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Mario Vargas Llosa in 1990

Mario Vargas Llosa: Giant of Latin American literature, with a punch to match

LIMA — Mario Vargas Llosa, who has died at the age of 89 in his native Peru, was a towering figure in Latin American literature and culture who rarely shied away from controversy.With more than 50 works to his name, many of which have been widely translated, Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010 when judges dubbed him a "divinely gifted story-teller". His depictions of authoritarianism, violence and machismo, using rich language and imagery, made him a star of the Latin American Boom literary movement that shone a global spotlight on the continent.At first sympathetic to left-wing ideas, he grew disillusioned with Latin America's revolutionary causes, eventually running unsuccessfully for the Peruvian presidency with a centre-right party in 1990.Vargas...

April 14, 2025

Mario Vargas Llosa: Giant of Latin American literature, with a punch to match

Gatwa has appeared in Barbie and Sex Education, and is about to star in his second season of Doctor Who

Ncuti Gatwa cast as Elizabethan playwright Marlowe

LONDON — Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa has been cast in a new play as Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe, the Royal Shakespeare Company has announced.Born With Teeth will explore the relationship between a 27-year-old Marlowe and rising star William Shakespeare, as they are forced to work together on a new piece of work.Gatwa said he was "so excited" to be appearing in the play, which he said was "like no version of Shakespeare and Marlowe that I've ever seen before".Shakespeare will be portrayed by Edward Bluemel, who has starred in Killing Eve, A Discovery of Witches, and alongside Gatwa in Sex Education.The show will play for 11 weeks at the Wyndham's Theatre from 13 August.Born With Teeth, written Liz Duffy Adams, will take an "irreverent"...

April 11, 2025

Ncuti Gatwa cast as Elizabethan playwright Marlowe

Scarlett Johansson is making her directorial debut at the Cannes Film Festival

Scarlett Johansson hitting Cannes both on-screen and behind the camera

CANNES — Oscar-winning actress and Avengers star Scarlett Johansson is featuring twice at this year's Cannes Film Festival, both in front of and behind the camera.She will appear in Wes Anderson's new project, The Phoenician Scheme, alongside Benicio Del Toro and Tom Hanks and off-screen in her first directorial project.Her new film, Eleanor the Great, has also been revealed as part of the line-up and follows an elderly woman as she copes with the death of her best friend.Johansson's starring role comes as organisers of the film festival have said that they are committed to showcasing more work from female filmmakers.Speaking at a press conference, Cannes president Iris Knobloch said she was "honored to amplify" the voices of women.Johansson, 40, who is best known...

April 11, 2025

Scarlett Johansson hitting Cannes both on-screen and behind the camera

The digital scan shows the bow sitting upright on the sea floor

Titanic scan reveals ground-breaking details of ship's final hours

LONDON — A detailed analysis of a full-sized digital scan of the Titanic has revealed new insight into the doomed liner's final hours.The exact 3D replica shows the violence of how the ship ripped in two as it sank after hitting an iceberg in 1912 — 1,500 people lost their lives in the disaster.The scan provides a new view of a boiler room, confirming eye-witness accounts that engineers worked right to the end to keep the ship's lights on.And a computer simulation also suggests that punctures in the hull the size of A4 pieces of paper led to the ship's demise."Titanic is the last surviving eyewitness to the disaster, and she still has stories to tell," said Parks Stephenson, a Titanic analyst.The scan has been studied for a new documentary by National Geographic...

April 09, 2025

Titanic scan reveals ground-breaking details of ship's final hours

Fawad Khan, an actor, singer and producer with a huge following in India, announced his Bollywood comeback last week, sending fans into a frenzy

Pakistani star’s Bollywood return excites fans and riles far right

MUMBAI — Excitement is growing in cinema-mad India for the return of a movie star from Pakistan to its big screens after his long absence due to an industry ban on artists from the neighboring country.Fawad Khan, an actor, singer and producer with a huge following in India, announced his Bollywood comeback last week, sending fans into a frenzy, 18 months after an Indian court effectively ruled that a de facto industry ban on Pakistani talent imposed in 2016 was illegal.“The wait is over! Bringing love back to the big screen,” Khan posted to Instagram last week, alongside a short teaser for the May 9 release of rom-com “Abir Gulaal.”The post set off a wave of excitement among fans on social media and on the streets of Mumbai, the home of Bollywood.“Super stoked to have an artist...

April 08, 2025

Pakistani star’s Bollywood return excites fans and riles far right

Grace holds baby Amy with her husband Angus at her bedside. They are surrounded by smiling medics at the Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospit

First baby born in UK to woman with transplanted womb

LONDON — A "miracle" baby girl has become the first child in the UK to be born to a mother using a donated womb.The baby's mum, Grace Davidson, 36, was born without a functioning uterus, and received her sister's womb in 2023 – in what was then the UK's only successful womb transplant.Two years after that pioneering operation, Grace gave birth to her first child in February. She and her husband, Angus, 37, have named their daughter Amy after Grace's sister, who donated her womb.Holding baby Amy — who weighed just over two kilos (four and a half pounds) — for the first time was "incredible" and "surreal", new mum Grace says."It was quite overwhelming because we'd never really let ourselves imagine what it would be like for her...

April 08, 2025

First baby born in UK to woman with transplanted womb

Ed Sheeran premiered his single on BBC Radio 1 and Radio 2 while riding around London on a pink open-top bus

Ed Sheeran weaves Persian music into new song, Azizam

LONDON — After a pair of low-key, introspective albums, Ed Sheeran has returned to his roots with a shimmering new pop single, Azizam.The track sees the star incorporate Middle Eastern influences, inspired by producer Illya Salmanzadeh's Persian heritage.The title means "my dear" or "my darling" in Farsi, and the track incorporates instruments like the ghatam, a clay pot commonly used as percussion in Southern India, and the santur, a hammered dulcimer of Iranian origin."Now the song's finished, and it's out, I'm discovering more and more every single day that Persians are really, really proud of their culture, and it's great to celebrate it," Sheeran told BBC Radio 1.Azizam is released in a crowded week for new music, with comeback songs...

April 04, 2025

Ed Sheeran weaves Persian music into new song, Azizam

Manoj Kumar was popular for his patriotic films

Veteran Bollywood actor Manoj Kumar dies at 87

MUMBAI — Veteran Bollywood actor and director Manoj Kumar has died at the age of 87 in India's financial capital, Mumbai.The actor died of "age-related health issues", Dr Santosh Shetty of Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, where the actor was admitted, said.His son, Kunal Goswami, told ANI news agency that Kumar had been battling health issues for a long time.Kumar leaves behind a rich legacy of patriotic films, which propelled him to fame in the 1960s and 1970s.Tributes from fans, celebrities, and politicians have been pouring in on social media, mourning his death.Prime Minister Narendra Modi called him an "icon of Indian cinema"."Manoj Ji's [a term of respect in Hindi] works ignited a spirit of national pride and will continue to inspire...

April 04, 2025

Veteran Bollywood actor Manoj Kumar dies at 87

Disney Actor Rachel Zegler in Disney's live action Snow White film. She is wearing a red cape and silver necklace

Disney's Snow White film tops box office despite bad reviews

LOS ANGELES — Disney's live-action version of the classic fairy-tale Snow White has topped the North American box office chart despite a slew of underwhelming reviews.The movie has taken an estimated $87.3m (£67.5m) globally during its opening weekend, according to Box Office Mojo. Almost half of that figure came from North America.But that is below expectations for a film which reportedly cost more than $270m.The reworking of the 1937 feature length animation had seemed like a surefire hit before running into a series of controversies ahead of its release.The revamp of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs became a flashpoint for social and political divisions, even before it reached cinemas around the world.That included some criticism of the casting of Rachel Zegler, who is of...

March 24, 2025

Disney's Snow White film tops box office despite bad reviews

South Korean K-pop group NewJeans say they are pausing all future activities

NewJeans announces hiatus after setback in court battle

SEOUL — South Korean K-pop group NewJeans have announced they are taking a break from all activities, after a court ruled against them in their ongoing dispute with their record label Ador.The five-piece, who have attempted to rebrand as NJZ, announced during a show at ComplexCon Hong Kong on Sunday that "this will be our last performance for a little while", after debuting their new song Pit Stop.The court ruling on Friday forbade the group from organizing their own appearances, making music or signing advertising deals during their dispute with Ardor.NewJeans are seeking to cut ties with Ador after accusing them of mistreatment, and have said they will challenge the court's ruling.The Hong Kong concert on Sunday night marked the group's first public appearance since...

March 24, 2025

NewJeans announces hiatus after setback in court battle

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