Chariots of Fire composer Vangelis Papathanassiou, the Greek musician who won an Oscar for the 1981 film theme and also wrote the Blade Runner soundtrack dies aged 79. Vangeli’s Chariots of Fire theme famously accompanied shots of athletes running along the beach in St Andrews, Scotland, at the start of the film, which was…
The US streaming giant is forced to lay off 150 staff to minimise the cost of views quitting the service which will affect mainly its US office in California, as it battles an exodus of viewers. These changes are primarily driven by business needs rather than individual performance, which makes them especially tough as none…
https://youtu.be/au06yHMuMGc In Los Angeles Mickey Haller played by Manuel Gracia-Rulfo is a defense criminal attorney who operates with last-minute twists for the finale, keeping viewers glued to Netflix and on the edge of their seats. The Lincoln Lawyer, based on the novel The Brass Verdict by Michale Connelly, and a remake of the 2011…
Inflation leaps from seven per cent in March was as much in a single month as the Bank of England’s inflation target for an entire year, as the petrol prices hit a new all-time high of £1.67 at the pump and City experts cautioned that supermarket and energy bills, as well as the mortgages, will…
In Kerala, the loss-making state-run KSTRC’s low-floor buses instead of being scrapped will be turned into classrooms, where 94 per cent of literacy, Male literacy is 96.11 per cent while the female is 92.7 per cent, the highest in India, according to State Transport Minister Anthony Raju. Girls dropping out of school increased due to…
Jean-Paul Gaultier, the French haute couture and preta porter designer, is known for his unconventional designs including the illusion of nude via his naked body Trompe I’ceil print dress, long-sleeved bodysuit with crew neck three buttons snap fastening at the realistic-looking crotch, bottom and breasts made with Volkova stretch-jersey maxi dress, 89 per cent polyamide,…
In Jerusalem, what you see and what is true are two different things, as maps divide the walled Old City into four quarters, yet the division doesn’t reflect the reality of mixed and diverse neighborhoods. Beyond the crush and frenzy of its major religious sites, much of the Old City remains little known to visitors,…
Tina Brown, a former Editor of Tatler, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker, and author of the bestselling “ The Diana Chronicles (2007)”. The Palace Papers, take the readers on a tour that shows the Queens’s stoic resolve as she copes with the passing of Princess Margaret, the Queen Mother, and her partner for seven…
A $1 trillion crypto crash wipes out the price of Avalanche, Bitcoin, BNB, Cardano, Ethereum, and Solana. Two main cryptocurrencies Stablecoins from the crypto project Terra have gone into free fall prompting the incident of a Ponzi scheme akin to the collapse of Lehman Brothers which precipitated in 2008 financial crisis. UST created by…
“Necessity is the mother of invention” if you really need to do something and becomes essential you are forced to think of ways of achieving it encouraged by creative efforts. Much of my art can be broadly quantified as NAIVE – of or denoting art produced in a style which deliberately rejects sophisticated techniques and…