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45-year-old Nigerian standup comedy star Basketmouth made a stop in Berlin on his European tour to thrill the crowd with his socio-political commentary on a range of topics — including his country's ongoing currency crisis.

The cruise industry is expected to garner over $30 billion in revenue this year, making it the fastest-growing tourism sector. Around 36 million passengers are expected to take a cruise holiday in 2024.

Violinist Alena Baeva is Russian, Luxembourgish Polish and Ukrainian. With her Ukrainian husband, the pianist Vadym Kholodenko, she has just released a new album entitled "Fantasy", which revisits dream-tinted music by Franz Schubert, Igor Stravinsky, Robert Schumann and Olivier Messiaen.

The event, which was advertised as a “full Wonka experience” complete with “delectable” chocolate fountains and “whimsical” Oompa-Loompas, ended up being a spectacular failure as children were left in tears and parents were left furious.

Filmmaker Nausheen Khan's Land of My Dreams recounts the 2019 Shaheen Bagh protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). Khan captures the resilience and powerful patriotism of the women at the forefront of the movement, while exploring her own Muslim identity.1

As Cuba's week-long Habano festival kicks off, partly state-owned cigar manufacturer Habanos SA announced a 31 percent boost in revenue over the course of 2023.

A “historic day” for Sweden who will finally be able to join NATO after Hungary’s parliament ratified its bid. Also in the news: French schools start their student uniform trials as part of a controversial national experiment.

Rarely discussed but extremely common: sex drive mismatch. It's very normal for couples to have different libidos. And you can fix it. Here's how.

Broken childhoods is the summary of this week's film show: those of young film stars, at the heart of French actress Judith Godrèche's speech at France's César awards ceremony; and that of the young heroine in the film "When it Melts", which is out in France this week.

The documentary, directed by Mati Diop, was awarded the Golden Bear. The top prize at this year's Berlin International Film Festival was given to “Dahomey,” a documentary by the French Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop about 26 looted artworks that were returned to Benin from France in 2021.

Why "Gone with the Wind" made movie history, "Asphalt Cowboy" exorcised prudery from Hollywood and Bong Joon-ho's "Parasite" catapulted the Oscars into the 21st century. Arts Unveiled journeys through nine decades of the Academy Awards.

Lina Soualem's latest film looks back at four generations of Palestinian women, with her mother, actress Hiam Abbass, serving as a guide to their family history. "Bye Bye Tiberias" charts their displacement from the shores of the Sea of Galilee to the village of Deir Hanna, using home videos and archive footage to place this very personal story within its larger historical context.