2021-01-29 19:40:00
Actress Cicely Tyson, who specialised in portraying strong Black women caught up in life’s struggles during a 60-year career that earned her three Emmy Awards and a Tony Award, died on Thursday at age 96, her manager said in a statement...
2021-01-29 16:18:00
Veteran writer Dominic Jeeva, who played a pioneering role in enriching Sri Lankan Tamil literature as well as introducing Sinhala literature to Tamil readers, has passed away yesterday (28). Born in 1927, he was 94 years old at the time of his death...
2021-01-23 16:22:00
Adele has reached a divorce settlement with her ex-husband Simon Konecki nearly two years after they separated...
2021-01-02 19:10:00
Wham’s Last Christmas has finally topped the UK charts - 36 years after its release...
2020-12-30 16:55:00
Cardin, who upended fashion styles in 1960s and 70s with futuristic looks, dies in hospital near Paris..
2020-12-26 15:01:00
Acting legends Sean Connery and Kirk Douglas, sports stars Jack Charlton and Diego Maradona, forces’ sweetheart Vera Lynn, Black Panther hero Chadwick Boseman and TV presenter Caroline Flack - we have said goodbye to many famous faces in 2020...
2020-12-26 14:45:00
You know who you are, thank you for my friends, both old and new, that I love and love me back. Those that have stayed in touch and that have touched my heart...
2020-12-19 14:11:00
A nine-year-old boy has made nearly $30m in a year from “unboxing” and reviewing toys and games on YouTube to hold the title of highest-paid YouTuber for the third year running...
2020-12-18 19:40:00
Actor Jeremy Bulloch, who played Boba Fett in the original Star Wars trilogy, has died aged 75...
2020-12-14 13:28:00
British espionage writer John le Carré has died aged 89, following a short illness, his literary agent has said...
2020-12-08 19:53:00
My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.”..
2020-11-25 20:55:00
Penguin Random House announced on Tuesday that former President Obama’s memoir ’’A Promised Land’’ had sold more than 1.7 million copies in its first week...
2020-11-11 19:02:00
What is the conservatorship and why was it set up?..
2020-11-07 10:08:00
Johnny Depp has left the Fantastic Beasts film franchise, days after losing a libel case over a newspaper article which called him a wife beater...
2020-11-02 16:25:00
Pirates Of The Caribbean star Johnny Depp was unable to convince the High Court he was not violent towards ex-wife Amber Heard...
2020-10-31 18:54:00
Sir Sean Connery has died at the age of 90, his family has said...
2020-10-30 14:37:00
Canada has picked Deepa Mehta’s Funny Boy, an adaptation of Shyam Selvadurai’s coming-of-age novel of the same name, to represent the country in the 2021 Oscar race in the international feature category...
2020-10-20 13:02:00
Arundhati Roy’s literary career has been one of a kind. Thrust into the limelight of the global publishing industry back in 1997 when her debut novel, The God of Small Things, won an advance of half a million pounds and then the Booker prize, she might have gone on to become a household name of cosmopolitan novel writing in the way that Salman Rushdie and Kazuo Ishiguro had in the decades before...
2020-10-17 20:29:00
Vijay Sethupathi agreeing to play Sri Lankan spin legend Muttiah Muralitharan in the biopic 800 has caused a political uproar in Tamil Nadu...
2020-10-11 10:23:00
The lines reflect on the deep anguish that a widow suffers and what goes in her mind when she has to deal with the irreparable loss in her life...
2020-10-08 23:21:00
Louise Glück has won the 2020 Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Academy announced Thursday. The judges cited “her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.”..
2020-10-07 13:37:00
we, LNW, decided to have a friendly chat with GaaPiNk...
2020-10-04 17:25:00
This week’s disastrous presidential debate was spoofed by Saturday Night Live as NBC’s comedy variety show returned for its 46th season, with Alec Baldwin reprising his role as President Trump and Jim Carrey debuting as Joe Biden...
2020-09-30 20:36:00
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa paid final respects to veteran actor Tennisan Cooray, who passed away on September 28...
2020-09-28 12:52:00
Veteran Actor, Theatre Performer and Comedian Tennisan Cooray has passed away, at the age of 68...
2020-09-22 18:54:00
Ellen DeGeneres has opened the new series of her talk show with an apology and an admission that ’’things happened here that never should have happened’’...
2020-09-22 17:48:00
IT is the most secretive reunion in pop history – but the return of ABBA is one step closer...
2020-09-18 06:30:00
GaaPiNk is a Sri Lankan queer artist and an activist outspeaking for the rights of the LGBTIQ community. They break the barriers of gender by expressing themselves in a fluid spectrum, reminiscing the beauty of diversity, thereby giving breath to the dying Queer Culture of Sri Lanka...
2020-09-11 18:53:00
Tributes are being paid to ’’icon’’ Dame Diana Rigg, a Bond actress and star of The Avengers and Game Of Thrones, who has died at the age of 82...
2020-09-09 21:26:00
Sri Lankan fashion designer Amesh Wijesekera has become known for his colorful designs that combine local handwoven textiles with deadstock fabric to create distinctive pieces...
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