Adoring crowds are flocking to a zoo in Shanghai to watch Junjun, a bear cub just months old, as he frolics in his enclosure playing with toys, such as a favourite tyre, or splashing in a water trough.Standing m . ft tall and weighing more than kg lbs , the brown bear’s every move...

   The New Zealand government said on Friday it will pass legislation next year to prevent entities that do not share the country’s values from using it as a base to monitor satellites.The South Pacific nation’s location and clear skies make it a good place to launch and monitor satellites from,...

   Neanderthals went extinct roughly , years ago, but in some sense these close cousins of our species are not gone. Their legacy lives on in the genomes of most people on Earth, thanks to interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals.New research is providing the most precise estimate to...

   French fashion house Chanel selected former Bottega Veneta design chief Matthieu Blazy as its next creative director, the company said on Thursday, after months of fevered speculation about the industry’s most coveted job.The choice of Blazy signals a new aesthetic for the privately owned brand,...

   From singers Ariana Grande and Sabrina Carpenter to actors Angelina Jolie and Timothee Chalamet, vocal coach Eric Vetro has worked with numerous celebrities on honing their singing skills.He helped longtime client Grande find a more operatic tone for musical Wicked , prepared Jolie to sing as...

   For actor Taron Egerton, the Netflix action film Carry On pays homage to Transportation Security Administration TSA workers and the on the job struggles they encounter, especially during the holiday season. Our movie is absolutely a kind of spiritual salute to those guys, so I really hope that...

   This Dec. story has been corrected to say that Matthew Rushing became interim director in , not , in paragraph A new exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York spotlights the legacy of Alvin Ailey, the founder of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and a pivotal...

   Director and dancer Carlos Acosta admits he once hated ballet as he launches the London run of his new Cuban inspired version of Tchaikovsky’s festive ballet The Nutcracker .Rather than the usual setting of a small town in Germany in the s, Carlos Acosta’s Nutcracker in Havana still takes...

   NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a young galaxy dating to the early universe called Firefly Sparkle because its gleaming star clusters resemble the bioluminescent bugs in a discovery that is giving astronomers a peek at what our Milky Way may have looked like in its infancy...

   Our top landscape photos from around the world in . A camel caravan moves along the dunes at the Erg Chebbi sand dunes in the Sahara desert outside Merzouga, Morocco, December . REUTERS Darrin Zammit Lupi

   Three dinosaur fossils from the Jurassic period will go under the hammer at a London auction on Thursday, with price estimates of millions of dollars.Christie’s is offering the skeletons of an adult and juvenile Allosaurus, sold as a pair with an estimate of million pounds to million pounds ...

   Fashion brand Maison Margiela has parted ways with its artistic director John Galliano after ten years, its parent company OTB said on Wednesday, without giving any reason for the decision.OTB founder Renzo Rosso hired the ex Christian Dior designer in after he was sacked in by Dior owner...

   Gerard Butler fans are used to seeing the Scottish actor swoop in to save the day in action films like Olympus Has Fallen and Plane .But in his latest movie, the year old takes on a somewhat different role a singing, sometimes rapping, Santa Claus.Butler voices St. Nick in The Night Before...

   For pub owner Jun Jung sook, Seoul’s once vibrant Nokdu Street is not what it used to be when people queued for a table to end their day with Korean mung bean pancakes and shots of the fiery local rice wine makgeolli.The more common sight now is of half empty pubs and bars along the neon lit alley...

   Kraven The Hunter will not be your typical Marvel Comics adaptation, with an R rating that allowed filmmakers to include more gore and construct it like a gangster film, its director says.British actor Aaron Taylor Johnson takes on the lead role in the origin story, which looks at how Kraven’s...

   Musical thriller Emilia Perez and post World War Two epic The Brutalist topped the roster of films nominated on Monday for the Golden Globes, the Hollywood honors that kick off the awards season leading to the Oscars. Emilia Perez, a Spanish language movie released by Netflix NFLX.O ,...

   Our top photography from around the world in . A man jumps off apparent remains of a ballistic missile lying in the desert, following an attack by Iran on Israel, near the southern city of Arad, Israel, October, . REUTERS Amir Cohen

   Stars of Netflix’s NFLX.O mega hit series Squid Game on Monday lamented South Korea’s ongoing political turmoil since last week’s shocking martial law order by President Yoon Suk Yeol but said they were confident the country will overcome the crisis.The show’s highly anticipated second season...

   Fresh corroboration of the perplexing observation that the universe is expanding more rapidly than expected has scientists pondering the cause perhaps some unknown factor involving the mysterious cosmic components dark energy and dark matter.Two years of data from NASA’s James Webb Space...

   Nominations for the Golden Globe awards for film and television were announced on Monday for a ceremony that will take place on Jan. .BEST DRAMA The Brutalist A Complete Unknown Conclave Dune: Part Two Nickel Boys September BEST COMEDY OR MUSICAL Anora Challengers Emilia Pérez A...

   Processions of people wielding flaming brooms may sound like something out of magic tales, but those used to light up a Spanish town every year are the real thing and there is no witchcraft involved, just fun.Every year on Dec., the inhabitants of Jarandilla de la Vera, a town in western Spain...

   Singer songwriter Bonnie Raitt, filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, jazz musician Arturo Sandoval and rock band the Grateful Dead were celebrated at the Kennedy Center Honors on Sunday.The Kennedy Center also honored Harlem’s famed Apollo theater, the first time an institution has received what is...

   Hundreds of fans gathered outside the Yara cinema in Cuba’s capital on Friday evening for a screening of the first TV adaptation of one of Latin America’s most beloved novels, a mammoth challenge taken on by streaming giant Netflix NFLX.O .The first two chapters of One Hundred Years of Solitude ...

   Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral reopens on Saturday, Dec., five and a half years after fire destroyed its roof and spire and caused major damage throughout.Here is what you need to know:A medieval Gothic masterpiece, Notre Dame de Paris Our Lady of Paris is one of the French capital’s most beloved...

   Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral reopens on Saturday, Dec., five and a half years after fire destroyed its roof and spire and caused major damage throughout.Here is what you need to know:A medieval Gothic masterpiece, Notre Dame de Paris Our Lady of Paris is one of the French capital’s most beloved...

   An unconventional assistant, Pablo the pig, plays a key role in his owner’s dog training business in Rio de Janeiro as he helps struggling pups take a chill pill.Pablo’s owner, Uruguayan Jose Luis Garcia, made a career switch after the pandemic to become a dog trainer. In his pet pig, he’s found an...

   Young, well to do Indians’ booming appetite for live entertainment is attracting global music stars as they seek out new audiences in the world’s most populous nation.Dua Lipa and Maroon performed in India’s financial capital Mumbai in the past seven days, while Coldplay, Ed Sheeran, Shawn Mendes...

   Europe’s Arianespace launched the Vega C rocket on Thursday, marking a return to space for the upgraded Italian launcher two years after it failed during a debut commercial mission.Carrying the Sentinel C satellite into orbit for the European Union’s flagship Copernicus Earth observation programme...

   NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced on Thursday new delays in the U.S. space agency’s Artemis program to return astronauts to the moon for the first time since , pushing back the next two planned missions amid potential policy changes under President elect Donald Trump’s administration...

   The American Museum of Natural History revealed the identity of its latest resident on Thursday Apex, one of the most complete specimens ever discovered of the plant eating dinosaur Stegosaurus, known for the upright plates on its back and a spiky tail.To excited gasps from an audience of...