The 78th Primetime Emmy Awards are underway at Los Angeles’ Peacock Theater, with HBO Max’s The Pitt and Hacks entering the night as the dominant contenders after leading the 2026 nominations. The Pitt enters with 25 nominations, the highest total of the year, after winning Outstanding Drama Series at the 2025 ceremony, while Noah Wyle […]
More than two weeks after the US Justice Department flung open the vault on another mountain of files tied to Jeffrey Epstein, the aftershocks are still rippling — though not evenly on both sides of the Atlantic. The latest tranche — a staggering cache of more than three million emails, memos and images — sketches […]
Several people were affected after department of justice released Epstein files and the new person added to the list is Casey Wasserman, a leading Hollywood talent agent whose clients include Chappell Roan, Coldplay, Ed Sheeran and Kendrick Lamar. Wasserman said late on Friday he was selling his business after communications with Ghislaine Maxwell were exposed […]
UAE devotees gear up for Ramadan 2026 / Image: File As the moon-sighting committee prepares to look skyward, there is a palpable shift in the UAE’s atmosphere. This year, the Holy Month is expected to begin on Thursday, February 19, 2026, bringing with it a rare “winter Ramadan” experience. For devotees, this timing is a […]
Dubai lights up New Year’s Eve 2026 with 48 fireworks shows across 40 locations/Representative Image Dubai is preparing to welcome 2026 with a spectacle like never before. On 31 December, the city will sparkle with 48 fireworks displays across 40 locations, surpassing last year’s 36 shows. From iconic skyscrapers to waterfronts and sprawling landmarks, the […]
This year’s list of Wikipedia’s most-read pages is a careful blend of politics, pop culture, sports and even a high-profile assassination. From major world figures to breakout entertainers—and even a decades-old serial killer—readers flocked to the OG site in huge numbers to keep up with fast-moving news, global events, and cultural moments. Here’s how the […]
Saturday Night Live opened its latest episode with a noisy and fast-moving sketch that showed James Austin Johnson as Donald Trump riffing through a long, off-topic monologue after a man fainted inside the Oval Office.The cold open imagined Trump holding a meeting with pharmaceutical executives to talk about lowering the prices of GLP-1 medications. The […]
US President Donald Trump and Denmark PM Frederiksen (File photo) Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Monday strongly rejected US President Donald Trump’s renewed claims about Greenland, the autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark.Frederiksen dismissed Trump’s repetitive assertions that the US “needs” Greenland for “security reasons”, calling it an “unacceptable pleasure.” Speaking to a […]
Welcome to the Island Where Egrets Rule A century after wildlife wardens began protecting a small island in Texas, the 35-acre site has become the world’s largest nesting colony for Reddish Egrets. Green Island sits in the Laguna Madre, a coastal lagoon in southern Texas. In 1923, Audubon Texas signed its first sanctuary lease with […]
Thousands of Emiratis unite at Al Wathba on December 4 for the Union March, celebrating heritage, culture, and national pride / Image Credit: Emirati Times Drums, chants, and fluttering flags will soon fill the air at Al Wathba as thousands of Emiratis unite for the UAE’s grand Union March 2025 on December 4 — a […]
