Sunday, June 26, 2011 File:Peter Falk Columbo.JPG US actor Peter Falk died on Thursday at his home in Beverly Hills, California after a struggle with Alzheimer’s disease. Falk may be most known for his role as Detective Columbo in the television series of the same name that ran on NBC from 1968 to 1978, which …

Saturday, May 6, 2006 A four-year-old Indian boy from the eastern state of Orissa ran 65 kilometers (40 miles) continuously, setting an Indian record and possibly a world record as well. Budhia Singh, a slum resident whose talent was discovered by a local coach, completed his run in seven hours and two minutes. Budhia had …

Wednesday, May 3, 2006 New filmmaker Solomon Rothman has released a trailer for his upcoming full length open source film called ‘Boy Who Never Slept.’ Both the movie and the trailer are offered under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 license. The movie is set to be released at the end of May. The film centers …

Thursday, December 2, 2021 In a talk made to officials at a meeting of the Political Bureau of the Workers’ Party of Korea held on Wednesday, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned officials of a coming “very giant struggle” in the economic field, reported Party newspaper Rodong Sinmun. Present at the meeting, which was …

Saturday, April 19, 2008 Germaine Tillion, French World War II resistance fighter and anthropologist, died today at the age of 100. She was born on May 30, 1907 in Allègre, Haute-Loire, France. Before 1940 and the fall of France she had already made 4 trips to Algeria, spending time there with the Berber people. During …

Sunday, October 25, 2015 The Cardiff University student union has called for the cancelling of a November lecture by feminist author and academic Germaine Greer, following comments about transgender star Caitlyn Jenner and other trans women that they have labelled ‘transmisogynistic’. In an online petition, women’s officer Rachael Melhuish asserts that Greer “…has demonstrated time …

Thursday, September 10, 2009 Reading Rainbow, an American children’s television series is to stop showing on television. It ceased to be shown on Friday after a 26 year long run because of a funding shortfall of several hundred thousand dollars needed to renew the broadcast rights. The PBS show has more than two-dozen Emmy awards, …