Culture

News Hour: A pair of game-worn Michael Jordan sneakers sold at auction for $190,373 on Sunday, setting a record for game-used shoes. The Converse shoes were said to be used by the NBA legend in the...

News Hour: The trailer for “Black Panther” has finally arrived and, by the looks of it, this Marvel world will take us on one helluva ride. In the nearly two-minute teaser, Chadwick Boseman reprises his role...

News Hour: Adam West, who earned a place in American pop culture history with his campy portrayal of the title character in the classic 1960s TV series “Batman,” has died at age 88, his family said...

News Hour: Taylor Swift got back together with Spotify on Friday, returning her music to streaming services almost three years after complaining publicly they did not pay artists enough, and on the same day rival Katy...

News Hour: With large murals of black cats and colorful gurning faces, a group of traveling international artists are bringing a splash of colorful street art to towns in Israel and Jordan. The eye-catching works, including...

News Hour: China’s cyberspace authorities have ordered internet companies to close 60 popular celebrity gossip social media accounts in the latest in a series of crackdowns on independent media. Website operators from some of China’s biggest...

News Hour: American rockers Aerosmith said they would put aside security concerns following the Manchester bombing to headline the Download Festival in England on Sunday, insisting the show must go on. The Grammy award-winning Boston band...

News Hour: A top South Korean cinema chain said Thursday it would not screen a Netflix-backed blockbuster if the US streaming giant insists on releasing the film online simultaneously. The movie, “Okja,” directed by South Korean...

News Hour: Thousands of nominations flooded in for the fifth annual British Indian Awards over the past months and the full list of finalists has now been compiled. Based on a vote by the British public,...

News Hour: The month of Ramadan is a time of peak TV consumption in the Arab world, and in turn, peak TV ad budgets. So the Kuwaiti telecom company Zain decided to make to the most of the...