North Korea detonated a hydrogen bomb with “perfect success”, its state media said Sunday, adding that the device was capable of being loaded onto its long-range missiles. Hours after the North’s sixth nuclear detonation, an announcer on its official Korean Central Television declared, “The hydrogen bomb test was a perfect success.” Earlier today, a 6.3-magnitude tremor struck its main testing site, which South Korean experts reportedly said was nearly 10 […]

Actor-director George Clooney recently talked about his latest directorial Suburbicon and said his latest directorial is an angry movie for an angry country — his own and is inspired by Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. “A lot of us are angry — angry at ourselves, angry at the way that the country is going, angry at the way the world is going,” he told reporters Saturday in Venice, where Suburbicon is […]

A Pakistani anti-terrorism court declared former military ruler Pervez Musharraf a fugitive in ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto’s murder trial Thursday, nearly 10 years after the iconic political figure was gunned down in the streets of Rawalpindi. The court dismissed charges against five alleged Taliban militants accused of being involved in the killing, while two police officers were found guilty of “mishandling the crime scene”, becoming the only people to be […]

After pouring record rains on Texas, Tropical Storm Harvey made a second landfall on Wednesday to strike Louisiana, a state that still bears deep scars from 2005’s Hurricane Katrina. The second hit comes five days after the monster storm slammed onshore as a Category Four hurricane, pummelling the US Gulf coast with torrential rains that turned neighbourhoods into lakes in America’s fourth largest city, Houston. Harvey made its second landfall […]

Legendary painter Vincent van Gogh had once said: “I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.” Today, after 127 years of his untimely demise, his life, his work, and his legacy are no less than a dream to art connoisseurs across the globe. Van Gogh died at an early age of 37 when he committed suicide after suffering from depression for a long time. Over the years, the […]

The trailer of Richard Linklater’s upcoming film Last Flag Flying starring Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston and Laurence Fishburne has released. It looks like the film is going to leave you in two situations — you’ll either find yourself laughing sheepishly or reaching out for that box of tissues. The story of this comedy drama revolves around Richard “Doc” Shepherd (played by Carell), whose son gets killed in combat. Doc does […]

In many states, lottery winners must do a bit of publicity work before they can plop down some cash for their own water park or go on a decades-long shopping spree so epic that the public nicknames them “Spend, Spend, Spend.” By law, many must have their names publicized or do mandatory news conferences – a convention that serves to both silence whispers that the lottery system is fixed and […]

Indians are obtaining Canadian work visas like never before and are beating Chinese nationals in the race. As per the latest statistics, Indians are ahead of China in getting Canadian work visas under Canada’s international mobility programme. From January-June this year, 13,670 Indians obtained work visas and the number was at 8,680 for Chinese. Under the temporary foreign worker programme too, Indians were ahead as under this programme, 2,190 Indians […]

Ousted White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon on Saturday said the Trump presidency that the right-wing conservatives helped make a reality is “over” and the president would now be “moderated” by the Republicans. Bannon, who headed the controversial right-wing website ‘Breitbart News’ before joining the Trump administration, also denied that he was fired from the key position. Hours after he left the White House, 63-year-old Bannon returned to Breitbart News […]

Jessica Chastain’s performance in 2013’s Zero Dark Thirty earned her a very well-deserved Golden Globe award. Over the past few years, Chastain had earned the reputation of being a method actor who extensively prepares for each of her performances, leading to some pretty scintillating screen appearances in The Help (2012), Interstellar (2014) or the more recent The Martian (2015)? The trailer for Chastain’s latest film, Molly’s Game, is out and […]