K-POP megastars BTS will release a memoir in South Korea and the United States in July, its US publisher said, triggering feverish excitement from the supergroup’s global fanbase. BTS has become a global cultural phenomenon, selling out stadiums and dominating charts around the world while raking in billions for South
FRENCH director Louis Leterrier was a regular fan of “The Fast and the Furious” when the multi-billion-dollar franchise started more than two decades ago. Now he is finishing it. “I was a fan, buying my ticket on the Champs Elysee in 2001, who became a director and now I’m ending
JOHNNY Depp’s comeback film is full of scandal both on-screen and off, as he tests out his French in the role of King Louis XV. There were rumours Depp only had a few minutes of screentime in “Jeanne du Barry”, which opens the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday and has
OSTEND (Belgium): Visitors to Belgium’s coast are having to get used to North Sea visitors not seen for a while — dozens of seals that are using the short sandy coastline as a resting place. The reason? During the long period of COVID restrictions between early 2020 and early 2022,
BANGKOK: Thai opposition leaders toured Bangkok in open-top jeeps on Saturday in a final-day bid to woo voters, urging them to turn out in force to oust the military-backed government. The kingdom goes to the polls on Sunday with voters tipped to issue a damning verdict on former coup leader
OSCAR-WINNING US actor Jamie Foxx is out of hospital and recuperating from an unspecified medical emergency, his daughter and publicist said on Friday. Last month, the 55-year-old Foxx was rushed to a medical facility in the state of Georgia, where he was filming a Netflix movie at the time. No
DRAYTON VALLEY (Canada): Canada struggled on Monday to control wildfires that have forced thousands to flee, halted oil production and razed towns, with the western province of Alberta calling for federal help. Some 30,000 people were ordered to leave their homes over the past three days, as nearly 100 fires
TOKYO: Hit games Splatoon 3 and the new Pokemon titles helped Nintendo beat its annual net profit forecast yesterday, but the company predicted tougher times ahead as its Switch console ages. The weak yen also inflated earnings for the Japanese gaming giant, which has recently seen huge success at the
SEOUL: Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was in Seoul Sunday for a landmark summit with South Korea’s president as the two countries seek to mend ties in the face of growing nuclear threats from Pyongyang. Kishida is making the first official bilateral visit by a Japanese leader to South Korea
HANOI: Vietnam has reported a record-high temperature, with climate experts warning such extreme weather events would continue. The country’s scientists have warned that global warming is exacerbating adverse weather, with the region sweltering under a heatwave in April — when neighbouring countries also registered record temperatures. A temperature of 44.1
