Culture

News Hour: London’s Somerset House is hosting the European premiere of “Bjork Digital,” an immersive exhibition of digital and video works produced by the famous Icelandic singer and a team of visual artists and programmers. Visitors...

News Hour: The right mood music can influence how well people work together, a new management-oriented study suggests. Many retail establishments carefully select the music they play in order to influence consumer behavior, such as encouraging...

News Hour: If you give an auteur a commercial, don’t be surprised when he or she goes off the wall. In this case, Spike Jonze has done that quite literally. His latest commercial, for the Japanese...

News Hour: For generations, artisans and merchants in Japan’s ancient capital of Kyoto lived in thousands of traditional “machiya” townhouses that are steadily disappearing or falling into disrepair. To help restore the wooden-and-tile-roof structures, banks in...

News Hour: Lucy, one of the best known ancestors of humans to ever roam the earth, may have died after a fall from a tree, University of Texas researchers said on Monday after studying her 3.18-million-year-old...

News Hour: Predominately Buddhist Thailand has opened its first halal hotel as hopes to attract more Muslim visitors and boost one of the few bright spots in its economy. Nearly 30 million foreign tourists came to...

News Hour: A freak lightning storm has killed 323 reindeer in a remote mountainous area of Norway, officials said on Monday. Dead animals were found lying on top of each other, many with their antlers entangled,...

News Hour: Residents of the Umbrian town of Perugia gathered on Sunday (August 28) evening in the main square to eat pasta all’Amatriciana in support of the earthquake victims from neighboring communities. At least 290 people died in...

News Hour: Nicole Kidman, Penelope Cruz and Lupita Nyong’o have posed for the 2017 Pirelli Calendar, which features a host of Hollywood’s biggest names. The likes of Uma Thurman, Kate Winslet and ‘House of Cards’ actress...

News Hour: Self-acceptance is defined as “an individual’s acceptance of all of his/her attributes, positive or negative.” It includes body acceptance, self-protection from negative criticism, and believing in one’s capacities. Many people have low self-acceptance. There...