Culture

News Hour: Pop superstar Janet Jackson gave birth to her first child at age 50 on Tuesday, her spokesperson said Tuesday. Jackson and her husband Wissam Al Mana, a Qatari businessman, welcomed their son Eissa into...

News Hour: It’s an all-too-familiar Hollywood story: the out-of-work actor eking out an existence in cheap housing, earning minimum wage delivering pizzas, desperate for his big break. But for Jay Abdo one of the Arab world’s...

News Hour: Hollywood stars Tom Hanks and Nicole Kidman were among the actors honored at the Palm Springs International Film Festival on Monday night as the 2017 awards season began. Oscar winner Hanks received the “Icon...

News Hour: Swapna Das’ debut book “A String of Pearls” was published in July 2016 in the UK. The book is a collection of eleven delightful short stories spanning many continents. In her first book “A...

News Hour: The R&B star is launching an academy through his “Akon Lighting Africa” initiative, which will use the power of the sun to hopefully provide 600 million African people with electricity. Opening in Mali’s capital...

News Hour: The ‘Sherlock’ star was found to be a distant cousin of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who originally created the famed detective over a century ago. Genealogy detectives have discovered that Benedict Cumberbatch, the British...

News Hour: Olympic athlete Mo Farah, tennis star Andy Murray, actor Mark Rylance, comedian Ken Dodd and Kinks musician Ray Davies have been knighted in Queen Elizabeth’s New Year’s Honors List. Spice Girl and designer Victoria...

News Hour: Hrithik Roshan starrer Kaabil is under a month away for its release and the film is creating headlines with each passing day. Directed by Sanjay Gupta and produced by Rakesh Roshan, the film is...

News Hour: “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” and “Sing” loomed large at the multiplexes over the New Year’s holiday, racking up the biggest grosses and ringing out 2016 on a high note, reports Reuters. The...

News Hour: The famed Hollywood sign high in the hills over Los Angeles got a little higher on Sunday, when someone altered two of its letters to make it read “Hollyweed.” Police said unidentified thrill-seekers had...