By Sonia Moghe, CNN Amber Heard finished testifying on direct examination in the $50 million defamation case with ex-husband Johnny Depp on Monday, following a week-long break in proceedings. Depp’s attorneys began cross-examination of Heard on Monday afternoon. Depp has accused Heard of defaming him in a 2018 op-ed for the Washington Post. In the
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By Amarachi Orie, CNN David Tennant and Catherine Tate are returning to “Doctor Who,” the BBC has confirmed. The 10th Doctor and his companion, Donna Noble, are filming scenes that are due to air in 2023 to coincide with the show’s 60th anniversary celebrations, the broadcaster said in a statement Sunday. The announcement comes a
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Marcel Krueger, CNN Suspension railways today seem like an anachronism — a 19th-century vision of what the future of transport would look like. By the year 2022, surely we would all be commuting to work on upside down railways! Unlike boring ordinary train lines that stay determinedly fixed to terra firma, suspension railways dangle beneath
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Toyin Owoseje, CNN Man Ray’s famed “Le Violon d’Ingres” made history Saturday when it became the most expensive photograph ever to sell at auction. The black and white image, taken in 1924 by the American surrealist artist, transforms a woman’s naked body into a violin by overlaying the picture of her back with f-holes. The
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By Chloe Melas, CNN Travis Scott returned to center stage at the Billboard Music Awards on Sunday. Scott performed two songs, “Mafia” and “Lost Forever,” after being introduced by Sean “Diddy” Combs and French Montana. It was Scott’s first major public performance since a crowd surge killed ten people and injured thousands at his Astroworld
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN As more and more countries reopen their borders to eager tourists, a trendy new phrase has emerged on social media: revenge travel. The term has been used to describe trips as varied as family reunions, big splurge vacations and re-visits to favorite places, which leads to one question: so, what is
Continue Reading By Lilit Marcus, CNN As more and more countries reopen their borders to eager tourists, a trendy new phrase has emerged on social media: revenge travel. The term has been used to describe trips as varied as family reunions, big splurge vacations and re-visits to favorite places, which leads to one question: so, what is
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By Chloe Melas The Billboard Music Awards were presented Sunday. See below for a full list of nominees, with the winners indicated in bold. Top Artist Doja Cat Drake *WINNER Olivia Rodrigo Taylor Swift The Weeknd Top New Artist Givēon Masked Wolf Olivia Rodrigo *WINNER Pooh Shiesty The Kid LAROI Top Male Artist Drake *WINNER
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Remarks and music with lyrics about love, loss and heaven were a common thread throughout the public memorial held for Naomi Judd Sunday at Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. CMT aired the emotional event for the singer and songwriter who died by suicide in April at the age of 76.
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By Zoe Sottile, CNN “Aquaman” star Jason Momoa took to Instagram to apologize for taking photos in the Sistine Chapel — by posting a sweaty, shirtless workout video. Momoa, 42, is currently in Rome shooting “Fast X”, the 10th installment in the “Fast & Furious” film saga. The actor posted snaps of himself below the
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Remarks and music with lyrics about love, loss and heaven were a common thread throughout the public memorial held for Naomi Judd Sunday at Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. CMT aired the emotional event for the singer and songwriter who died by suicide in April at the age of 76.
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN “Aquaman” star Jason Momoa took to Instagram to apologize for taking photos in the Sistine Chapel — by posting a sweaty, shirtless workout video. Momoa, 42, is currently in Rome shooting “Fast X”, the 10th installment in the “Fast & Furious” film saga. The actor posted snaps of himself below the
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By Marianne Garvey Winners of the Billboard Music Awards, which celebrate top performers on the Billboard Music Charts across genres, will be revealed Sunday. Sean “Diddy” Combs is producing and hosting the event, taking place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The Weeknd leads among finalists with nods in 17 categories. Silk
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By Chloe Melas Travis Scott is scheduled to perform at the Billboard Music Awards on Sunday, marking his first major public performance since a crowd surge killed ten people and injured thousands at his Astroworld Festival in Houston last November. Sean “Diddy” Combs, who is the executive producer and host of this year’s Billboard Music
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By Ivana Kottasová and Rob Picheta, CNN Ukraine’s folk-rap group Kalush Orchestra has won this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, surfing a wave of goodwill from European nations to clinch the country’s third win at the glitzy event. The band’s song “Stefania,” written about the frontman’s mother, beat competition from main rivals the United Kingdom and
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By Chloe Melas, CNN Britney Spears made a devastating announcement Saturday. The Grammy winner posted a joint message on her Instagram account, telling her fans she and her fiancé, Sam Asghari have lost their pregnancy. “It is with our deepest sadness we have to announce that we have lost our miracle baby early in the
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Scottie Andrew, CNN From labor leader César Chávez’s decades of activism, to Roberto Clemente’s boundary-breaking career in Major League Baseball, to the “Queen of Salsa” Celia Cruz’s music with a message, the tales of notable Latinos who made history will be on display in a new Smithsonian exhibit. The National Museum of the American Latino
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Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN The recently opened Venice Biennale — an 8-month-long international festival of art and culture staged every other year (though it skipped 2021 due to the pandemic) — is an opportunity to see some of the world’s best artists all in one place. The event, with origins dating back to 1895, is
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By Zoe Sottile, CNN His name is “Hector,” he’s over 100 million years old, and his fossils sold for more than $12 million in auction at Christie’s. Hector is the most complete skeleton of Deinonychus antirrhopus ever found, according to Christie’s. The specimen, excavated in Montana in 2013, dates back to the early Cretaceous period:
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Jacopo Prisco, CNN Cita Sadeli saw the start of the pandemic from a different angle than most: standing on an articulated lift, hovering 120 feet above street level. She spent much of early March 2020 painting a mural on the exterior of Hotel Zena in downtown Washington, DC, watching from above as the coronavirus outbreak
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