Category: Entertainment

Mon 13 May 2019: For some American viewers, Turkish soap operas are so addictive that they have pushed Hollywood movies aside. Kristen Korie, a middle-aged woman from Florida, said it has been more than a decade since she switched to Turkish series from Hollywood movies. “I left Hollywood around 2007 and started watching international entertainment […]

Sun 12 May 2019: It might be time to open a savings account dedicated to Rihanna: on Friday, she announced the launch of a luxury fashion line with LVMH, the conglomerate that’s also home to Dior, Louis Vuitton and Fendi, among many others. Fenty, set to debut this spring, is the latest of Rihanna’s business […]

Fri 10 May 2019: An Egyptian court jailed a pop singer for two years for suggestively eating a banana and appearing in her underwear in a recent music video. Shyma’s video for the song ‘I have issues’ caused immediate outrage in the highly socially conservative country. Since President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi came to power in […]

Tue 07 May 2019: What’s this? Oh, just a coffee cup. A coffee cup on a table in the great hall of Winterfell in the fictional, very coffee-less realm of Westeros. Sharp-eyed viewers noticed the anachronism during Sunday night’s episode of “Game of Thrones,” and, well, it’s going to be a long time before anyone lets this […]

Tue 07 May 2019: The singer says her children’s lives became dominated by the technology It’s a daily bane of modern parenting that even Madonna appears to have got hung up on: how to keep a child’s attention once you give them a mobile phone. Madonna has complained of losing a link to her children after giving […]

Mon 06 May 2019: A documentary directed by Turkish filmmaker Mesut Gengeç explains the story of 400,000 Ottoman citizens who migrated to the U.S. in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, shedding light on the details of the rarely-spoken migration, which involved dire travel conditions, sickness and even death for some. Gengeç was inspired to make […]

Thu 02 May 2019:  Far from being a Netflix Inc killer, Apple Inc envisions its forthcoming Apple TV+ streaming service as one that could sit alongside other services that viewers buy, Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook said on Tuesday. Apple in March said it will launch a streaming service with original content from big names […]

Tue 30 Apr 2019: “Avengers: Endgame,” the hugely-anticipated superhero series-ender from Marvel, set a new standard for Hollywood blockbusters this weekend with stunning hauls of $357 million in North America and $1.2 billion worldwide, industry data showed Monday. The fourth and final chapter in the adventures of Iron Man, Hulk, Thor and company managed 43 […]

Tue 30 Apr 2019: Born in a Kenyan refugee camp, the Muslim Somali-American model returned to her birth country for historic photoshoot Somali-American model Halima Aden has become the first Muslim model to appear in Sports Illustrated magazine wearing a hijab and burkini. She appeared in the swimsuit edition, out in May, wearing a number of different […]

Thu 25 Apr 2019: Daniel Craig, whose final outing as 007 was unveiled on Thursday, is the longest-serving James Bond — but perhaps not always the most enthusiastic. The 51-year-old’s fifth movie as the British super spy is due for release early next year, 14 years after 2006’s “Casino Royale”. There were initially doubts about […]