The Academy Awards may not have a host this year, but they will have a “Parasite.” Director Bong Joon Ho’s genre-jumbling class satire — a twisty, darkly comic thriller about two families, one rich and one poor, whose lives become entangled — made Oscars history Monday morning by becoming the first Korean film ever to earn […]
British actress Cynthia Erivo was nominated for her first Oscar on Monday morning for her performance as the iconic freedom fighter and abolitionist Harriet Tubman in Kasi Lemmons’ “Harriet.” The stage and screen actress (along with powerhouse singer — she is also nominated in the original song category) also earned Golden Globe, SAG and Critics’ […]
Dear Liz: We are a working couple in our late 50s. We live a comfortable lifestyle, have no mortgage, no debt, and we enjoy our careers. Through luck and diligence we have built a sizable net worth of $4.5 million (37% equity in our primary residence, 37% IRAs, 25% taxable equities). The investments are being […]
Click:6 mtr octagonal pole I’d been going to the same dive bar in Long Beach for more than a decade. Perhaps that explains why our drinks were so strong. Or maybe it was because there are numerous pictures of me and other customers hanging on the wall. Or because I used to sing karaoke there […]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A man who died in an Australian hospital became the 20th casualty of a New Zealand volcanic eruption more than a month ago, officials said on Monday. The victim was one of three Australians transferred to the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne , Australia, after the Dec. 9 eruption at White Island. A […]
WASHINGTON — The United States is preparing to remove more than a dozen Saudi military students from a training program and return them to their home country after an investigation into a deadly shooting by a Saudi aviation student at a Florida Navy base last month, a U.S. official told the Associated Press. The 21-year-old Saudi […]
SANDRINGHAM, England — Princes William and Harry slammed a newspaper report Monday describing a severe strain in their relationship, calling the story offensive and potentially harmful as they embark on talks regarding the future of the British monarchy. The two brothers issued the unusual statement even as Queen Elizabeth II was set to hold face-to-face talks […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The demonstrations that erupted after Iran admitted to accidentally shooting down a passenger plane during a tense standoff with the United States last week are the latest of several waves of protest going back to the 1979 Islamic Revolution — all of which have been violently suppressed. Iranians were shocked and […]
Sergio Perez says that he’ll probably call time on his Formula 1 career after three more years, unless the results start to come his way. The Mexican driver made his race debut in the sport in the 2011 Australian Grand Prix driving for Sauber. Since then he’s made 176 starts, moving to McLaren in 2013 […]
MONTREAL — Former governor general Michaelle Jean vividly remembers the shock of seeing the country of her birth after it was hit by a catastrophic earthquake on Jan. 12, 2010. “It was as if an atomic bomb had been dropped on Haiti,” Jean said in an interview with The Canadian Press this week. Ten years […]