Dark reality of Marilyn Monroe comes to Venice
The film with the biggest buzz going into the Venice Film Festival, a dark new portrait of Marilyn Monroe starring Cuban actress Ana de Armas, finally gets its world premiere on Thursday.
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Spielberg off to Toronto as film festival hails LGBTQ 'breakthrough year'
Steven Spielberg will lead a host of Hollywood A-listers across the border to Toronto this week for North America's biggest film festival, which organizers say will celebrate a breakthrough year for LGBTQ cinema.
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'Help wanted': businesses struggle to fill jobs
Germany has a shortage of plumbers. The United States needs more postal workers. Australia is lacking engineers. In Canada, hospitals are looking for more nurses.
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Bolivian indigenous women break barriers through mountaineering
A sudden gale drowns out the crunching sound of footsteps on the ice and makes skirts billow in the freezing night.
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'A matter of honour': Women forced to stay in flooded Pakistan village
The 400 residents of Basti Ahmad Din, a tiny Pakistani village left surrounded by floodwater after torrential monsoon rains, are facing starvation and disease.
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Swiatek, Sabalenka into US Open semi-finals
Iga Swiatek reached her third Grand Slam semi-final of 2022 on Wednesday and first at the US Open with an error-strewn triumph over Jessica Pegula, the last remaining American woman in the tournament.
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Miandad to Naseem: Five Pakistan six-shooting heroes
Pakistan fast bowler Naseem Shah smashed Afghanistan left-arm seamer Fazalhaq Farooqi for successive sixes in the last over Wednesday to take his team to the final of the Asia Cup in a thrilling encounter.
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Jakarta's 'zombie' train confronts traffic apocalypse
In a city known for monstrous traffic, "zombies" are rising up in a scary bid to get more people to use public transport.
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Evangelicals flex muscle in Brazilian election race
Giociani Lucio, an evangelical Christian, stands on a street corner in Rio de Janeiro waving a flag with images of two would-be lawmakers who support President Jair Bolsonaro, flanking a well-known pastor.
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Suspect in Canada stabbing rampage dies after arrest: media
The last suspect in the stabbing spree in a remote western Canadian Indigenous community died after being arrested Wednesday at the end of a long manhunt, local media said.
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