• Sun. Jul 13th, 2025

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Tourists begin to trickle in months after April killings in Pahalgam

Abid Bhat Ghanshyam Bharadwaj and Mamata Sharma travelled to Srinagar on the new train Two months after a deadly attack in Indian-administered Kashmir scared away tourists and brought India and…

Lou Christie dead: ‘Lightnin’ Strikes’ singer was 82

Lou Christie, the singer and songwriter who set teen fans screaming in the 1960s with hits like “Lightnin’ Strikes” and “Two Faces Have I,” has died. He was 82. Christie…

Bride shot dead in attack on wedding party in south-east France

A bride was shot dead on her wedding night in a village near the south-east French city of Avignon after masked gunmen opened fire, local officials say. One suspected attacker…

Pixar needs original animated hits. They’re much harder to come by at the box office

For decades, Pixar could hardly miss with its original animated films. Whether the subject was toys, fish or a cantankerous old man, the Emeryville-based computer animation studio churned out hit…

The victims caught in the crossfire in Cape Town

Nick Ericsson BBC Africa Eye Africa family Davin was shot dead four months’ ago – an unwitting casualty of Cape Flats’ gang problem The distraught father lies on the narrow,…

Bombing in Iran sparks concern for historic Isfahan architecture

While military strategists scramble to learn the damage done by U.S. bombs and missiles in Iran, many scholars and Iranian Americans are wondering what this means for the people and…

‘Necessary’ or ‘unfounded’? Americans in Texas respond to US strikes on Iran

The BBC asked Texans and those visiting the state what they make of US President Donald Trump’s decision to bomb three nuclear sites in Iran. Trump told the nation in…

Jason Segel, Kayla Radomski engaged after 2 years of dating

Jason Segel and Kayla Radomski are taking their love to a new level: engagement. “Shrinking” star Segel, 45, popped the question to girlfriend and “So You Think You Can Dance”…

What the US and Iran do next could be even more momentous

Lyse Doucet Chief international correspondent BBC For decades, the United States and Iran have carefully avoided crossing a dangerous red line into a direct military confrontation. One American president after…

’28 Years Later’ review: This reboot is half-genius, half-monster

Zombies were dormant when screenwriter Alex Garland convinced director Danny Boyle to resurrect the undead — and make them run. The galloping ghouls in their low-budget 2002 thriller “28 Days…