Walt Disney Co has come to the rescue of its loss-making subsidiary Euro Disney with a 1 billion-euro ($1.3 billion) funding deal announced on Monday, which could give the U.S. group total control over Europe’s biggest tourist attraction. The deal includes a rights issue and debt Continue Reading
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American singer Meghan Trainor was propelled to the number one spot in the British singles chart on Sunday by a surge in sales and online demand for her upbeat pop track “All about that Bass”, the Official Charts Company said. Trainor’s song was listened to more than 1 million times online, helping it dethrone “Bang Bang” by […]Continue Reading
Movie thriller “Gone Girl,” starring Ben Affleck as a man suspected of causing his wife’s disappearance, overcame a demonic doll named “Annabelle” to win a tight weekend race at U.S. and Canadian movie box offices. “Gone Girl” pulled in $38 million over its first three days in domestic theaters, according to estimates Continue Reading
Actor and comedian Steve Martin is the honoree for the 2014 Lifetime Achievement award from the American Film Institute, the organization said on Friday. Martin, 69, will receive the award recognizing his prolific career spanning four decades at a gala in June 2015, televised on Turner Broadcasting’s TNT. “Steve Martin is an American original,” said Continue Reading
Ashton Kutcher, the star of the hit television show “Two and a Half Men” and his partner, actress Mila Kunis, have named their baby daughter Wyatt Isabelle, the actor said on Friday. Kutcher, 36, posted the news on his website along with several pictures of babies asking viewers to guess which one was his daughter. “Mila […]Continue Reading
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) kept its key policy repo rate unchanged at 8.0 percent on Tuesday, as widely expected, while warning of risks to its target to bring consumer inflation down to 6 percent by January 2016. “This continues to warrant policy preparedness to contain pressures if the risks materialise,” the RBI said […]Continue Reading
Prime Minister Narendra Modi told nearly a dozen U.S. company chiefs on Monday that he is committed to liberalizing his country’s economy, which has underperformed other emerging markets recently after years of breakneck growth. Modi spoke at a breakfast with 11 chief executive officers during his first U.S. visit since coming came to power in May, vowing […]Continue Reading
In a glitzy show of lights, lasers and slogans, populist Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered a triumphal address to tens of thousands of Indian-Americans and U.S. dignitaries in New York on Sunday, less than a decade after he was barred from the United States over bloody sectarian riots. Speaking at Madison Square Garden, a venue […]Continue Reading
Instagram, the popular photo-sharing service owned by Facebook Inc, has been blocked in China, according to numerous reports, including from Hong Kong-based reporters with the New York Times. The company did not immediately return requests for confirmation. The reports came amid pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, where many have posted photos and videos, including of Continue Reading
Colombia needs to train more prosecutors to identify and investigate human trafficking cases, boost low conviction rates and tackle a problem that remains largely invisible, the country’s top watchdog said. Colombian adults and children are trafficked for sex outside and within the country, mainly in tourist cities along the Caribbean coast. It is also a […]Continue Reading



















