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NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — President-elect Donald Trump and China’s billionaire founder of e-commerce giant Alibaba held “great” talks in New York on Monday focused on creating US jobs and enabling trade with Asia. The incoming Republican president, who will be sworn in as commander-in-chief in less than two weeks’ time having never previously held elected office, has made job creation a key promise of his incoming administration. His team said the meeting between […]
by Katell PRIGENT Guy JACKSON Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — French police on Monday arrested 17 people, most of them with records for organised crime, over the robbery of US reality TV star Kim Kardashian in Paris last October, police sources said. Police swooped in the Paris region and the south of France after DNA was found at the luxury residence where Kardashian was tied up and robbed of her jewels at gunpoint, […]
by Jennie Matthew with Frankie Taggart in Los Angeles Agence France Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump took on one of the Hollywood greats Monday, accusing Meryl Streep of being an overrated actress and a Hillary Clinton “flunky” after the multiple Oscar winner tore into him at an awards ceremony. In what has become an early morning custom for the notoriously thin-skinned Republican president-elect, Trump took to Twitter to settle scores with […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Buddy cop comedy “Zootopia” on Sunday nabbed the Golden Globe for best animated feature film, crowning a record year for Disney. The film centers on the intrepid rabbit police officer Judy Hopps, who along with a fox solves a crime in a metropolis inhabited by a diverse population of anthropomorphized animals. The critically acclaimed flick was helped along by a massive promotional campaign, raking in more than one billion dollars […]
by Frankie TAGGART Agence France Presse LOS ANGELES , United States (AFP) — Three-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep berated President-elect Donald Trump for his divisive rhetoric as she received a lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globes on Sunday. The 67-year-old fought to control her emotions as she received a standing ovation during her acceptance speech for the Cecil B DeMille Award, handed out by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. “You and all of us in […]
by Frankie TAGGART Agence France Presse LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Whimsical modern-day musical “La La Land” pirouetted its way into major Oscars contention Sunday as it swept the board at the Golden Globes, the glitziest party of the showbiz year. Damien Chazelle’s nostalgic tribute to the Golden Age of Hollywood musicals picked up all seven of the statuettes for which it was nominated — giving the film momentum as it launches its campaign […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (January 9) – Anyone with a basic grounding on astronomy and – I don’t know – physics knows that space travel takes a very long time. The distance between stars is measured by light-years – that is how many years light will take to reach that particular stellar object. And as we wannabe physics buff know – light is the fastest object in the universe. That is why sci-fi films usually invoke […]
BEVERLY HILLS, California (Reuters) — Actor Casey Affleck stole the spotlight early at the Golden Globes on Sunday (January 8) night when he donned a long beard and a man bun on the red carpet – and admitted that even he was embarrassed by his new hairstyle. “I feel like I’ve got chicken pox on the day of my wedding,” Affleck, who was nominated for best actor for “Manchester By the Sea”, told NBC. “It’s […]
(REUTERS) — “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” won another weekend at the North American box office from Friday (January 6) through Sunday (January 8) bringing in $22 million at 4,175 locations, adding to its global haul of 807 million dollars. The debut of “Hidden Figures,” almost took the top spot with $21.8 million at 2,471 sites. The story of three African-American women working on the NASA mission to send John Glenn into space has […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Aaron Taylor-Johnson on Sunday won the best supporting actor Golden Globe for his work in psychological thriller “Nocturnal Animals” — the first major award of the night. Taylor-Johnson bested Mahershala Ali (“Moonlight”), Jeff Bridges (“Hell Or High Water”), Simon Helberg (“Florence Foster Jenkins”) and Dev Patel (“Lion”). © 1994-2017 Agence France-Presse
(REUTERS) — Thousands of people brushed up their calligraphy as they gathered and competed in the traditional Kaikizome (literally ‘first writings’) of the New Year on Thursday (January 5). Similar events are also held in homes and other venues across Japan at this time of the year and are meant to help strengthen one’s resolve and resolutions for the new year – regardless of the characters used. At the Nippon Budokan, originally the judo stadium […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Pop queen Beyonce, rapper Kendrick Lamar and British rock group Radiohead will headline this year’s edition of the Coachella music festival in April, organizers said Tuesday. The indie camp-out, which has been getting an increasingly eclectic line-up, will also feature performances from British indie pop band the xx, US folktronica outfit Bon Iver and French house music duo Justice. Other notables include US folk rock guitarist-vocalist Father John Misty […]
