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29 January 2016 • 07:54 AMT
Harrison Ford, Anthony Hopkins to star in “Official Secrets”

The film centers on a young British intelligence officer who became famous when leaking information to the press.

29 January 2016 • 07:46 AMT
Sony posts 33.5% jump in quarterly profit

Sony kept its full-year profit projection unchanged at $1.2bn, which would be a reversal from red ink in the previous fiscal year.

29 January 2016 • 07:38 AMT
Berlin Int’l Film Festival to feature movie on Armenian Genocide

Interweaving his images with extracts from classical films, the director draws parallels between the Genocide and Syrians’ reality today.

29 January 2016 • 07:34 AMT
Canada to seek closer ties with Russia despite Ukraine: Foreign Minister

“If we don’t engage with Russia we don’t help Ukraine (and) we don’t help Canada’s interests,” Foreign Minister Stephane Dion said.

29 January 2016 • 07:33 AMT
Colin Trevorrow says “Star Wars Episode IX” will be shot in outer space

Kathleen Kennedy, Lawrence Kasdan and Simon Kinberg will produce the movie. Kasdan and Kinberg also team up to pen the script.

29 January 2016 • 07:19 AMT
Oscar winner Kathryn Bigelow to helm crime drama about Detroit riots

The crime drama is set against the backdrop of Detroit’s devastating riots that took place over five haunting summer days in 1967.

29 January 2016 • 07:10 AMT
Amazon building “Spotify-killer” music service, report says

Amazon is prepping its first-ever Super Bowl commercial, a $5 million spot starring Alec Baldwin, to promote its latest gadget, Echo.

29 January 2016 • 07:07 AMT
“House of Cards” hit series renewed for season 5, showrunner exits

Showrunner Beau Willimon released a statement, saying he’s leaving the show in very capable hands.

29 January 2016 • 07:07 AMT
Germany unveils plans to tighten asylum granting rules

Morocco has already responded to the proposal, saying it would repatriate any of its nationals who had arrived illegally in Germany.

29 January 2016 • 07:04 AMT
“Fifty Shades Darker” finds its cougar in Kim Basinger

Basinger won a best supporting Oscar for her turn opposite Russell Crowe in 1997’s “L.A. Confidential”.

29 January 2016 • 06:39 AMT
Whoopi Goldberg, Benicio Del Toro among Oscar presenters

There is no official word just yet, but GaGa, Smith and Weeknd are expected to perform their Oscar-nominated songs.

29 January 2016 • 06:38 AMT
Zika vaccine is years away, U.S. health chief says

Hopes are high that a so-called Phase I clinical trial could begin later this year to test the safety and efficacy of a Zika vaccine in people.

29 January 2016 • 06:28 AMT
UN says Iran, Israel could ratify nuclear test ban treaty

“Both of them can take leadership and show carte blanche to the world to say we have together decided to ratify the CTBT,” an official said.

29 January 2016 • 06:18 AMT
ICC launches probe into alleged war crimes in S. Ossetia conflict

Judges concluded that “there is a basis to believe that crimes within the ICC’s jurisdiction have been committed in the situation in Georgia”.

29 January 2016 • 04:22 AMT
Fresno State to host lecture on Armenian Genocide

Umit Kurt is a PhD. Candidate at Holocaust and Genocide Studies Program in the History Department of Clark University.

29 January 2016 • 04:12 AMT
Syrian opposition steps away from peace talks

Riad Hijab, who heads the Syrian opposition council, said members might be in Geneva, but would not attend the talks.

28 January 2016 • 15:10 AMT
Gábor Záborszky’s retrospective exhibit on display at Ludwig Museum

The distinguished artist’s life-work, from the beginning to the most recent works, was selected with expertise by art historian Péter Fitz.

28 January 2016 • 14:53 AMT
Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk brings “Museum of Innocence” to London

The unique collaboration between the author and the Somerset House gallery physically recreates his 2008 novel “The Museum of Innocence”.

28 January 2016 • 14:40 AMT
Netflix to land Indian comedy “Brahman Naman”

The picture centers on a group of sex-starved young men who are members of their college quiz team in 1980s India.

28 January 2016 • 14:38 AMT
Suzuki recalls 68,000 motorcycles over battery charging issue

One customer filed a complaint in the U.S., but more than 200 complaints were received from other countries.

28 January 2016 • 14:33 AMT
Legendary designer Manolo Blahnik doc in the works

The Blahnik shoes were popularized during the ’90s by being frequently mentioned on “Sex and the City”.

28 January 2016 • 13:58 AMT
Rihanna debuts new Single “Work” ft. Drake

It’s declared the first official single leading up to the much-anticipated release of her next studio installment “Anti”.

28 January 2016 • 13:51 AMT
0.03% of North Korea’s population has access to Web

They do however, have their own version of Facebook – although the users are only allowed to post birthday messages.

28 January 2016 • 13:46 AMT
Total says will sign contract to buy Iran’s crude oil

Iran, which has the world’s fourth-largest oil reserves, currently produces 2.8 million barrels a day, about a million of which are destined for export.

28 January 2016 • 13:34 AMT
Natalie Portman, Jimmy Fallon join Sia during “Tonight Show”

Sia was actually promoting her upcoming album “This Is Acting” during her appearance on “Tonight Show”, performing “Cheap Thrills”.

28 January 2016 • 13:12 AMT
British economy ends 2015 at steady pace

The Office of National Statistics said preliminary estimates showed full-year growth slowed to 2.2% from 2.9% the year before.

28 January 2016 • 13:08 AMT
Embankment nabs Alicia Vikander, James McAvoy’s “Submergence”

Vikander is set to star as Danielle, an ocean explorer facing a terrifying, pioneering descent into the Arctic abyss.

28 January 2016 • 13:01 AMT
WHO to decide if Zika virus outbreak is global emergency

WHO last declared an international emergency over the devastating 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, which killed over 11,000 people.

28 January 2016 • 13:00 AMT
Bulgari to back Giuseppe Tornatore-helmed Ennio Morricone doc

Morricone, who is 87, has more than 500 movie credits to this name including scores for Sergio Leone’s so-called “Dollars Trilogy”.

28 January 2016 • 12:58 AMT
Rouhani says wants to “turn the page” in Iran-France relations

“France is ready to use its companies, its engineers, its technicians and its many resources to help to modernize your country,” the French PM said.