Entertainment

• Tuesday, January 5th 2021 - 09:40 UTC

  Uruguayan players condemn FA's sanction on Cavani which it described as “ignorant and racist”

  

  Uruguay internationals Diego Godin and Luis Suarez have joined forces to condemn England's Football Association ban handed to Edison Cavani while also branding England's governing body “ignorant” and “racist.”

• Wednesday, December 30th 2020 - 08:00 UTC

  Greenest and craziest 180,00 tons cruise vessel Mardi Gras offers a roller coaster and brewery for craft beers

  

  In cold, dark Finland, in the middle of the pandemic, shipyard workers at Meyer Turku were hard at work setting a roller coaster on top of a cruise ship - a world first. Others were installing a brewery that could produce craft beers with filtered seawater, intended for a staggering on-board audience of up to 6,500 passengers.

• Wednesday, December 30th 2020 - 07:58 UTC

  Controversial couturier and merchandising king Pierre Cardin dies aged 98

  

  French couturier Pierre Cardin, who made his name by selling designer clothes to the masses, and his fortune by being the first to exploit that name as a brand for selling everything from cars to perfume, died on Tuesday, aged 98.

• Wednesday, December 23rd 2020 - 09:22 UTC

  Widowed penguins comforting each other, winner of Ocean Photograph awards

  

  The year 2020 has produced many poignant and powerful photographs. But a shot of two widowed penguins appearing to comfort one another in Australia has been picked out as a winner in Oceanographic magazine's Ocean Photograph Awards.

• Monday, December 14th 2020 - 09:14 UTC

  Brazilian church plays a nativity scene in a burnt deforested Amazon and with a black baby Jesus

  

  Instead of a manger in Bethlehem, Jesus will arrive this Christmas in a badly burned clearing in the Amazon rainforest as a black baby born to a black virgin with indigenous cherubs looking on.

• Monday, December 14th 2020 - 08:00 UTC

  Espionage writer and literary giant, John le Carré dies aged 89

  

  British espionage writer John le Carré has died aged 89, following a short illness, his literary agent has said. The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy author died from pneumonia on Saturday night.

• Tuesday, December 8th 2020 - 08:44 UTC

  Proposal to have Maradona and his “Hand of God” goal on the 1,000 Peso bill

  

  An Argentine senator wants to put Diego Maradona on the country’s banknotes and presented a project to Congress on Monday to get the late soccer star and possibly even his ‘Hand of God’ image on a 1,000-peso note.

• Tuesday, December 8th 2020 - 08:00 UTC

  Bob Dylan sells the rights of his entire catalogue to Universal Music Group

  

  US singer-songwriter Bob Dylan has sold the rights to his entire back catalogue to Universal Music Group (UMG). The deal is one of the biggest acquisitions in Universal's history and means the company will collect all future income from the songs.

• Friday, December 4th 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  An eight mile wall of prehistoric art discovered in the Colombian Amazon

  

  Prehistoric rock art discovered in Colombia is being hailed as the “Sistine Chapel of the ancients”. The eight-mile wall of art was created by the first humans of the Amazon some 12,500 years ago and now a wildlife filmmaker is sharing images and videos of the monumental artwork in a new documentary.

• Wednesday, December 2nd 2020 - 08:58 UTC

  Dozens of robbers take over a town in southern Brazil and loot the local bank

  

  Dozens of gunmen armed with assault rifles invaded a city in southern Brazil overnight Tuesday and took control of the streets as they assaulted a local bank.