The 10th edition of an International award that celebrates the work of emerging and established photographers. All profits from entry fees is donated to the Lavender Trust at Breast Cancer Care. Hometown of Robert Frank, Wipkingen, Zurich ( Finalist: single image in Life Category) Photograph: John MacLean Enrique ( Winner Single image in Identity…
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said its board “voted well in excess of the required two-thirds majority” to expel Harvey Weinstein following numerous allegations of sexual assault made against the film producer. Weinstein’s films have received more than 300 Oscar nominations and won 81. In a statement the Academy said “not simply…
Samsung Electronics was crowned the most profitable tech group this summer, marking its decade-long metamorphosis from a purveyor of cheap consumer goods to a household name. The group announced record-breaking profits for the third quarter of Won 14.5tn ( £9.6billion) – a near trebling from the same period a year earlier. The Group – the jewel in…
The Man Booker prize is one of the most enduring literary prizes, which grew influence and power, among booksellers, publishers and readers alike. Three men and three women Paul Auster, Emily Fridlund, Moshin Hamid, Fiona Mozley, George Saunders and Ali Smith are six shortlisted authors for the 2017 Man Book Prize for Fiction, according to…
Set in Cote d’Azur with 35 acres , the 187-year-old, 14-bedroom mansion on Cote d’Azur, along the coast of Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, which once belonged Belgian royalty King Leopold II, was put up for sale for £315 million. The Extravagant home with luxurious interiors, features a ball room, an Olympic sixe swimming pool and stables for…
Winston Churchill’s four-inch Cuban cigar stub was rescued from an ashtray in 1947 by a British airman Corporal William Alan Turner, whose crew flew Churchill and his wife, and preserved it till today has sold for $12,000 ( £9,045) in an online auction. The wartime prime minister smoke the cigar at Paris’ Le Bourget airport…
A 50-year-old Rolex Oyster Perpetual Submariner wristwatch with orange numerals, which survived falling into a cement mixer has been sold for £230,000, reaching a new UK record. It was originally tipped to fetch only about £8,000, but the timepiece, bought by its previous owner in 1965, sold for £230k. The Italian collector who outbid his…
In response to the New York Times revelation of Harvey Weinstein’s alleged serial sexual harassment, he released a statement “ I came of age in the 60sd and 70s, when all the rules about behaviour and workplaces were different, as that was the culture then.” There was a time when Hollywood studio bosses regarded young…
The Last Jedi is finally here, with some impressive battles and visuals and teases galaxy plodding plotlines with some cool new images.
