Culture

News Hour: Entrepreneurs have high hopes for cannabis in Switzerland, where business has suddenly taken off in recent months, six years after the country legalized low-potency “marijuana-light”. Switzerland changed its laws in 2011 to let adults...

News Hour: On a desert track in eastern Egypt camels race across the sand, urged on by their young jockeys and a convoy of cars speeding alongside them. The race is part of an annual camel...

News Hour: Last time she ran 40 marathons in a row, Mina Guli wore out eight pairs of shoes. Now she is trying it a second time. The 46-year-old Australian set off on Wednesday morning in...

News Hour: Spice Girl Melanie ‘Mel B’ Brown filed for divorce from her husband after nearly 10 years of marriage, citing irreconcilable differences. Court papers filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday show that British...

News Hour: Walt Disney was sued on Tuesday by a longtime Hollywood screenwriter and producer who accused the studio of copying its blockbuster, Oscar-winning animated film “Zootopia” from his work without permission. Gary Goldman, whose credits...

News Hour: Eight decades after “Flash Gordon” hinted that aliens might not have our best interests at heart, mankind still risks destruction in the movies to make contact with extraterrestrial life. From Frederick Stephani’s 1936 big...

News Hour: “Sesame Street” has often experimented with new ways of teaching children about social issues as well as their ABCs since its launch nearly 50 years ago. Now it’s taking on a new challenge: autism....

News Hour: Two things stand out immediately about British actress, filmmaker and rising star Alice Lowe that make her an unusual subject in the rarified but often pretentious world of celebrity interviewing. The first is the...

News Hour: American DJ duo The Chainsmokers want their music to ”connect with people on a real level”. For that goal they gear up to release their debut studio album ‘Memories: Do Not Open’ next month....

News Hour: A 59.60-carat diamond known as “The Pink Star” is returning to auction next month and could fetch a record $60 million, three years since it was sold for even more – only for the...