Magnetars are among the universe’s most extreme objects a class of the compact stellar remnants called neutron stars that possess immensely strong magnetic fields. Once in a while, they produce enormous eruptions of gamma rays in the strongest nondestructive release of energy known in the cosmos...

   A few years ago, Karina Marakshina had to explain what K pop was when asked to describe the musical style of her Moscow dance studio. Now she says she hears it blasting out from nearly every mall where she shops.Russia shares a lengthy border with China and has long fostered cultural ties with East...

   Eurovision fever boosted travel searches for the Swedish coastal city of Malmo by between September and April , Spanish online travel booking company eDreams ODIGEO EDRE.MC said on Wednesday.The Eurovision song contest, the world’s biggest of its kind, takes place in Malmo from ...

   South Korea’s largest music company is auditing the management of one of its labels as it suspects they are planning to break away, the latest case of infighting in K pop, one of the world’s most popular and profitable music industries.HYBE .KS houses multiple labels behind globally...

   China will send three astronauts into low Earth orbit on Thursday in the country’s th crewed mission to space, marking more than two decades of Chinese human spaceflight.Of the crewed missions, half were visits to China’s independently built space station Tiangong, or Celestial Palace in...

   A previously lost string acoustic guitar that belonged to the late John Lennon will go up for sale at an auction in May after it was recently found in the attic of a home in Britain.The auctioneers said Lennon played the guitar, which is expected to exceed its estimate of , to , ,...

   The United States and Russia are set to face off over nuclear weapons in space on Wednesday at the United Nations Security Council, which is due to vote on a U.S. drafted resolution calling on countries to prevent an arms race in outer space.Russia is expected to block the draft resolution, said...

   Brazilian DJ and producer Alok is setting aside his traditional modern electronic dance music to focus on something even more traditional indigenous songs from his country.His new album The Future is Ancestral, released on Friday, features nine dance tracks mixed with indigenous songs, some of...

   Four spears taken from Australia by a British explorer more than years ago will be returned by Cambridge University to descendants of the indigenous community which crafted them, in the latest high profile repatriation of artefacts.The four spears are all that remains of the or so which...

   Britain’s Prince William and his wife Kate thanked the public for their messages which had been sent to mark the sixth birthday of their youngest son Louis on Tuesday.The couple, the Prince and Princess of Wales, also issued a picture of Louis on social media to mark the occasion, showing a close...

   This April story has been refiled to fix the punctuation of Poets in paragraph Taylor Swift fans are flocking to The Black Dog, a pub in southwest London, after it was name checked on the U.S singer’s new album The Tortured Poets Department .Lily Bottomley, the pub’s events and social media...

   After serving Kenergy with Barbie , actor Ryan Gosling turns the spotlight on the movie makers whose job is to shine on screen while remaining invisible in The Fall Guy .The film is inspired by the popular s TV series of the same name and stars Gosling as Colt Seavers, a top Hollywood...

   Joyful singing and cheers echoed around the hills surrounding a small village in western Democratic Republic of Congo as a procession emerged from an underground cave bearing an antique wooden figure of a Belgian colonial officer.The Balot sculpture was made in the area in the s when Congo...

   Egypt welcomed home a, year old statue depicting the head of King Ramses II after it was stolen and smuggled out of the country more than three decades ago, the country’s antiquities ministry said on Sunday.The statue is now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo but not on display. The artefact will...

   Taylor Swift surprised fans with her new record The Tortured Poets Department on Friday, revealing it was a double album featuring songs about heartbreak and a period described as the saddest story of the singer’s life.Swift’s th studio album, featuring tracks, was released at midnight EDT...

   Joel Bueno shed tears of joy as his four legged guests entered the intensive care unit where he had been admitted due to a blood clot.Bueno, , said being showered with affection by therapy dogs Vida and Lu reminded him of his own dog back home. It’s great to have someone that loves you more than...

   Three Russians set a world record for parachuting from the Earth’s stratosphere to the North Pole last week in a mission that also served as a test of a new prototype communications system for use in the Arctic, an organiser of the venture told Reuters.Mikhail Korniyenko, Alexander Lynnik and Denis...

   Rockers Bon Jovi open up about their year career in the new docuseries Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story .In the four part show, archival footage and personal videos and photos are intertwined with present day interviews and scenes of the group embarking on their tour. It documents...

   Louis Vuitton debuted its newly labelled Voyager travelling show in Shanghai on Thursday night, showing off asymmetric hemlines and boxy leather vests in the country that is one of the brand’s key markets.More than, invitees, including international celebrities like Cate Blanchett and local...

   A fossil jawbone found by a British girl and her father on a beach in Somerset, England belongs to a gigantic marine reptile dating to million years ago that appears to have been among the largest animals ever on Earth.Researchers said on Wednesday the bone, called a surangular, was from a type...

   Cuba is famous for its rum cocktails and on Wednesday evening below Havana’s iconic Morro Castle, guarding its bay, people gathered to toast its best known rum, Havana Club, but not with Cuba libres, mojitos and daiquiris in hand.The festivities marked the culmination of an international...

   Fossil vertebrae unearthed in a lignite mine are the remains of one of the largest snakes that ever lived, a monster estimated at up to feet meters in length longer than a T. rex that prowled the swamps of India around million years ago.Scientists said on Thursday they have recovered...

   Russia is working on a modernised Angara A M rocket capable of launching manned spacecraft, and plans to launch it in , the head of its Roscosmos state space agency said on Wednesday. Already now, by order of Roscosmos, a modernized Angara A M rocket with a more powerful propulsion engine is...

   Eight vintage Alfa Romeo cars will go on sale at an auction near Paris on Sunday.The collection, owned by a Franco Swiss family, includes a Tipo racing model estimated to sell at up to . million euros . million . The red racing car marked Alfa Romeo’s postwar comeback to...

   LVMH owned menswear brand Berluti unveiled navy wool suits with coloured silk lapels for France’s Olympic athletes’ opening ceremony outfits on Tuesday.LVMH LVMH.PA , a sponsor of the Paris games, said the tuxedo inspired outfit reflected Berluti’s identity, using noble materials and...

   Zack Snyder says Rebel Moon Part Two: The Scargiver shows his full vision for the franchise.The second installment of the sci fi adventure picks up from where Rebel Moon Part One: A Child of Fire , released four months earlier, left off.It sees Sofia Boutella’s character Kora and a group of...

   French fashion house Christian Dior unveiled a fall line inspired by actress Marlene Dietrich at a catwalk show in New York on Monday evening.Nodding to Dietrich’s personal style, Dior designer Maria Grazia Chiuri dressed models in white shirts, sometimes with ties, pleated trousers and black...

   Astronomers have discovered a black hole with a mass about times greater than that of our sun, the biggest one known in the Milky Way aside from the supermassive black hole lurking at the center of our galaxy.The newly identified black hole is located about, light years from Earth ...

   You might call it a cup of Joe, java, mud, brew, mocha, or your morning jolt. Coffee undoubtedly is a big part of global culture, and the kind made from the Arabica bean is the most appreciated by coffee drinkers.Researchers now have unlocked the genome of the Arabica species and traced its origins...

   Archaeologists surveying the Juukan Gorge rock shelter in Western Australia that was destroyed by Rio Tinto RIO.AX in have unearthed major finds including the tooth of a Tasmanian Devil that has not been recorded on the mainland in, years.The Tasmanian Devil is one of the world’s...