Christian Grey is back. The trailer for Fifty Shades Darker dropped on Tuesday 12 September 2016 and it features lots of fireworks, masks and six inch heels. Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson reprise their roles as Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele in the sequel to the 2015 film Fifty Shades of Grey. This is the adaptation of the second book in EL James’ Shades trilogy, and the film (or the […]
United Arab Emirates — Around 2 million Muslims from around the world are beginning the five-day hajj pilgrimage on Saturday. They will circle Islam’s most sacred site, the cube-shaped Kaaba in the Saudi Arabian city of Mecca, and take part in a series of rituals intended to bring about greater humility and unity among Muslims. Here’s a look at the pilgrimage and what it means for Muslims: The hajj is […]
Jessi Hempel’s brother Evan was born a woman. He came out as transgender 16 years ago but never stopped wanting to have a baby. This spring he gave birth to his first child. Evan’s pregnancy is proof that we live in amazing times. When Evan first visited an LGBT health centre in Boston, US, Jessi wrote for TIME, it was the first time his doctor had seen a prospective birth […]
The first trailer for Naomi Watts-starrer Shut In has been released online and features the actress as child psychiatrist Mary. Mary’s life is turned into nightmare when she takes a boy named Tom, played by Jacob Tremblay, as her foster child. She decides to take Tom in while her own son, played by Charlie Heaton of Stranger Things, is in vegetative state. “It’s like I have my little boy back,” […]
The canonisation of the “Saint of the Gutters”, which will take place tomorrow, is a unique moment of pride for our ancient land, the cradle of so many great religions. Mother Teresa’s life and work reaffirms our faith in humanity that the streams of mercy have not dried up. She becomes tomorrow the ultimate symbol of asceticism in the Catholic Church. I am blessed that I will be able to […]
Using genetic and fossil data, we have reconstructed the evolutionary “family tree” for songbirds. The songbirds that are common in gardens all across the world have a surprisingly distant origin. They all evolved from a common ancestor that emerged from what is now Australia around 24m years ago. How they managed to leave this isolated part of the world and spread all over the planet has long been a mystery […]
VANCOUVER: Man Kaur from India needed almost a minute-and-a-half to cross the finish line in the 100-meter dash, but she still picked up a gold medal on Monday at the American Masters Games. That’s because the 100-year-old Ms Kaur was the only female competitor in her age category at the competition for older athletes. When she crossed the finish line in Vancouver, her competitors – many of them in their […]
Williams will be No. 14 on the world’s most-time-in-space list, behind 13 Russians, by the time he lands Astronaut Jeffrey Williams has a new record for NASA under his space belt. The commander of the International Space Station marked a U.S. recording-breaking 521st day in orbit Wednesday, a number accumulated over four flights. That surpasses the 520-day record set by Scott Kelly, whose one-year space station mission ended in March. […]
The teaser for La La Land — starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling — has been released, featuring a dreamy solo by Emma and all the glitter from Hollywood’s Golden Age. The film, set to premiere at the Venice Film Festival before hitting US cinemas in December 2016, features Stone and Gosling as a pair of dreamers trying to make it in Hollywood. Stone plays an aspiring actress with Gosling […]
For the once-in-4-years Olympic follower, there are no positives for India in Rio. But if you dig deeper, we have unearthed a gem in Rawat. The alarm rings, it’s 4 am, a 25-year-old Manish Singh Rawat wakes up to get ready for his shift as a waiter in a small hotel in Badrinath named ‘Krishna’. However, he is up two hours before all his co-workers. And no, he is not […]
