Culture

News Hour: Emma Watson says making her new movie “The Circle,” about a fictitious social media giant, had been a tough and vulnerable experience that brought home issues of ethics and the boundaries of privacy in...

News Hour: American singer Richard Marx is going to perform in a concert in Dhaka, Bangladesh on May 16th, 2017 at Bangabandhu International Conference Center. Creinse is organizing the concert. Richard Marx is a singer, songwriter, musician and record...

News Hour: Kasem bin Abubakar was told nobody would buy his chaste romance novels about devout young Muslims finding love within the strict moral confines of Bangladeshi society. And yet his tales of lovers whispering sweet...

News Hour: An appeals board of India’s film censor authority has cleared an award-winning Hindi language film for limited release. Lipstick Under My Burkha was earlier refused certification because it was too “lady oriented” and contained...

News Hour: Actor Orlando Bloom said his latest film about a fictional biological attack threatening London “could absolutely happen” in the real world and that the increasingly topical subject of terrorism is handled sensitively. “Unlocked,” out...

News Hour: Elton John spent two nights in intensive care with a potentially deadly bacterial infection and has canceled all his concerts for the rest of April and May, his publicist said on Monday. The British...

News Hour: Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks, who plays a Silicon Valley tycoon in the new film “The Circle” about a powerful social media company, teased Twitter Inc Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey on Monday that he...

News Hour: People all round the world can and should do more than simply wait for April 24 Each and every one of us who didn’t have a loved one killed or injured at Rana Plaza,...

News Hour: Britain’s Atom has hired pop star will.i.am as a strategic adviser to its board as the app-based bank seeks to grow. Atom is the latest foray into digital technology for the rapper-turned-entrepreneur who has...

News Hour: The number of Chinese and Russian visitors to Dubai surged in the first three months of the year, boosted by the United Arab Emirates’ recent decision to grant visas on arrival to citizens of...