The night sky will bring an added treat this Halloween as it features a spectacle that has not occurred in nearly two decades. Halloween is shaping up much differently this year due to the coronavirus pandemic with some communities electing to cancel trick-or-treating to reduce the risk of the virus spreading from one household to another. […]
Facebook Inc said on Wednesday it is launching its dating service in 32 European countries after the rollout was delayed earlier this year due to regulatory concerns. The social media company had postponed the rollout of Facebook Dating in Europe in February after concerns were raised by Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner (DPC), the main regulator […]
Indian streaming service Eros Now issued an apology on Thursday to its Twitter followers — on the very platform where it posted its inappropriate Navratri ads — when the Internet backlashed against the campaign, deeming it “vulgar” and offensive. Owned by motion picture production company Eros International, the service found itself recalling its suggestive posters, […]
Emirates has earned the top spot at the Business Traveller Middle East Awards 2020, sweeping away four awards, including the coveted ‘Best Airline Worldwide’ award for the seventh consecutive year. The other three bagged titles were the ‘Airline with the Best First Class’, ‘Airline with Best Cabin Crew’ and ‘Best Airport Lounge in the Middle […]
A prominent European Jewish organization slammed a Munich auction house’s decision to sell several of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler’s handwritten speech notes, saying Tuesday it “defies logic, decency and humanity” to put them on the market. Rabbi Menachem Margolin, the head of the Brussels-based European Jewish Association, said the upcoming sale of the manuscripts is […]
Sony heralds in their support for the nation-sweeping Black Lives Matter movement with launch of new PlayStation (PS) theme for gamers. The wildly popular gaming console has released a new static theme on the PS Store called the “Black Lives Matter Theme” available for free download. Hued in colours black and yellow, the user interface […]
Peruvian archaeologists have come across a massive cat-like carving into the side of a hill dating back to over 2,000 years ago, according to the country’s Ministry of Culture. Stamped on a lookout point at the UNESCO heritage site known as Nazca Lines, the dusty caricature was unearthed during the team’s remodelling work. A cat geoglyph, by […]
A Thai court on Tuesday ordered the suspension of an online TV station critical of the government, which has accused it of violating emergency measures aimed at ending three months of protests. Voice TV had also been found to have breached the Computer Crime Act by uploading “false information,” digital ministry spokesman Putchapong Nodthaisong told […]
Disney+ has plussed out with the wording of its updated disclaimer, owning up to past errors that racialized its era-bygone characters — and now, subtly adding a new layer to its warnings to all its ‘negative’ content. The streaming platform has rephrased its initial “outdated cultural depictions” warning — in use since November 2019 with a 12-second, cannot-be-skipped […]
From factory to syringe, the world’s most promising coronavirus vaccine candidates need nonstop sterile refrigeration to work. But despite great strides in equipping developing countries to maintain the vaccine “cold chain,” nearly 3 billion of the world’s 7.8 billion people live in places with insufficient temperature-controlled storage for an immunisation campaign to bring COVID-19 under control. […]
Liam Neeson’s thriller “Honest Thief” limped to first place at the domestic box office, debuting at $3.7 million. Those ticket sales, among the lowest ever to land at No. 1, came in slightly ahead of Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” and Robert De Niro’s family comedy “War With Grandpa.” “Tenet,” now in its seventh week of release, […]
