Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Babylon

Streaming: Babylon and the best films about Hollywood

Damien Chazelle’s three-hour ode to Tinseltown debauchery joins classic films about Hollywood from Sunset Boulevard to Barton Fink and Adaptation

The Guardian - UK

After the Iraq War, Saddam’s legendary palaces are open to all

After the Iraq war, the closely guarded, lavish estates belonging to the former strongman were opened to the public.

Al Jazeera

Hollywood, memory and family: how The Fabelmans and Babylon both use music to evoke nostalgia

This year has seen the release of a varied collection of nostalgic films about film making. Damien Chazelle’s Babylon looks at the excesses of 1920s and 30s Hollywood; Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans explores the position of film in the director’s own childhood in the 1960s, and Sam Mendes’ Empire of…

The Conversation

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

‘Low blow’: Jimmy Kimmel draws criticism for ‘disrespectful’ diss about Babylon at the Oscars

Viewers at home criticised the ‘awful joke’

The Independent UK

Babylon review: Damien Chazelle’s debauched masterpiece has orgies, elephants, spanking and Margot Robbie

Tailor-made to divide audiences, this is the ‘La La Land’ director’s rocket-powered rebuke to claims he’s too sentimental

The Independent UK

Babylon, Elvis, Blonde, The Fabelmans — why can’t modern films evoke the Hollywood-era spirit?

Nothing better illustrates the unravelling of cinema’s transcendent role in our culture than that no one from within cinema, no matter how talented, is able to make a good movie about it.

Crikey

Diego Calva: the Babylon star on living with Margot Robbie and opening doors for Mexican actors in Hollywood

‘We used to think the Twenties was sanitised, but this was the wild, wild, wild west’

Evening Standard

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Review: Babylon

Hollywood swingers.

Reason

‘Babylon’ review: The glory and cruelty of Hollywood in the last days of silent pictures

As a cinematic study in risk and reward, the first four features from director Damien Chazelle just plain work, often dazzlingly. He knows how and when to move a camera. You know how rare that is these days? Steven Spielberg; Paul Thomas Anderson; a few others. And Chazelle.

Chicago Tribune

Babylon star Margot Robbie 'grabbed Brad Pitt for unscripted snog' in new movie

Barbie and Wolf of Wall Street star Margot Robbie says she grabbed the chance to kiss Brad Pitt in their new film Babylon which showcases the debauchery of 1920s Hollywood

Daily Mirror

Margot Robbie stuns with glam lookalike mother at Babylon premiere

The star showed the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree

Evening Standard

Babylon review: Damien Chazelle’s debauched masterpiece has orgies, elephants, spanking and Margot Robbie

Tailor-made to divide audiences, this is the ‘La La Land’ director’s rocket-powered rebuke to claims he’s too sentimental

The Independent UK

In Iraq's Babylon, age-old building techniques heal climate scars

At the temple of Ninmakh, the Sumerian mother goddess, Iraqi archaeologists are using 7,000-year-old techniques to protect the monument, and the rest of the ancient city of Babylon, from salt seeping into its heart and destroying it from within.

Reuters

Iranian Authorities Crackdown on Protests Marking 40 Days of Mourning for Amini

Marking 40 days since the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman who died in Tehran on Sept. 16 after being detained by Iran’s morality police, Iranians took to the streets nationwide in defiance of strict security measures by authorities. Fierce rallies returned with force to major Iranian cities…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The New Daily

‘I want to party forever’: Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt go wild in Hollywood blockbuster Babylon trailer

Australian actress Margot Robbie reunites with her Once Upon a Time co-star Brad Pitt for an ode to the Golden Age of Hollywood in Babylon

Asharq Al-Awsat

Some Iraqi Province Defy Govt Orders over Water Management

Governor of Iraq’s Babylon province appeared in a video last month as he ordered the opening of a water gate on the Euphrates River to meet the demand of local farmers. The move was a blatant act of defiance against the federal government that is responsible for the management of…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iraq: 9 Schoolteachers Among 11 Dead in Minibus Crash

Eleven people including nine schoolteachers died in a head-on road crash south of Baghdad as they returned from a Ramadan meal, Iraqi authorities said Saturday, blaming speed. The accident happened in Babylon province around midnight as the group was returning in a minibus from Karbala, a police source said, AFP…

The Guardian - UK

Iraq’s ancient buildings are being destroyed by climate change

Water shortages leading to rising salt concentrations and sandstorms are eroding world’s ancient sites

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

AFP

In a 'dangerous' land: tourists trickle back to Iraq

Hilla (Iraq) (AFP) - An American tourist poses for a holiday snap in Iraq, in front of the blue-brick Ishtar Gate that was rebuilt at the ancient site of Babylon under dictator Saddam Hussein.

The Guardian - UK

‘A brutalist hanging gardens of Babylon’ – the maddening, miraculous Barbican hits 40

Conceived as a utopian city within a city, the labyrinthine London landmark had a troubled path on its way to being hailed as an architectural icon. But is this world-class arts centre now in danger of being turned into a shopping mall?

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iraq Struggles to Make Use of Saddam’s Crumbling Palaces

Scattered across Iraq lie more than 100 opulent palaces and villas built by former dictator Saddam Hussein -- some in use, many in ruins like much of the war-scarred country. With their marble columns, ornate carvings and gaudy furniture, they reflected the megalomania and delusions of grandeur of Saddam, who…

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.