Entertainment

• Wednesday, May 30th 2018 - 09:07 UTC

  Chelsea owner Abramovich granted Israeli citizenship

  

  An Israeli official says Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich has received Israeli citizenship after his British visa was not renewed. The official, from Israel’s Immigration Ministry, said the Chelsea football club owner arrived in Israel on Monday. Israel grants automatic citizenship to anyone of Jewish descent.

• Wednesday, May 30th 2018 - 08:12 UTC

  French tycoon and head of defense group Dassault Group

  

  French entrepreneur and politician Serge Dassault has died at the age of 93, his family has said. Mr Dassault led the Dassault group after his father, Marcel's, death in 1986. The group has numerous firms in aeronautics and armaments and owns the French newspaper, Le Figaro.

• Monday, May 28th 2018 - 07:23 UTC

  Police protection for Liverpool's goalkeeper following death threats

  

  Liverpool Police says it is aware of death threats made to Liverpool goalkeeper Loris Karius after the Champions League final. Officers said any threatening behavior on social media would be investigated. The 24-year-old and his family were the subject of threats after his two mistakes helped Real Madrid to a 3-1 win

• Thursday, May 24th 2018 - 08:31 UTC

  Manchester United the most valuable European football club, says KPMG

  

  Manchester United has again been named most valuable European football club, being worth about €3.25bn (£2.9bn) says business services group KPMG. The English club tops KPMG's study of top sides' “enterprise value”, ahead of Real Madrid and Barcelona.

• Tuesday, May 22nd 2018 - 06:01 UTC

  Indian Navy all-women crew return to Goa after circumnavigating the globe aboard INSV Tarini

  

  An all-woman crew commanding the Indian Navy INSV Tarini on Monday returned to Goa after successfully circumnavigating the globe in a 55-foot sailboat in more than eight months, the first-ever Indian expedition steered by women sailors.

• Thursday, May 17th 2018 - 10:38 UTC

  “Gauchos in Malvinas”, part of Falklands' history is a collection of watercolors

  

  “Gauchos in Malvinas” is the title of the book launched at the recent Buenos Aires Book show which is mainly a collection of water colors by William Dale, painted in 1852 when he spent time in the Falkland Islands. He was the son of John Pownall Dale, at the time General Manager of the Falkland Islands Company, and his paintings are considered a unique and only testimony of the gauchos in the Falklands.

• Thursday, May 17th 2018 - 09:34 UTC

  Digital radio more popular than FM and AM in the UK

  

  Digital radio has become more popular than listening over FM and AM for the first time, according to new figures. Radio research body Rajar said 50.9% of all listening in the UK was digital in the first three months of the year.

• Thursday, May 17th 2018 - 09:04 UTC

  World Cup advice for Argentine media: “How to stand a chance with a Russian girl”

  

  The Argentine Football Association (AFA) has been criticized for including a chapter about “how to stand a chance with a Russian girl” in a manual it handed to journalists travelling to the World Cup in Russia. It recommended that journalists “look clean, smell nice and dress well” in order to impress Russian “girls”.

• Wednesday, May 16th 2018 - 07:20 UTC

  Indian Navy Tarini manned with six women expected in Goa next Monday 21 May

  

  In a few days, India's Navy INSV Tarini and the six women officers manning it, will arrive at Goa's shores, marking the successful completion of the first-ever circumnavigation by a crew of Indian women. One of its four calls was in the Falkland Islands.

• Friday, April 27th 2018 - 09:10 UTC

  Falklands will have a “wow” 54-seat cinema in a year's time

  

  It may be too soon to invest in a large bag of popcorn and to book a baby sitter, but cinema-going in the Falkland Islands' capital Stanley, which died out in the late seventies is set to begin again, hopefully, if all goes well by March or April 2019.