
Kim Kardashian christens her children in Armenia
ECHMIADZIN, Armenia — US reality television star Kim Kardashian baptised her children on Monday during a visit to her ancestral homeland Armenia.Kardashian wore a tight-fitting beige dress and stopped to take pouting selfies with local fans as she left Holy Echmiadzin, the Caucasus nation's main cathedral.She was accompanied by her four children -- aged four months to six years -- and sister Kourtney Kardashian, according to an AFP photographer. Her husband, rapper Kanye West, was not present.The visit was the star's first to the nation since a 2015 trip marking the centenary of mass killings of Armenians that saw her husband give a chaotic, impromptu concert in capital Yerevan.Armenia says an estimated 1.5 million ethnic Armenians were killed by Ottoman forces in what it calls a...
October 07, 2019

Kim Kardashian christens her children in Armenia

Group of large Kufic Qur’an leaves.
Islamic art highlights on view in Dubai
DUBAI — After the launch of Only Watch earlier this week, the newly refurbished Christie’s Dubai office will be showcasing from Oct. 7 to 10, 25 highlights from the upcoming Islamic and Indian Worlds auction, which will be taking place in London on Oct. 24.Over the past two years Christie’s London has become the home of the annual autumn sale of Middle Eastern modern and contemporary art taking place on Oct. 23 and combined they will form the well-established Islamic Art Week.The 25 objects showcase artistic developments from the 8th to the 19th century. Manuscripts, dagger, tiles, carpets and bejeweled objects will transform the new gallery space for four days into a treasure box.This substantial group of large Kufic Qur’an leaves comes from the collection of Dr. Mohammed Said...
October 07, 2019

Islamic art highlights on view in Dubai

The winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (L-R) Gregg Semenza of the US, Peter Ratcliffe of Britain and William Kaelin of the US appear on a screen during a press conference at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, on Monday. -AFP
Nobel season opens with Medicine Prize
STOCKHOLM - Scientists William Kaelin, Peter Ratcliffe and Gregg Semenza won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to the availability of oxygen, the award-giving body said on Monday."The seminal discoveries by this year's Nobel laureates revealed the mechanism for one of life's most essential adaptive processes," the Nobel Assembly at Sweden's Karolinska Institute said in a statement on awarding the prize of 9 million Swedish crowns ($913,000).The announcement of the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday opens an unusual 2019 Nobel season in which two literature laureates will be crowned after a scandal postponed last year's award, amid speculation Greta Thunberg could nab the prestigious Peace Prize.The winner of...
October 07, 2019

Nobel season opens with Medicine Prize

This undated handout photo obtained from the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) in Busan on Sunday shows a scene from film
With more women voices, Tannishtha Chatterjee says 'shift' under way in Bollywood
BUSAN, South Korea — Acclaimed actress Tannishtha Chatterjee believes Bollywood is undergoing a subtle shift at Asia's biggest film festival as the work of more Indian women — and more stories about Indian women — are hitting the silver screen."We are being heard more and more," said Chatterjee, who has captured the international spotlight for her roles in the likes of "Brick Lane", "Anna Karenina" and "Lion".Bollywood produces around 2,000 movies per year and Chatterjee said while an overhaul of the male dominance might be some way off, there were positive signs."Definitely there is a shift," she said. "[Women directors] are still seen as being indie so the challenge ahead is to be in the mainstream and to become part of pop...
October 06, 2019

With more women voices, Tannishtha Chatterjee says 'shift' under way in Bollywood

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