LOS ANGELES: Legendary Hollywood eatery Musso & Frank Grill prides itself on treating regulars like celebrities and celebrities like regulars — but made an exception when Quentin Tarantino came asking for a favor. The “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” director wanted the restaurant sealed off for five days to shoot his homage to Tinseltown, which begins with Leonardo DiCaprio, …

LOS ANGELES: The Los Angeles Police Department said Friday it plans to step up its visibility around movie theaters for the opening of “Joker” because of heightened fears over the film´s content. A police spokeswoman told AFP that while there have been no credible threats in the Los Angeles area, “the department will maintain high visibility around movie theaters when …

Only days ago, Hollywood heartthrob Brad Pitt was in the spotlight when he opened up about his much-talked about split with former wife Angelina Jolie. But the ‘Ad Astra’ star is back in the news—this time about a rumoured relationship with a holistic healer. Brad Pitt is currently on a high with Oscar buzz surrounding two of his movies – …

TV actor Komal Aziz Khan has joined  thousands of people online who have demanded justice over mysterious  death of Nimrita Kumari, a student of a  medical college in Larkana. The “Bharosa Tera Pyar” actor used her Instagram stories to share the picture of the deceased with a hashtag #JusticforNimritaKumari. In another Insta story earlier this week, the TV star had …

PARIS: When global warming swallows up the postage stamp island of Warraber, forcing its 300 residents to find a new home, “it will not just be the loss of our land, but also a piece of us that is washed away,” says Kabay Tamu. Tamu, 28, is likely to see that traumatic transition during his lifetime, according to a landmark …

UNITED NATIONS: China´s foreign minister warned Friday that protectionism could trigger a world recession as he vowed to stand firm in a trade row with the United States. “The lessons of the Great Depression should not be forgotten,” Wang Yi told the United Nations General Assembly in New York. “Tariffs and provocation of trade disputes, which upset global industrial and …

DIVACA: In Slovenia´s dramatically beautiful Karst region, six astronauts have been put through their paces for future missions — not in a flashy futuristic space centre but deep underground in the area´s network of cold, dark and muddy caves. This Wednesday they emerged blinking into the light after swapping their space suits for caving gear and spending six full days …

UNITED NATIONS: Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Friday urged greater international control of sanctions, criticizing US attempts to force all countries to stop doing business with Iran. “We do not know under what laws sanctions are applied. It appears to be the privilege of the rich and the powerful,” the outspoken 94-year-old leader said in an address to the …

WASHINGTON: Democrats charged aggressively into an impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump on Friday, ordering Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to turn over Ukraine-related documents and scheduling testimony for witnesses to alleged abuse of power by the US leader. Three House committees gave Pompeo one week to produce the documents, saying multiple State Department officials have direct knowledge of Trump´s …

New Delhi: At least 44 people were killed and thousands moved to relief camps because of flooding caused by torrential rains in northern India´s Uttar Pradesh state, officials told AFP Saturday. Densely populated regions on the banks of two main rivers in the state, which are overflowing because of incessant rainfall in the last 24-48 hours, are among the worst …