Microsoft says “strategic espionage” by state-backed Russian hackers has targeted government agencies, think tanks, businesses and aid groups in 42 countries supporting Ukraine.

James Rado, co-creator of the groundbreaking hippie musical Hair, which celebrated protest, cannabis and free love and paved the way for the sound of rock on Broadway, has died. He was 90.

Film director Paul Haggis has appeared in court in southern Italy amid a police investigation into a woman’s allegations he had sex with her without her consent over the course of two days.

Jurors at a civil trial have found that Bill Cosby sexually abused a 16-year-old girl at the Playboy Mansion in 1975.

The maiden voyage of a cruise ship starring a boatload of musical theatre stars, including Tony Award-winners Laura Benanti, Kristin Chenoweth, Alan Cumming and Lena Hall, will set sail next spring.

Disney workers traded their character costumes for yoga pants and planked, did the downward dog and folded into lotus poses at Walt Disney World in Florida to celebrate International Yoga Day.

A visitor centre dedicated to telling the story of the LGBTQ rights movement will open next door to The Stonewall Inn in New York City, according to an announcement by the non-profit that will manage the centre in partnership with the National Park ...

Adnan Mohammed teaches Latin dance for an hour a week in a Damascus studio, helping his students at least briefly forget the troubles of war.

Kellogg Company, the maker of Frosted Flakes, Rice Krispies and Eggo, will split into three companies focused on cereals, snacks and plant-based foods.

When Syrian refugee Fadel Alkhudr arrived in Germany in 2015, the first thing he saw when he stepped out of the train in Cologne was the city’s majestic cathedral.

A settlement agreement has been reached on the eve of a second trial pitting the Kardashian family against former reality TV star Blac Chyna.

The world’s largest recorded freshwater fish, a giant stingray, has been caught in the Mekong River in Cambodia, according to scientists from the South East Asian nation and the United States.

Film director Paul Haggis is being held in a hotel room in southern Italy pending a court hearing while prosecutors press their investigation of a woman’s allegations he had sex with her without her consent over the course of two days.

Kosovo’s central government and authorities in the capital Pristina have joined forces to bring back home an international music festival founded by the father of singer-songwriter Dua Lipa which had been moved following a dispute with its ...

The Sunny Hill Festival made its debut in Kosovo’s capital Pristina in 2018 and took place again in 2019.

Film director Paul Haggis has been detained for the investigation of allegations he sexually assaulted a woman in south Italy, Italian news media said, quoting local prosecutors.

Apple declined to comment on the developmen

Vince McMahon is stepping down as chief executive and chairman of WWE during an investigation into alleged misconduct involving the long-time leader and public face of the organisation.

Malaysia’s film censors have said it was Disney’s decision to pull the animated film Lightyear from the country’s cinemas after refusing to cut scenes showing homosexuality.

In an unusual move for what has been an unusual takeover bid for Twitter by the world’s richest man, Tesla CEO Elon Musk met virtually with the social platform’s employees. “Trust is as trust does.

Revlon, the 90-year-old multinational cosmetics company, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, weighed down by rising debts, global supply chain disruptions and new rivals.

McDonald’s France and related companies have agreed to pay more than €1. 2 billion to the French state to settle a case in which the fast-food giant was accused of years of tax evasion.

Mo’Nique and Netflix have reportedly settled her lawsuit that accused the streaming service of racial and sexual discrimination for allegedly making her a lowball offer for a proposed comedy special.

Rapper Nipsey Hussle was gunned down outside his clothing shop in a calculated, premeditated fashion by a man upset over a discussion about snitching, a prosecutor told jurors at the opening of a long-delayed murder trial.

The suit alleged that some of the products produced by third parties but sold on Amazon contained mercury levels that were thousands of times the US federal legal limit

Dolly Parton is donating one million US dollars to paediatric infectious disease research at Vanderbilt University Medical Centre in Nashville.

The Federal Reserve has intensified its drive to tame high inflation by raising its key interest rate by three-quarters of a point — its largest hike in nearly three decades.

The European Central Bank (ECB) has vowed to create an unspecified market backstop that could be used to buffer some countries against bond market turmoil similar to what shook the 19-country eurozone during a debt crisis more than a decade ago.

Ikea has said it is seeking new owners for its four factories in Russia and will liquidate its product inventory in the country because of the war in Ukraine.

A man who was once briefly married to Britney Spears has been charged with stalking after showing up at the pop star’s wedding to her long-time boyfriend Sam Asghari.

The United Arab Emirates has banned Pixar’s Lightyear from showing in cinemas amid reports the film includes a kiss between two female characters.

The prices of petrol, food and most other goods and services in the US jumped in May, raising US inflation to a new four-decade high and giving American households no respite from rising costs.Consumer prices surged 8.6% last month from 12 months ...

Russia’s central bank cut interest rates back to their pre-war levels on Friday, saying inflation and economic activity were developing better than expected despite sweeping Western sanctions imposed in response to the war in Ukraine.

Sheryl Sandberg, the No 2 executive at Facebook owner Meta who helped turn its business from startup to digital advertising empire, is stepping down. Ms Sandberg has served as chief operating officer at the social media giant for 14 years.

The owner of an exotic animal breeding business in Florida has been sentenced to five years’ probation for illegally selling a capuchin monkey to singer Chris Brown.

The European Central Bank (ECB) said on Thursday that it would carry out its first interest rate increase in 11 years next month, followed by another hike in September.

Bill Cosby has denied sexual abusing a teenager at the Playboy Mansion in the mid-1970s at a civil trial in Los Angeles. At the end of the sixth day in the lawsuit, the 84-year-old actor and comedian was heard from for the first time.

Twitter declined to confirm the reports and pointed to a Monday statement in which the company said it is continuing to “cooperatively” share information with Mr Musk.

The European Parliament has thrown its weight behind a proposed ban on selling new cars with combustion engines in 2035, seeking to step up the fight against climate change through the faster development of electric vehicles.

Nasa will launch a research rocket from remote northern Australia this month in the agency’s first blast-off from a commercial space port outside the United States.

The widow and son of the man who wrote the 1983 article that inspired the original Top Gun movie are suing Paramount Pictures over its sequel, Top Gun: Maverick.

Accuses the company of refusing to give him information about its spam bot accounts

An Australian court has ordered Google to pay a former politician AU$715,000 Australian dollars (€482,093) over two defamatory YouTube videos.

Jacob Hoggard, the frontman for the Canadian band Hedley, has been convicted of sexual assault causing bodily harm to an Ottawa woman but acquitted of the same charge involving a teenage fan.