This is Beirut 15/04 20:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
New York Harvey Weinstein Cinema MeToo
Women around the world have their eyes on New York, where, shortly after 9:30 a.m. local time, the retrial of the disgraced Hollywood producer officially began. Five years after his initial conviction—which was overturned in April 2024 by the New York Court of Appeals—Weinstein is once again facing justice. The decision to vacate his previous ...
Bélinda Ibrahim 15/04 18:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Abu Dhabi Festival Japan Kuniko Kato Music Bach
Abu Dhabi, Blue Hall, The Arts Center, April 14, 2025 Beneath the sleek arches of this hall nestled in the heart of the NYU Abu Dhabi campus, the 22nd edition of the Abu Dhabi Festival offered more than just a concert that evening. The event opened on a deeply cultural and symbolic note, where music became a bridge between civilizations—echoing ...
This is Beirut 15/04 15:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Culture Art Peru Mario Vargas Llosa Writer
The Peruvian flag flew at half-staff Monday as the South American country marked the passing of literary great Mario Vargas Llosa with a day of national mourning. Tributes poured in from around the world as President Dina Boluarte attended a private wake at the Vargas Llosa family home for the novelist and Nobel laureate, who died there Sunday ...
This is Beirut 15/04 10:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
USA Singer Katy Perry Space Culture
Pop star Katy Perry became the biggest name in an all-woman group to safely blast off into space Monday, roaring into the cosmos on one of billionaire Jeff Bezos's rockets. The Firework and California Girls singer was lofted more than 60 miles (100 kilometers) above the Earth's surface in a vessel from Blue Origin, the space company owned by ...
This is Beirut 14/04 17:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Vatican Architecture Gaudi God's architect Pope Culture
The Catholic Church has put Antoni Gaudi, the designer of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia basilica nicknamed "God's architect", on the path to sainthood, the Vatican said Monday. Pope Francis recognized the Catalan architect's "heroic virtues" and authorized a decree declaring him "venerable", the Vatican said in a statement. This acknowledgement ...
This is Beirut 14/04 14:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Under the patronage of the Ministries of Information and Economy and Trade, and in the presence of distinguished officials, including the Director General of the Ministry of Economy, Dr. Mohammad Abou Haidar, the President of the Beirut Order of Physicians, Dr. Youssef Bakhache, several heads of health professions unions and the Health Order ...
This is Beirut 14/04 14:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A Minecraft Movie easily held on to the top spot in North American theaters this weekend with estimated ticket sales of a solid $80.6 million, analysts said Sunday. That was roughly half the total of its huge opening last weekend. But with $281 million in domestic ticket sales to date, along with $269 million internationally, Minecraft has set ...
Madeleine Cadoux 14/04 13:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Nobel Prize Mario Vargas Llosa literature France Peru
Born in 1936 in Arequipa, Peru, Vargas Llosa left his homeland in the 1950s, believing that true literary ambition could only flourish elsewhere. He arrived in Paris in 1959 at the age of 23 with his first wife, Julia Urquidi, who would later inspire Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter. He found a city pulsing with intellectual energy—where Sartre ...
This is Beirut 14/04 10:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Osaka Japan Expo 2025 Exhibition Art Culture
A multi-eyed mascot, a vast wooden Grand Ring, 160 countries and regions strutting their stuff, and robots and sushi galore: Expo 2025 began on Sunday in Osaka, Japan. The World Expo is held every five years in different global locations. Here are five things to know about this event, which runs until mid-October. Grand Ring Encircling dozens of ...
This is Beirut 13/04 14:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Disney Premiere Paris Disneyland Culture Art
Disneyland Paris will open to the public on May 15 the newly redesigned “World Premiere,” a fully reimagined building and the first step in the massive renovation of its second park, Walt Disney Studios, which is set to double in size. The American group The Walt Disney Company announced in 2018 a large-scale expansion and transformation plan ...
Amine Jules Iskandar 13/04 11:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
The Maronite mummies were discovered in the Qadisha Valley on July 13, 1990, by a team of speleologists from the Group for Subterranean Studies and Researches of Lebanon (GERSL). The team included Pierre Abi Aoun, Fadi Baroudi, Antoine Ghaouch and Paul Khawaja. After two years of exploration and excavation in the Assi cave, located in the Hadat ...
This is Beirut 13/04 10:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Britain France Cartier Jewellery Exhibition Culture
A spellbinding exhibition of Cartier jewels, many never seen before in public, is opening in London tracing the history of the luxury French design house beloved by the rich and famous, from Queen Elizabeth II to Rihanna. For the first time in three decades, the V&A museum is showing a retrospective of some of Cartier's most iconic ...