Arts / EntertainmentHitman film and AIDS drama tipped to win at Cannes
The Cannes film festival ends Sunday with a movie about a hammer-wielding hitman, a rousing story of AIDS activists and a parable of Putin's Russia among the favourites to lift its top prize, the Palm
May 28, 2017
Arts / EntertainmentHollywood raids bookshelves in search of good stories
Hollywood has always adapted the classics but film and television's voracious appetite for new material now has film-makers raiding the bookshelves like never before.Six of the movies in the runni
May 28, 2017
Arts / EntertainmentHunter-gatherers win battle against Kenya government
The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights Friday ruled the Kenyan government had violated the rights and freedoms of the Ogiek hunter-gatherer people by driving them out of their ancestral lands.
May 28, 2017
Arts / EntertainmentGoogle’s AlphaGo retires on top after humbling world No. 1
SHANGHAI: The Google-owned computer algorithm AlphaGo is retiring from playing humans in the ancient Chinese game of Go after roundly defeating the world’s top player this week, its developer said Saturday. AlphaGo<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/05/28/googles-alphago-retires-on-top-after-humbling-world-no-1/" title="Read more" >...</a>
May 28, 2017
ForeignUK lowers threat level as Manchester bomber photos released
MANCHESTER: Britain on Saturday lowered the terror threat level which was hiked after this week’s carnage in Manchester as police released CCTV footage of bomber Salman Abedi on the night of t
May 28, 2017
Arts / EntertainmentArab TV series showcases untold stories of IS women
They are mothers, daughters, wives -- and suicide bombers: an Arab television drama timed for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan tells the untold stories of women and the Islamic State group.Inspire
May 26, 2017
Arts / EntertainmentSecurity beefed up as millions expected at Sydney’s Vivid Festival
One of Australia's biggest draw cards, the Sydney Vivid light show, got underway Friday with police vowing to take to the skies, streets and waterways in the wake of the terror attack in Britain this
May 26, 2017
Arts / EntertainmentU.S. spacecraft finds cyclones, ammonia river on Jupiter
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA: Jupiter's atmosphere features colossal cyclones and rivers of ammonia welling up from deep inside the solar system's largest planet, researchers said on Thursday, publishing the
May 26, 2017
Arts / EntertainmentFrom coal miner to writer of China’s hit TV show
In the midst of China’s Cultural Revolution, a 14-year-old coal miner bought a yellowing, torn copy of Honore de Balzac’s biography from a book collector on the side of the street. He<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/05/25/from-coal-miner-to-writer-of-chinas-hit-tv-show/" title="Read more" >...</a>
May 25, 2017
Arts / EntertainmentNew Cairo museum hopes Tutankhamun’s chariot will be a draw for tourists
CAIRO: A chariot and funeral bed belonging to ancient Egypt's boy-king Tutankhamun were safely moved on Tuesday across Cairo to a new museum that Egypt hopes will lure back wary tourists.Just beyo
May 25, 2017
Arts / EntertainmentFilm breaks silence on ‘madness’ of Sri Lanka civil war
Jude Ratnam is worried how his film might go down with his fellow Sri Lankan Tamils. And he has a point."Demons in Paradise", which is premiering at the Cannes film festival, tells of the bloodbat
May 25, 2017
Arts / EntertainmentNew Zealand launches into space race with 3D-printed rocket
WELLINGTON: Rocket Lab, a Silicon Valley-funded space launch company, on Thursday launched the maiden flight of its battery-powered, 3-D printed rocket from New Zealand's remote Mahia Peninsula."M
May 25, 2017