Culture

News Hour: Retired Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant was given the traditional golden sliming at the Kids Choice Sport awards on Thursday after picking up the “Legend” prize. The 37-year-old was presented with the award,...

News Hour: Finland on Friday auctioned off scores of vintage albeit ramshackle Soviet-era cars abandoned by asylum-seekers who used them to cross the country’s desolate Arctic border from Russia. Last year Finland’s 1,340 km-long (833-mile) frontier...

News Hour: Dog lovers and film buffs enjoyed a treat when a cinema invited owners to bring their pet pooches to a special screening of the film, “The Secret Life of Pets.” The event, arranged by...

News Hour: One man was gored in the leg and seven people treated for minor injuries in the seventh bull run in this year’s San Fermin festival in Spain, which featured fewer runners after overnight rain...

News Hour: If necessity is the mother of invention, eight years of a crippling recession and dwindling work prospects has compelled at least some Greeks to reboot, switch professions and innovate to survive. From the island...

News Hour: The unsolved investigation of the 1971 hijacking of a Seattle-bound airliner and the disappearance of the enigmatic, dapper suspect dubbed D.B. Cooper, is now officially one for the history books, not the FBI. The...

News Hour: US pop diva Jennifer Lopez and Broadway superstar Lin-Manuel Miranda on Monday put out a musical tribute to victims of the Orlando nightclub attack, with proceeds going to charity, reports BSS. “Love Make the...

News Hour: More than 7,500 classical musicians performed in a German football arena at the weekend to set the world record for the biggest-ever orchestra, reports BSS. Amateur groups and full orchestras from Germany as well...

News Hour: Several thousand cinema lovers joined top artists in Tehran on Sunday to bid farewell to renowned Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami following his death last week in Paris, Reports BSS. Kiarostami, who won the...

News Hour: A three-year-old elephant, grieving over the death of its mother following a fight with another animal on Wednesday,  refused to leave her body, forest officials said. A team of workers rushed to the site...