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Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson does not take anything for granted, often taking to social media to express the gratitude he feels for the career opportunities he had. View this post on Instagram #HobbsAndShaw #FastAndFurious #UniverseExpansion @sevenbucksprod A post shared by therock (@therock) on Sep 27, 2019 at 10:40am PDT Recently in a new IGTV post, […]

Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, the world’s biggest thanks to petrodollars, is scaling back plans to dump stakes in oil and gas companies, the government has revealed. Originally, the fund — which manages more than $1 trillion in assets — had envisaged pulling out of 134 companies involved in oil and gas exploration and production. Norway […]

Pictures by Yury Kadobnov. Video by Ivana Jurisa by Anna MALPAS In cropped jeans and a cream sweatshirt, Alina Muzychenko would easily blend into a central Moscow crowd. But her bright pink socks are quietly subversive — patterned with a drawing of riot police holding hands. The 34-year-old runs a design label with her husband […]

MBLAQ’s G.O and Choi Ye Seul officially got married on 28 Sept. The wedding was a private, small-scale ceremony with about 70 guests according to the couple’s wishes. Mir, a fellow MBLAQ member officiated the ceremony with G.O. G.O shared a photo of the couple in their wedding attire around noon that day with the […]

Recently Hong Kong actor Kenneth Ma has been in the news but attention on his love life is not what the TVB actor wants. The 45-year-old shared with The Straits Times in Mandarin,”I will leave relationship matters to fate, I won’t force it. Now, I’m just hard at work filming and making money.” “Housing in […]

SINGAPORE—Yesterday (Sept. 30), Swedish furniture company Ikea put out a press release recalling its MATVRÅ children’s bib packs because of a possible choking hazard. In its official press release, entitled “IKEA recalls the children’s bib MATVRÅ, Blue/Red 2-pack, due to a choking hazard”, Ikea noted that it had received two separate reports of the buttons […]

South Korean boy bands Super Junior and TVXQ will be reminiscing about their friendship in the upcoming travel documentary Analog Trip. It will feature TVXQ’s Yunho and Changmin as well as Super Junior’s Leeteuk, Shindong, Eunhyuk and Donghae as they travel through Indonesia with just their backpacks. The show offers an intimate look into the […]

Shopping, shopping, shopping! It’s one of the world’s favourite pastimes, and you can’t deny that walking out of a shop with something you like does have the uncanny ability of cheering you up when you’re in a funk. Some even call it therapy! If you love to travel and you take your shopping seriously, you […]

by Andrea PALASCIANO Dozens of cadets and youngsters from Russia’s Youth Army have been getting up close and personal with perhaps the world’s most iconic firearm as their country prepares to mark the centenary of the birth of Mikhail Kalashnikov, maker of the legendary rifle. At Victory Museum in western Moscow, visitors including the young […]

It’s a skill you never forget once learnt, as the saying goes: Now immigrants to Finland can receive free cycling lessons to help them better integrate into life in the bike-loving nation. On a sunny September morning a group of around eight students have taken time out from their Finnish lessons to come to an […]

Former First Lady Michelle Obama has paid a touching tribute to Duchess Meghan Markle for “breaking the mould” during her royal tour of South Africa. The Duchess has been praised as an “inspiration” by Michelle Obama for her charity work. She is currently on tour in South Africa with husband Prince Harry and their four-month-old […]

by Nina LARSON More than half of Europe’s endemic tree species, including the horse-chestnut, risk extinction, conservationists warned Friday, blaming invasive species, unsustainable logging and urban development for their decline. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said out of the 454 tree species native to Europe, 42 percent could disappear from the continent. […]

by Fiachra GIBBONS Vivienne Westwood designer Andreas Kronthaler hit out Saturday at fashion’s most powerful man Bernard Arnault for attacking Greta Thunberg. The French billionaire and head of the LVMH conglomerate that owns labels like Louis Vuitton, Dior, Givenchy, and pop idol Rihanna’s new brand Fenty, said the teenage climate activist was “surrendering to total […]

The world is full of books, and yet even if we read every single day of our lives, we would never be able to read them all. So we have to choose which books deserve to take up space in our minds, and everyone knows that the more choices one is presented with, the harder […]

With all the amazing technology in photography available to us today, the incredible sharpness of smartphone cameras plus the dazzling array of photography filters and apps, it is nearly impossible to take a bad photograph. And these days, travelling without a camera just doesn’t make sense. Besides immortalising memories of your adventures in photographs, you’ve […]