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Hong Kong and global film icon Jackie Chan received a Career Leopard award on Saturday night and an enthusiastic welcome at the 78th edition of the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland. And on Sunday morning, the legendary multi-hyphenate shared insights into his career during a talk at the festival that drew a large crowd that started lining up outside the cinema well ahead of time. Chan recalled …

Good morning. You may have heard a saying along the lines that “when the US sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold”. So when the US health department announced plans to cut half a billion dollars in vaccine research funding on Wednesday, the world took notice. The US is the world’s largest funder of biomedical research, but this …

Patriots owner Robert Kraft sees the deal that will make NFL Media part of ESPN and give the NFL 10 percent ownership of ESPN as another step toward the league’s global growth ambitions. “I think we’ve hooked up with the best partners we can have,” Kraft told NFL Network. “That will help expose us to more homes, more of an …

On Tuesday, the league announced that it will sell NFL Network to ESPN, allowing ESPN to distribute NFL RedZone to pay-television operators and combine NFL Fantasy Football with ESPN Fantasy Football. In exchange, the NFL will take a 10 percent equity stake in ESPN. The NFL Network’s Judy Battista spoke with Patriots owner Robert Kraft, who is the chairman of …

Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu BBC News Facebook/Jackson Police Department A man suspected of targeting and killing members of his girlfriend’s family and leaving a baby abandoned in front of a stranger’s home has been arrested in rural Tennessee. The weeklong manhunt for Austin Robert Drummond ended after local authorities instituted an early morning shelter-in-place for residents near Jackson after he was …

Facebook Tweet Email Link A third person has been arrested on suspicion of helping a fugitive accused of killing four relatives of a Tennessee baby who was found abandoned alive last week, authorities said Monday. Meanwhile, authorities were scouring a wooded area near a private university in Jackson, Tennessee, on Monday afternoon as part of the investigation into the suspect …

Robert Wilson, a leader in avant-garde theater who collaborated with Philip Glass, David Byrne and Lady Gaga over his six-decade career, has died. He was 83. The “Einstein on the Beach” director died Thursday at his home in Water Mill, N.Y., after a “brief but acute illness,” according to his website. “While facing his diagnosis with clear eyes and determination, …

Robert Wilson, the pioneering avant-garde playwright and theater director who collaborated with Philip Glass, Tom Waits, Lady Gaga, and more, has died. Chris Green, the executor of Wilson’s estate and the president of the Robert Wilson Arts Foundation confirmed the news to The New York Times, stating that the artist died Thursday (July 31) at his home in Water Mill, …

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Robert Wilson, renowned theatre director, playwright and artist, has died at the age of 83. His death was confirmed by the Watermill Center, an arts hub Wilson founded in Water Mill, New York. He died peacefully after “a brief but acute illness”. Wilson’s career in theatre started in the late 1960s when he started the performance art group the Byrd …