Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, along with American songwriter Bob Dylan, are the only two people to achieve literary and cinematic harmony: winning both the Nobel and the Oscar. Bernard Shaw won his Nobel for the screenplay Pygmalion, which was made into a movie and was credited with elevating Hollywood from illiteracy to literacy. Bernard […]
If one listens to commentary about Donald Trump – and there’s so much of it that banning the word ‘Trump’ would bankrupt WENA outlets – you would assume he was an anomaly in the system, the sum total of all unbalanced equations, antithetical to the American way of life. In recent times, his actions — […]
The joint, coordinated attack on Iran by the US and Israel eliminated the high-value target of Donald Trump’s Operation Epic Fury, killing Tehran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after the US president repeatedly called for “regime change” in the Islamic Republic. But whether that goal will now be realised remains uncertain. A Washington Post report […]
Iran President Pezeshkian vows revenge after Khamenei killed in US–Israel strikes (Picture credit: AP) Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has declared that avenging the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is both a “legitimate duty and right” of the Islamic Republic, following joint US–Israeli strikes that killed the 86-year-old leader.In a statement carried by state […]
Strikes in Iran (AP photo) With the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran launched attacks against the United States and Israel, hitting key US military bases in the region and targeting Israeli sites.Operation Epic Fury, the US-led military action under President Donald Trump, achieved its most critical objective: the killing of Khamenei in […]
(Image credits: X @NYCMayor) New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani met with President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday for a previously unannounced meeting that lasted about an hour, focusing on major new housing investments in the city while also addressing the arrest of a Columbia University student.After the meeting, Mamdani posted on […]
A 21‑year‑old North Carolina man who was shot and killed early on Sunday while attempting to enter the secure perimeter of former President Donald Trump’s Mar‑a‑Lago estate was known among friends and on social media for creating dark, moody watercolours and sketches of golf courses, according to the New York Post.The man was identified by […]
There’s a Hindustani proverb that states: Hammam mein sab nange hain. The phrase refers to public bathhouses common in Persian, Mughal, or Ottoman societies. The phrase’s literal translation is: In a bathhouse, everyone is naked. The idea is that there’s no point pretending behind a veil of hypocrisy because, when the judgement comes, we are […]
The director of the documentary about US President Donald Trump‘s wife, Melania, has been accused of sexual harassment and has also been mentioned in the infamous Epstein files.Brett Ratner, the Hollywood director chosen to lead the upcoming Melania documentary, has attracted controversy due to past sexual harassment claims and his appearance in recently released Jeffrey […]
Elon Musk, X chief, on Thursday took a dig at US President Donald Trump’s newly announced Board of Peace, drawing a similarity between “piece” or “peace.”He opened his session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, with a joke, saying “I heard about the formation of the peace summit, and I was like, is […]
