The long parade of women in glamorous gowns and expensive jewelry that starts in January at the Critics Choice, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards finally ends with the Oscars. The best looks, experts say, have been saved for last.Colorful gowns that show some skin and classical looks from Hollywood’s Golden Age will again [...]
Highlights of the end of the Olympics will be beamed to tens of thousands of ticket holders in Hyde Park on August 12 via giant screens.Joining Blur will be The Specials and New Order in a line-up being billed as Best of British.Tickets for the closing ceremony celebration concert go on sale on February 24 [...]
Fresh from her sweep of six Grammys in the United States, the 23-year-old Londoner is favorite to add at least two BRITs to her awards cabinet — best British female act and the coveted best album prize for 21.And few would be surprised to see her walk away with the best single honor for Someone [...]
The work is owned by Norwegian businessman Petter Olsen, whose father Thomas was a friend, neighbor and patron of Munch, the auctioneer said on Tuesday.Simon Shaw, senior vice president and head of Sotheby’s Impressionist – Modern Art department in New York, called the pastel-on-board creation one of the most important works of art in private [...]
Heavy summer rains, which meteorologists attribute to a series of low pressure systems that originated in the southern Atlantic Ocean this month, have wiped out crops in Peru and swollen rivers in northern Chile.Anti-personnel and anti-tank mines laid around Chile’s Lluta river watershed in the 1970s, when tensions ran high between the two countries, have [...]
The deal, negotiated last year, will lift the moratorium on oil and gas exploration and production for 1. million acres in the Gulf and sets up legal guidelines for companies to jointly develop any trans-boundary reservoirs.These reservoirs could hold considerable reserves … but they don’t necessarily stop neatly at our maritime boundary. This could [...]
Safe House finished ahead of love story The Vow from Friday through Monday, the U.S. Presidents’ Day holiday. The Vow rung up $26. million over the four days.Third place belonged to family film Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, which pulled in $26. million over the weekend.Safe House was released by Universal Pictures, a [...]
France banned in 2008 the growing of MON810 corn, the only GM crop approved for planting in the European Union, citing environmental risks.Its highest court ruled against the ban in November, following a similar decision by the European Court of Justice last September, leading the government to say it would look at all ways to [...]
A year after the landmark decision against Chevron, a panel working for The Hague’s Permanent Court of Arbitration told Ecuador last week to take all necessary measures to suspend enforcement of the award at home and abroad.But in a ruling made public on Monday, the court that has been considering the case in the remote [...]
Safe House took in $28. million at U.S. and Canadian theaters from Friday through Monday, according to studio estimates compiled by Reuters. That lifted the movie to No. 1 from its second-place finish when it opened a week earlier.The Vow, last weekend’s winner, slipped to second place with $26. million over the four [...]
