Category: Entertainment

Vietnamese pop star Duc Phuc, who won this year’s Intervision song contest in Moscow on Saturday, has announced plans to donate part of his 30-million-ruble prize (around $358,000) money to Russian charity. The Hanoi-born artist won the Vietnamese version of The Voice in 2015 and has since released many hits in his home country, where…

Russian figure skaters Adeliia Petrosian and Petr Gumennik have won the qualifiers for the 2026 Winter Olympic Games after standout performances in China on Sunday. Both are set to compete as neutral athletes in next year’s Games in Italy due to ongoing Ukraine-related sanctions against Russia. Gumennik racked up 262.82 points to capture the men’s…

Think ‘Sesame Street’ but with death, depression, and existential dread. At first glance, it looks like any other children’s cartoon: Round, brightly colored animals teaching kids to share, be polite, and cross the street safely. But Russia’s most beloved animated series, ‘Smeshariki’ – released internationally as ‘KikoRiki’ and in the US as ‘GoGoRiki’ or ‘BalloonToons’…

US streaming giant Netflix has lost about $15 billion in market value after billionaire Elon Musk accused the platform of “woke bias” and urged his followers to cancel subscriptions. Netflix shares fell 4.3% in a day and a half to $1,140 by midday Thursday, cutting its market cap to $483 billion from $498 billion on…

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has been telling users that its owner is smarter and more physically fit than anyone in the world, according to media reports. Many of the posts were later deleted, renewing questions about the bot’s objectivity. Musk’s social network X on Thursday was reportedly flooded with examples of Grok praising the…

US hip hop mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has been sentenced to four years and two months in prison for transporting former girlfriends to engage in prostitution. The Bad Boy Records founder was also fined $500,000. Combs’ former partners, singer Cassie Ventura and a woman identified in court as Jane, testified that he abused them and…

The man who claims his appearance as a naked baby on the cover of Nirvana’s iconic album ‘Nevermind’ was child pornography has lost another lawsuit against the band. ’Nevermind’, Nirvana’s most successful album, was released in 1991; it included the hit song ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ and sold over 30 million copies worldwide. Its cover…

Filmmaker Zelda Williams has condemned the continued circulation of AI-generated videos of her father, the late actor and comedian Robin Williams, in a strongly worded post shared on Instagram. Robin Williams, known for his roles in ‘Dead Poets Society’, ‘Good Morning Vietnam’, and ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’, died by suicide in 2014 at the age of 63….

American actress Diane Keaton has died at the age of 79, a family spokesperson confirmed to People magazine. She passed away in California but the cause of death has not been made public, and her family her family has requested privacy, according to the magazine. Keaton was best known for her roles in ‘Father of…

In Russian culture, fear has never been just an emotion – it’s a way of making sense of the world. Where Western horror often pits the individual against some invading evil – the ghost, the vampire, the creature in the dark – Russian horror sees evil as something earned, deserved, or even necessary. The monster…