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Valentine’s Day is right around the corner and what better day for couples to celebrate their love for each other. The day of love falls on February 14 every year and is celebrated by different couples in their own unique way. The conventional celebration includes wearing the color red, which…

The largest Russian Orthodox cemetery outside Russia is in a suburb of Paris. This normally tranquil place has become a battleground between Russia and the West.

The Joffrey Ballet, ‘Les Mis’ and a full-on staging of “Trial in the Delta: The Murder of Emmett Till” are among the entertainment highlights in the week ahead.

Almost 400 civil claims filed in the past 12 years in Victoria for historical child sexual abuse

Actor James Norton has played Happy Valley villain Tommy Lee Royce since 2014 and is currently starring in the third series

A greatly moving hybrid film, the British entry “Living” is based on the 1952 film “Ikiru” by the Japanese master Akira Kurosawa, itself loosely based on Leo Tolstoy’s 1886 novella “The Death of Ivan Ilyich.” The Kurosawa film features a great Takashi Shimura (“Seven Samurai”) in the lead. “Living,” which…

It's almost time to bid 2022 farewell and greet 2023 with fresh zeal, passion, and positivity.

Not long into "Living," Mr. Williams learns that he has not long to live. The news doesn't come as a huge shock, but even if it did, you gather, nothing about this man — not his stiff posture, his calmly appraising gaze or his thin, flat line of a mouth…

Some comments on the thread about pronouncing foreign country names (such as Qatar and France) raised the question of how we should pronounce foreign people's names. Here too my answer is: We should follow the English norms, which often depart from the norms in those people's native languages—just like, I…

The title of "A Couple," Frederick Wiseman's new movie, is both intriguing and a little misleading. Intriguing because it doesn't make reference to a place, establishment or social issue, as you might expect by now from this 92-year-old master of the institution-centric documentary. And misleading because in the course of…

The Russian leader often evokes a philosopher who praised Mussolini, but analysts are divided on Putin’s own ideology.