In a small village in the Hebron hills of the occupied West Bank, Hamdan Ballal stood outside his house in a track suit with a black eye.
He held the hand of his 18-month-old daughter, who stood in a pool of his dried blood.
Things looked quite (...)
Three weeks ago, Palestinian film-maker Hamdan Ballal stood in front of the world's cameras in Hollywood, picking up an Oscar for best documentary film.
The cameras were watching him again on Tuesday, a hand to his bruised face, as he walked (...)
A United Airlines Boeing 787 jetliner flying from Los Angeles to Shanghai had to turn around last weekend after it was discovered one of the pilots had taken off without a passport, the airline told CNN in a statement.
Flight UA 198 departed LAX at (...)
Disney's live-action version of the classic fairy-tale Snow White has topped the North American box office chart despite a slew of underwhelming reviews.
The movie has taken an estimated $87.3m (£67.5m) globally during its opening weekend, according (...)
Kirsty Coventry has been elected president of the International Olympic Committee and becomes the first woman and first African to get arguably the biggest job in global sports.
The Zimbabwe sports minister and two-time Olympic swimming gold (...)
Google has agreed to pay $28m (£21.5m) to settle a lawsuit that claimed white and Asian employees were given better pay and career opportunities than workers from other ethnic backgrounds, a law firm representing claimants says.
The technology giant (...)
Mexican authorities say they have arrested Francisco Javier Román-Bardales, an alleged leader of the MS-13 gang who is on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.
Román-Bardales was arrested on the Teocelo-Baxtla highway in Veracruz, according to a (...)
RIYADH — Chairman of the Board of Directors of the General Entertainment Authority (GEA) Turki Al-Sheikh, alongside TKO Group Holdings, Inc. and entertainment giant Sela, has announced a multi-year partnership to establish a new boxing promotion (...)
The 97th Academy Awards concluded Sunday with Anora capturing five Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director (Sean Baker) and Best Actress (Mikey Madison), in a star-studded ceremony hosted by Conan O'Brien on Hollywood's biggest night.
Adrien (...)
Rapper A$AP Rocky has been found not guilty of firing a gun at a former friend.
A jury in Los Angeles acquitted the musician, whose legal name is Rakim Mayers, on two felony assault charges that carried up to 24 years in prison.
Terell Ephron (...)
A few hours after President Donald Trump announced that he would impose steep tariffs on Canada, hockey fans in the capital Ottawa booed the Star-Spangled Banner during a National Hockey League game against a visiting US team.
On Sunday, during a (...)
A stunned expression shot across Beyoncé's face as her latest record, Cowboy Carter, was named best country album at the 67th Grammy Awards.
In a moment laced with symbolism, the award was announced by Taylor Swift — another artist who has (...)
A star-studded line-up is taking over two venues in Los Angeles for a benefit concert to help the area recover from two of the largest fires in its history.
More than 20 artists from various genres are on the line-up for the FireAid benefit show, (...)
A weekend storm is expected to soak California's dry terrain, potentially bringing an end to the deadly wildfires that have ravaged the state.
However, the storm also poses a significant risk of flash floods in areas impacted by recent (...)
US President Donald Trump has ordered officials to make plans to declassify documents related to three of the most consequential assassinations in US history -- the killings of John F Kennedy, Robert F Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr.
"A lot of (...)
The Hughes fire erupted late Wednesday morning and charred through more than 40 square kilometers of trees and brush near the Lake Castaic area in less than a day.
The fire is located about 60 km away from the Pacific Palisades neighborhood, where (...)
A new fast-moving wildfire has erupted in Los Angeles County, prompting tens of thousands to evacuate a region already reeling from the most destructive fires in its history.
The Hughes fire ignited about 45 miles northwest of the city of Los (...)
A song recorded for Tina Turner's blockbuster album Private Dancer, that was presumed lost, has been rediscovered and will receive its first play on BBC Radio 2 later.
Hot For You, Baby, was cut at Capitol Studios in Hollywood and originally (...)
The Oscar nominations will be announced soon, in an exciting year for the film awards race where there is no consensus frontrunner for best picture.
Blockbusters such as Wicked and Dune: Part Two will compete with Emilia Pérez, Conclave, A Complete (...)
David Lynch, an influential director known for his unique and surrealistic films and TV shows including "Blue Velvet" and "Twin Peaks," has died. He was 78.
His death was confirmed via his official Facebook page, where his family wrote:
"It is with (...)
The hiking trail through Temescal Canyon in western Los Angeles is a favorite of locals.
Towering above the twisting roads and manicured homes that make up the Pacific Palisades, urban hikers seeking an escape from America's famously gridlocked city (...)
Donald Trump wants to make Hollywood "bigger, better and stronger" and has cast Mel Gibson, Jon Voight and Sylvester Stallone as stars of what he is calling his "Special Ambassadors to a great but very troubled place, Hollywood, California."
The (...)
Two Chinese citizens are standing trial in New York for charges related to the illicit fentanyl trade in a landmark case as officials aim to crack down on the movement of the deadly drug and its components from China to the United States.
Defendants (...)
Michael Storc and his family had just survived a devastating wildfire.
Now they have to face a daunting new challenge that he had hoped to never experience again — the Los Angeles housing market.
After losing the Altadena home that he owned in the (...)
At least 100,000 scores by the pioneering 20th century Austrian-American composer Arnold Schoenberg have been destroyed in the Los Angeles wildfires.
The sheet music was kept at his family's music production company — which burnt down in the Pacific (...)
