October2022

Lana Rhoades, a former porn star, is criticizing the field that helped launch her career and calling for its “illegal” status. Between 2016 and 2017, Rhoades—real name Amara Maple—worked in the industry for eight months, making...

Tim Stokely, the creator of content subscription service OnlyFans, has made an undisclosed investment in fitness dating app FITFCK. According to FITFCK, the founder of OnlyFans invested, valuing the company at more than £3 million. Jamie...

Five years to the day after the MeToo movement forced Hollywood into a reckoning, a former writer and producer of the well-known US comedy series “Scrubs” was charged on Wednesday with several charges of sexual assault....

The Nobel Literature Prize was given to French novelist Annie Ernaux on Thursday. Annie Ernaux is renowned for her deceptively straightforward books that draw on personal experience of class and gender. The committee cited Ernaux, 82,...

Beset with Sri Lanka’s economic crisis, Pakistan’s catastrophic floods, a global slowdown, and the impacts of the war in Ukraine, South Asia faces an unprecedented combination of shocks on top of the lingering scars of the...

The resurgence of cholera in violence-stricken Haiti after three years without a single reported case threatens the well-being and health of 1.2 million children living in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, UNICEF warned. As the country grapples with...

Loretta Lynn, America’s groundbreaking country titan whose frank lyricism delving into women’s experiences with sex, infidelity and pregnancy touched the nerve of a nation, has died. She was 90 years old. She “passed peacefully in her...

Elon Musk on Tuesday offered to push through with his buyout of Twitter at the original agreed price, as a trial over his efforts to withdraw from the deal loomed. The world’s richest man said in...

New vehicle deliveries by Tesla increased in the third quarter, beating the previous three months during which its Chinese factory was shuttered for multiple weeks, the US electric automaker announced on Sunday. Between July and September,...

Tokyo stocks opened lower on Monday, extending falls on Wall Street, where fears grew that monetary tightening could lead to a global recession. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index was down 0.89 percent, or 231.30 points, at...