Harry Styles stadium show falls foul of football fans in Bogotá
Bid to move pop star’s Colombian tour date to capital’s biggest venue has united supporters of clubs who play there Rival Colombian football fans, more...
Category : Culture
Spielberg’s The Fabelmans wins Toronto film festival People’s Choice award
Director’s most autobiographical film to date picks up audience prize generally seen as indicator of awards success to come Steven Spielberg’s new film The Fabelmans...
Mexican rebels donate museum money for canoes to refugee rescues
Madrid museum buys three hand-carved canoes from Zapatistas, with proceeds going to Open Arms NGO Three exquisitely decorated canoes hand-carved in the jungles of southern...
Chinese censors alter ending of Minions: The Rise of Gru film
Viewers mock addendum explaining Gru’s family values and arrest of thief Wild Knuckles Censors in China have changed the ending of the animated film Minions:...
Mohamed Ibrahim Warsame, one of Somalia’s greatest poets, dies aged 79
Somali social media has been flooded with tributes to the man better known as ‘Hadraawi’ Messages of condolences continue to pour in from around the...
London museum returns 72 Benin treasures to Nigeria
Horniman museum is first government-funded institution to hand back artefacts looted by British forces in 1897 A London museum is to return 72 treasured artefacts,...
Portrait of tyrant Thomas Picton moved to side room in Welsh museum
Exhibition includes two specially commissioned works reframing story of former Trinidad governor For more than a century, the portrait of Thomas Picton hung in a...
US airman who rescued film of A-bomb horrors is honoured at last
Cameraman Daniel McGovern copied footage of Hiroshima and Nagasaki devastation to ensure lessons were learned The photograph shows devastation in Nagasaki after the atomic bomb:...
Thailand’s gay-romance TV dramas help revive flagging tourism industry
The popularity of ‘boy-love’ series sends fans from home and abroad flocking to filming locations across the country There is a table in Soontaree Thiprat’s...
Oxford University may return items looted from Nigeria by Britain in 1897
University council supports claim for 97 artefacts, including bronzes, currently held in city’s museums Oxford University could return almost 100 artefacts that were looted by...
