Entertainment

• Tuesday, March 12th 2019 - 08:10 UTC

  South African diver experiences “a whale of a time” but survives

  

   A diver who ended up trapped in the mouth of a massive whale joked that he didn't have “a whale of a time” but called the unique encounter “a very special event.” 

Rainer Schimpf, 51, was diving off the coast of South Africa with a documentary crew in February when the breaching whale reached the surface, its mouth wide open. 

• Thursday, March 7th 2019 - 08:48 UTC

  Bolsonaro points to Carnival excesses and triggers Twitter controversy

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has provoked controversy by posting an obscene video of two revelers at Carnival, saying he wanted to reveal the truth about the festival. The clip posted on Twitter shows two men engaging in sex acts on top of a taxi shelter during a street party.

• Wednesday, March 6th 2019 - 09:43 UTC

  Japanese awarded the Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest honor

  

  Japanese architect Arata Isozaki has been awarded the Pritzker Prize, considered architecture's highest honor, for a lifetime of work that found global resonance while mining local traditions.

• Wednesday, March 6th 2019 - 08:15 UTC

  Icon of British sports car engineering to be sold to Italian investor

  

  British sports car maker Morgan is to be sold to an Italian venture capitalist firm. InvestIndustrial will take a majority stake for an undisclosed amount. The Morgan family, which has owned the company for 110 years, will retain a minority shareholding, with the management team and staff also keeping a share of the business.

• Monday, March 4th 2019 - 08:16 UTC

  Footballer Emiliano Sala death unveils the “grey charter” business in the UK

  

  The pilot of the crashed plane carrying footballer Emiliano Sala dropped out of training for his commercial pilot's license before it was completed. David Ibbotson, who has still not been found, was not licensed to carry paying passengers, which has fuelled speculation the flight was illegal. Cardiff City striker Sala's body was found in the wreckage just off Guernsey on 4 February.

• Tuesday, February 26th 2019 - 10:36 UTC

  Mexico disappointed indigenous actress Yalitza was left out of the Oscars' celebration

  

  Cheers echoed through Mexico City’s Roma district when the eponymous film by Alfonso Cuaron won three Oscars on Sunday, but revelers let out a disappointed sigh when best actress didn’t go to the indigenous star of the ode to 1970s life in the capital. In a payback for Cuaron’s black-and-white tribute to growing up among 1970s Roma’s handsome villas and apartment blocks, city officials set up giant screens in a park to watch the live broadcast from Los Angeles.

• Tuesday, February 26th 2019 - 09:29 UTC

  (VIDEO) Terrifying moments as British Airways plane was rocked by turbulence on approaching Gibraltar

  

  Shocking footage has emerged of the terrifying moment that a British Airways plane was buffeted by turbulence as it approached the runway in Gibraltar, forcing pilots to abort and divert to Málaga instead.

• Monday, February 25th 2019 - 09:12 UTC

  Bohemian Rhapsody’s Rami Malek playing Mercury, wins Best Actor Oscar

  

  Being neither a singer, dancer nor piano player, Rami Malek did months of research and took voice, movement, piano and guitar lessons in order to capture Mercury's accent, his strutting stage performances and the way he commanded a microphone.

• Wednesday, February 20th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  London's Craft Beer Festival is back with 155 breweries beginning 21 February

  

  From February 21st-23rd, the UK’s largest and most comprehensive beer festival, Craft Beer Rising, is back in east London. If 155 breweries and an array of delicious street food offerings weren’t enough, there will also be a world-class soundtrack from five of influential London radio station Soho Radio’s key hosts.

• Wednesday, February 20th 2019 - 08:51 UTC

  Fashion designer superstar Karl Lagerfeld dies in Paris aged 85

  

  Superstar fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has died, aged 85, in Paris following a short illness. The German designer, who was the creative director for Chanel and Fendi, was one of the industry's most prolific figures and worked up until his death.