London, UK, 24 November 2025 – The world’s music industry came together at the Southbank Centre on Saturday to celebrate the 11 groundbreaking winners of the 2025 Aga Khan Music Awards (AKMA).
The winners are from Morocco, Bahrain, Türkiye,…

London, UK, 24 November 2025 – The world’s music industry came together at the Southbank Centre on Saturday to celebrate the 11 groundbreaking winners of the 2025 Aga Khan Music Awards (AKMA).
The winners are from Morocco, Bahrain, Türkiye,…

The Marrakech Film Festival’s project and talent development program the Atlas Workshops is enjoying a banner year.
The annual meeting, focused on Moroccan, Arab and African feature projects and taking its name from the mountain range…

A woman who was diagnosed with breast cancer twice has said she did not think a lump she found was life threatening because she was too young.
Rachael Kershaw, from Dorset, took part in a 100km (62 miles) trek across the Saharan Desert to raise…

The veteran German actor Udo Kier, best known internationally for his striking performances in arthouse titles like Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves and My Own Private Idaho by Gus Van Sant, has died. He was 81.
News of Kier’s death…

The extraordinary promotional juggernaut for Wicked: For Good, Jon M Chu’s sequel to the 2024 first instalment of his Broadway adaptation, appears to have paid off, with the film this weekend smashing box office records held by its predecessor.

CNN has unveiled British TV broadcaster and entrepreneur Laura Jackson as the host of the second instalment of its multi-platform series “Seasons.”
“Seasons” explores the shifting trends shaping global culture across…

A haunting 1940 self-portrait by famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold Thursday for $54.7 million and became the top-selling work by any female artist at an auction.
The painting of Kahlo asleep in a bed — titled “El sueño (La cama)” or…

Melodic metalcore band Bad Omens are pulling out all the stops for their first UK arena headline tour. In the first five minutes, we’ve experienced huge riffs, pillars of fire and supernatural horror-inspired visuals. Formed in 2015, the US…

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On the red carpet, the plentiful tributes were heartfelt. “Franca used fashion to say something different, making it something more profound,” Pierpaolo Piccioli said. “Everything she did—from the Black issue to the ecological…