Entertainment

Wednesday, January 15th 2020 - 09:34 UTC
Australian Open tennis qualifying disrupted by poor air quality as smoke blankets Melbourne

Australian Open qualifying was disrupted for a second successive day due to poor air quality on Wednesday as smoke from bushfires continued to blanket Melbourne in an acrid haze. Organizers of the year's first Grand Slam said practice had been suspended at Melbourne Park until 11am and qualifiers would not get under way until 1pm.
Tuesday, January 14th 2020 - 09:20 UTC
Barcelona overtakes Real Madrid as top of the Deloitte Football Money League

Barcelona have overtaken Real Madrid to top the Deloitte Football Money League for the first time and become the first club to break the 800 million Euros revenue barrier. The 23rd edition of the table shows an 11% rise in combined revenues, excluding transfer fees, for the top 20 clubs who between them enjoyed turnovers of a record 9.3 billion euros for the 2018-19 season.
Monday, January 13th 2020 - 09:44 UTC
Uruguay becoming a premium olive oil production and exporting country

Olive oil producers in Uruguay enjoyed a record-setting harvest in 2019, according to a new report compiled by Uruguay’s Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries. In effect Uruguay produced 2,775 tons of extra virgin olive oil, according to the report, an increase of more than 360% over the rolling five-year average.
Monday, January 13th 2020 - 09:20 UTC
Iran's only female Olympic medalist abandons the country fed up with oppression and forced to follow orders

Iran's only female Olympic medalist has said on social media she had left her homeland because she had had enough of being used by its authorities as a propaganda tool. Taekwondo champion Kimia Alizadeh, who won a bronze medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics, implied in an Instagram post that she had moved to Europe. She wrote on an account she has used for some time, but it was not immediately possible to verify her location.
Friday, January 10th 2020 - 09:50 UTC
Brazilian judge orders Netflix to stop showing a movie depicting Jesus as gay

A Brazilian judge ordered the streaming entertainment service Netflix to stop showing a controversial movie depicting Jesus as a gay man, according to court documents made public. In the ruling against Netflix, the state court judge said: “The right to freedom of expression... is not absolute.”
Monday, January 6th 2020 - 09:00 UTC
“Tuna King” pays US$ 1.8 million for a giant tuna at Tokyo's ,main fish market

A celebrated Japanese sushi businessman, nicknamed “Tuna King”, paid US$1.8 million for a giant tuna at New Year's auction at Tokyo's main fish market on Sunday. Kiyoshi Kimura, who runs a successful sushi restaurant chain, paid 193 million yen (US$1.8 million) to purchase a 276kg bluefin tuna, caught off the Aomori region in northern Japan.
Friday, January 3rd 2020 - 08:37 UTC
Falklands' farmer and charity worker awarded the BEM in the Queen's New Year Honor List

$Port Edgar farmer Tex Alazia$

The Falkland Islands' farmer and committed charity worker Tex Alazia was awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) in the Queen's New Year's Honors List.
Tuesday, December 31st 2019 - 12:30 UTC
An intriguing Netflix's production, “The prosecutor, the president and the spy”

Netflix will be launching on January first a six-chapter film on one of the most intriguing criminal cases in recent Argentina history, still unsolved, which refers to the killing of former special prosecutor Alberto Nisman, and which was first categorized as suicide.
Monday, December 30th 2019 - 09:45 UTC
Freezing record: Six men cross the Drake Passage to Antarctica rowing, in 13 days

As freezing water thrashed their rowboat in some of the most treacherous waters in the world, six men fought for 13 days to make history, becoming the first people to traverse the infamous Drake Passage with nothing other than sheer manpower.
Monday, December 30th 2019 - 08:01 UTC
Carnival Panorama wins the “Best New Cruise Ship of 2019” Award

Carnival Panorama has won the “Best New Cruise Ship” of 2019 in the Cruise Ship Awards. The new Vista-class vessel was up against Spectrum of the Seas from Royal Caribbean, Norwegian Encore operated by NCL, Sky Princess from Princess Cruises, MSC Bellissima from MSC Cruises, Costa Smeralda operated by Costa Cruises, MSC Grandiosa from MSC Cruises and Costa Venezia which is also in the Costa Cruises fleet.