LIFESTYLE

MOSCOW: French actor and newly minted Russian citizen Gerard Depardieu on Saturday compared President Vladimir Putin to the late Pope John Paul II and said the ex-KGB agent was what Russia needed as a

HONG KONG: A taxi driver who endured a six-month lawsuit after overcharging a passenger by six US cents has finally had his name cleared by a Hong Kong court.

SYDNEY: An Australian politician was left hopping after he was attacked by a kangaroo while on a morning jog in the national capital Canberra.

LONDON: David Beckham’s retirement caused an unlikely surge of interest in English League One minnows Leyton Orient after confusion over the location of the Paris Saint-Germain star’s farewell app

GREENWICH, Connecticut: An anteater has given birth at a Connecticut conservation center, prompting officials to wonder how the mother conceived.

DHAKA: A baby boy who was born in a Bangladeshi storm shelter was named after an impending cyclone, an official said yesterday.

CANNES: Iranian Oscar-winner Asghar Farhadi drew enthusiastic applause yesterday for one of the most keenly awaited films at Cannes, with a Paris-set tale about love and its agonies.

PARIS: A European Medicines Agency (EMA) said yesterday the benefits of acne drug Diane-35, also widely used as a contraceptive, outweigh the risk of developing blood clots in the veins — whe

Filmmakers in Gaza have finished making the first Palestinian animated feature in 3D in a bid to show a fresh perspective on life through a child’s eyes.

Over the past two years, publishers have been steadily filling one of the largest gaps in the e-book catalogue — poetry.