TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Chinese-Canadian pop star Kris Wu has been detained by Beijing police on suspicion of rape, police announced Saturday, following an accusation the former member of the Korean boy band EXO lured young women into sexual relationships. Wu, 30, earlier was accused by a teenager of having sex with her while she
Month: August 2021
Dhivya O’Connor, interim chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Fundraising, is to take up the top role at the education charity United World Schools. O’Connor joined the CIoF in May as interim successor to Peter Lewis. The membership body announced earlier this week that Katie Docherty would become its permanent chief executive from October.
Travelers may not be able attend this year’s Summer Olympic Games, but they can still experience Japan virtually. As the global pandemic marches on, tourist attractions and enterprising tour guides are finding ways to emulate the look, feel and taste of a trip to the Land of the Rising Sun. Sightseeing and shopping For 2,000
Play video content Real Time with Bill Maher/HBO Bill Maher is back with a vengeance … and he’s making a case that cancel culture and cultural appropriation are destroying America. Bill’s back from a month-long hiatus and he zeroed in on the honchos at the Olympics who were 86’d for decades-old infractions. He then targeted
While the build up to a holiday is no doubt exciting, it is never supposed to be nail biting. Unfortunately, more and more British travellers have found this to be the case during the pandemic as they have been forced to run not just one gauntlet, but several: from the fast-changing nature of the traffic
Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images The IRS began issuing another 1.5 million tax refunds this week to people who received unemployment benefits in 2020. That adds to the nearly 9 million refunds, worth about $10 billion, the agency sent since May. Funds delivered by direct deposit this week started hitting bank accounts on Wednesday, and
Play video content 42 Dugg has responded to a now-viral video of him kissing and licking his son’s neck — and he’s firing back with nothing but homophobia. The rapper addressed a clip he posted late this week in which he’s seen being affectionate with his young son — who just turned 3 — aboard
Refresh for updates…Disney is reporting $2.7M for its Dwayne Johnson-Emily Blunt family adventure movie Jungle Cruise off 7PM shows. A24’s Dev Patel fantasy movie Green Knight came up strong with $750K at 2,790 theaters. The NY-based indie distrib’s previous preview highs include Ari Aster’s Midsommar (which started on a Tuesday) with $1.1M and the filmmaker’s Hereditary which did a $1.3M Thursday. Green Knight has
We discover why Sydney is continuing its dominance as one of the top cities in the world in which to live, placemaking has been brought further into the limelight by both government and developers. One Sydney Harbour, Sydney, Australia. Image: LendLease Australia. Sydney has some of the best parks of any major city in the
Born to jump. By Jordan Hoffman July 31, 2021 While her parents Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa are doing eight shows a week at the Walter Kerr Theatre, Jessica Springsteen is at the Tokyo Olympic Games, ready to represent Team USA in show jumping. In an interview with PEOPLE, the 29-year-old Springsteen, who has been
Almost two million volunteers supported by the National Lottery Community Fund have contributed £4bn to the UK economy over the past three years, according to new research. A new report, Power in Purpose, published yesterday by the grant-maker, sets out the extent of the social and economic impact volunteers make to communities. Researchers found that