Berlin-based Picture Tree Intl. has boarded international sales on “The Perfect Holiday” (Der perfekte Urlaub), the latest feature from hit German filmmaker Bora Dagtekin. Picture Tree will introduce the project to buyers during the Cannes Market with a first teaser. Dagtekin has directed a string of hit comedies in Germany, all starring Elyas M’Barek, “Turkish…
Police stand accused of engaging in impropriety when raiding the home of former shock jock Alan Jones during a sexual assault investigation. Officers searched the 85-year-old’s Sydney home in November 2024 after an eight-month investigation into reports of historical sexual abuse. On Tuesday, his lawyers told Sydney’s Downing Centre local court the NSW police should…
On May 4, 1976, a spacecraft resembling a disco ball entered orbit almost 3,700 miles (6,000 kilometers) above Earth. This shiny, two‑foot‑wide (60‑centimeter) sphere called the Laser Geodynamics Satellite, or LAGEOS, is covered with 426 retroreflectors—small mirrored prisms designed to bounce laser light directly back to where it came from. Beneath its aluminum exterior sits…
Arsenal goalkeeper David Raya has won the Premier League‘s Golden Glove for the third consecutive campaign. Manchester City’s 3-3 draw at Everton on Monday night means Raya is now guaranteed a share of the accolade at the very least, with Gianluigi Donnarumma four clean sheets behind, with only four games to go. Advertisement Raya can…
Voters in the US state of Ohio are set to go to the polls in the state’s primaries, where they will pick candidates for several key positions in the upcoming midterm elections in November. The outcomes of several races in the Midwestern state could have important implications for the crucial midterms, widely seen as a referendum…
Actor Ayushmann Khurrana is gearing up for the release of his upcoming family entertainer, Pati Patni Aur Woh Do. The film promises to bring back the charm of classic situational comedy, drawing inspiration from the golden era of Hindi cinema. The film taps into a storytelling tradition that audiences have cherished for decades, a space…
A blast at a fireworks factory in Hunan province has killed 26 people and injured 61, state media report.
Jefferson Lewis, the man accused of murdering five-year-old Kumanjayi Little Baby near a town camp on the outskirts of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory last week, has been excused from his first court appearance. Lewis, 47, was expected to appear in the Alice Springs Local Court via video-link on Tuesday morning, charged with murder…
OpenAI on Monday began emailing more than 8,000 developers who applied for its invite-only GPT-5.5 party with a surprise consolation prize: a tenfold increase in Codex rate limits on their personal ChatGPT accounts, effective immediately and lasting through June 5. “We had over 8,000 people express interest in just 24 hours, and while we wish…
Matthew Rhys is leading a BBC drama exploring the work of one the most iconic British journalists of all time. The Americans and Beast in Me star is playing former Sunday Times editor Harry Evans in Dragon Slayers, which will act as a potted 20th century history of UK investigatory work including when Evans’ team…
