“Being here now is a dream come true,” said Florence Kasumba, referring to the filming which has just ended for the new Tatort show, in which she is the first black lead detective to appear. She stars alongside Maria Furtwängler, another famous German actress, with the two of them tracking down criminals in the German city […]
The hoody: It is relaxed and sporty, not particularly eye-catching. But the artists behind a new special hooded sweatshirt are putting the comfortable clothing item in a different light. Whether yellow, green, black gray or blue, all their sweatshirts have one thing in common: They all have a kippa on the hood. The so-called “Solidarity Hoodie” […]
French filmmaker and journalist Claude Lanzmann died on Thursday in Paris at the age of 92. He had been weak for several days, his publisher Gallimard told press agency AFP. Joined French Resistance as a teen Born to Jewish parents in Paris in 1925, Claude Lanzmann was a fighter from the start. He experienced pre-war anti-Semitism […]
There’s a single tweet posted on the account of Sacha Baron Cohen, the provocative British comedian and producer famous for his Borat (top picture), Ali G and Brüno characters. “A message from your President @realDonaldTrump on Independence Day,” his post from Wednesday reads. The message comes in the form of a short video showing Donald Trump declaring, “This […]
If ever there was a time to use the word “nope”, this would be it. A video of a fierce battle between two creatures deemed scary and creepy by most people was captured in China. And one look at the video will make you shudder. This epic fight we’re talking about involved a rat and […]
YouTuber Q Park is no stranger to doing strange things in public. It was a video of him wearing a male romper on the streets of New York City that shot him to fame, after all. This time, in a video that every Bollywood fan will love, the New York-based YouTuber was seen walking on […]
A little girl in Canada is being hailed as a hero for saving her baby brother’s life. Lexie Comeau-Drisdelle from Nova Scotia, Canada, has cerebral palsy, a disorder of movement, muscle tone or motor skills. She, however, did not let that stop her from saving her brother from drowning in the backyard pool at their […]
A rare visiting whale in Wellington Harbour has won hearts in the New Zealand capital but forced officials to cancel the city’s annual fireworks display. The southern right whale appeared in the harbour on Wednesday and has delighted onlookers as it breaches and blows water spouts a short distance from downtown office buildings. Whales regularly […]
In an unfortunate incident in Germany, a bird caught fire from an electric cable, fell down and burned 17 acres of land. The incident took place on Monday evening in the coastal city of Rostock. According to local reports, the fire began in a dry field and soon spread to nearby railway power lines that […]
“The Polaroids helped with making the movies, but they were not an aim in themselves. They were disposable,” said Wim Wenders, who owned a Polaroid camera even before it was a consumer article. Over the years, he took about 12,000 snapshots — giving most of them away. When he dug out the ones he’d saved, Wenders […]
