PARIS (Reuters) – Director Wes Anderson’s latest outing, a debut turn behind the camera for actor Viggo Mortensen and an animated Pixar movie about jazz would have starred at this year’s cancelled Cannes Film Festival, organisers said on Wednesday. Cannes Film festival General Delegate Thierry Fremaux and Cannes Film festival President Pierre Lescure pose at
Month: June 2020
FILE PHOTO: Mar 7, 2020; Toronto, Ontario, CAN; Adidas Nativo XXV ball is used before an MLS match between New York City and Toronto FC at BMO Field. Mandatory Credit: Kevin Sousa-USA TODAY Sports (Reuters) – The MLS Players Association has ratified a new collective bargaining agreement in a vote that also finalized a plan
People pull the body of a dead pregnant elephant out of the water, after the animal was allegedly fed with firecracker-stuffed pineapple and died, in Malappuram, India, May 27, 2020 in this still image taken from a video. ANI/Reuters TV via REUTERS KOCHI, India (Reuters) – A pregnant elephant died in India apparently after eating
FILE PHOTO: Chickens are retrieved from an Iowa farm by an animal rights group to avoid them being gassed as egg demand falls due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak near Fort Dodge, Iowa, U.S., May 16, 2020. Animal Place/Handout via REUTERS WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) – The chief executive of Pilgrim’s Pride Corp, a major U.S.
PARIS (Reuters) – French government and industry officials are negotiating a 1-billion-euro, privately led investment fund for small aerospace suppliers in which major manufacturers could invest 200 million euros, people familiar with the proposals said on Wednesday. The logo of Airbus is pictured at the entrance of the Airbus facility in Bouguenais, near Nantes, France
An aerial view of the ancient Maya Aguada Fenix site in Mexico’s Tabasco state, with causeways and reservoirs in the front and the Main Plateau in the back, is seen in this image released on June 3, 2020. Takeshi Inomata/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS – NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Mick Doohan dominated the top class of motorcycle racing for half a decade at the end of the last century, wiping the floor with the competition to win five consecutive 500cc world championships. FILE PHOTO: Born on June 4, 1965: Mick Doohan, Australian motorcycle racer 500cc World Champion Australian Mick Doohan gestures
FILE PHOTO: Remove China Apps is seen in the Google Play store on a mobile phone in this illustration taken June 2, 2020. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui/Illustration/File Photo NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google has taken down an Indian mobile application from its app store that allowed users to remove other Chinese apps from their phones
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday the Republican National Convention set for August in North Carolina would have to be held in another state because of social distancing restrictions ordered by the state’s governor. FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper as House Republican
A Renault car is seen in a show room at a Renault carmaker dealer, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, Belgium May 29, 2020. REUTERS/Yves Herman PARIS (Reuters) – Renault (RENA.PA) finalised on Wednesday a 5 billion euro ($5.60 billion) loan from with the French government, strengthening the carmaker’s finances in the wake
WASHINGTON/MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of people defied curfews to take to the streets of U.S. cities on Tuesday for an eighth night of protests over the death of a black man in police custody, as National Guard troops lined the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Clashes between protesters and police and looting of
FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson appears before the Liaison Committee via Zoom from the cabinet room at 10 Downing Street, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in London, Britain May 27, 2020. Andrew Parsons/10 Downing Street/Handout via REUTERS LONDON (Reuters) – The United Kingdom will not walk away from the people of Hong
TOKYO (Reuters) – The recent death of Hana Kimura, a bubbly, pink-haired 22-year-old wrestler and reality TV show star, has spotlighted a rise in cyber bullying in Japan and prompted swift official pledges to do more to protect victims. FILE PHOTO: Hana Kimura competes during the New Japan Pro-Wrestling’s ‘Wrestle Kingdom 14’ at Tokyo Dome
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Genetic sampling of the Dead Sea Scrolls has tested understandings that the 2,000-year-old artefacts were the work of a fringe Jewish sect, and shed light on the drafting of scripture around the time of Christianity’s birth. A fragment from the Dead Sea Scrolls that underwent genetic sampling to shed light on the
FILE PHOTO: Tennis – All-Czech Tennis Tournament – TK Sparta Prague, Prague, Czech Republic, May 28, 2020 Czech Republic’s Petra Kvitova celebrates winning her final match with the trophy against Czech Republic’s Karolina Muchova, as play resumes, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) REUTERS/David W Cerny/File Photo NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Cincinnati
FILE PHOTO: Facebook logo is seen on a shop window in Malaga, Spain, June 4, 2018. REUTERS/Jon Nazca/File Photo MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s plans to tax tech companies’ revenues does not discriminate against any country, a government source told Reuters on Tuesday after the United States opened a probe into such taxes or proposals by