2012 Toronto Film Festival - Premieres
Stars attend premiere galas during the Toronto International Film Festival.
Stars attend premiere galas during the Toronto International Film Festival.
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Ecologists highlight keystone species – those critical to the survival of many others. And there couldn’t be a much more important one than the sand eel, because sand eels are essential to the diet of some of our most charismatic British sea birds, particularly the kittiwake and the puffin. Both are red listed endangered species, now also because bird flu has hit them badly in recent years.
A quarter of a million Afghan children need education, food and homes after being forcibly returned from Pakistan, a nongovernmental organization said Thursday. Pakistan is cracking down on foreigners it alleges are in the country illegally, including 1.7 million Afghans. More than 520,000 Afghans have left Pakistan since last October.
A group locked themselves inside the Grade II-listed York & Albany hotel and gastropub in London last week.
Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa granted clemency to more than 4,000 prisoners, including some who were on death row, in an independence day amnesty on Thursday. Zimbabwe marked 44 years of independence from white minority rule, which ended in 1980 after a bloody bush war. The country’s name was changed from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe.
They are “codgers” who are “undertaxed”. And they should all be bundled into a cruise ship, and tossed into the ocean, while tax officers summarily seize their houses and pensions.
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Fady Joudah, an acclaimed Palestinian-American poet who has said he writes for the future because “the present is demolished,” has received a $100,000 award from Poets & Writers. Joudah's books include “The Earth in the Attic” and “Tethered to the Stars," along with English-language translations of the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.
The parliament of Bosnia´s autonomous Serb Republic adopted a report on Thursday stating that the killing of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica during the Bosnian war did not constitute genocide, contravening the rulings of international courts. The massacre in 1995, which happened in the week after the U.N. safe zone of Srebrenica was attacked by the Bosnian Serb forces, was seen as Europe's worst atrocity since World War Two. The parliamentary step came as Serbia and the Serb Republic campaign against a resolution to commemorate the Srebrenica genocide that is being debated in the United Nations and should be voted on in the General Assembly in early May.
Generative AI is advancing so quickly that the latest chatbots available today could be out of date tomorrow. Google, Meta Platforms and OpenAI, along with startups such as Anthropic, Cohere and France’s Mistral, have been churning out new AI language models and hoping to persuade customers they've got the smartest, handiest or most efficient chatbots. Meta is the latest to up its game, unveiling new models Thursday that will be among the most visible: they're already getting baked into Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
The 31-foot carbon monohull hit a cruising speed of 25 knots.
The Fantastic Four star Joseph Quinn has admitted he has "big boots" to fill from Chris Evans as Johnny Storm/the Human Torch.
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TORONTO — The Toronto Maple Leafs have signed defenceman Cade Webber to a two-year, entry-level contract, the NHL club announced Thursday. The contract carries an average annual value of US$875,000. The 23-year-old Weber had six assists in 38 games during the 2023-24 NCAA season with Boston University. He helped the Terriers reach the 2024 Men's Frozen Four semifinals. Webber, from Meadville, Penn., has 16 points (one goal, 15 assists) in 123 career NCAA games with Boston University. He was name
Some inbound flights to the world's second busiest airport resume, but many passengers remain stranded.
Guitar legend Dickey Betts, who co-founded the Allman Brothers Band and wrote their biggest hit, “Ramblin’ Man,” has died. He was 80. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer died at his home in Osprey, Florida, David Spero, Betts’ manager of 20 years, confirmed. Betts had been battling cancer for more than a year and had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Spero said. “He was surrounded by his whole family and he passed peacefully. They didn’t think he was in any pain,” Spero said by phone. Betts share
Modi has aimed to improve the lives of ordinary Indians, but some are still finding jobs hard to come by.
When the public sees an institution is failing, they generally lose trust in it. Not so with the health service.
One study found 86% of young people had gone through a friendship breakup.
A reconsideration of Nas’s literary clout, 30 years after the release of Illmatic.