The 2026 Athena Film Festival has selected this year’s honorees. Oscar-nominated documentary Cutting Through Rocks, directed by Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni, received the Jaya Award in partnership with the Illumine Service Foundation, a $10,000 prize given to a film focused on women’s leadership. Happy Birthday director Sarah Goher is being honored with the $25,000…
OpenAI Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways GPT-5.4’s 83% score suggests AI rivals expert professionals. Tests span nine industries and 44 real-world occupations. New capabilities boost coding, tools, and computer control. It seems like only yesterday that OpenAI released its GPT-5.2 model to the world. In fact, it’s…
As the war in the Middle East spreads and intensifies, the one in Ukraine continues. While the two are geographically some 2,500km (1,600 miles) apart, the consequences of US president Donald Trump’s latest military adventure for the Russian war against Ukraine will be acutely felt across several areas. In the short term, the Kremlin will…
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Thursday eased sanctions on seven footballers who played for Malaysia using falsified naturalisation documents, ruling they will serve a 12-month suspension from official matches only. Deportivo Alaves’ Facundo Garces was among seven players banned for a year by Fifa in September, after football’s governing body found that…
“What do you mean by wild?” Maggie Gyllenhaal has been hearing a lot of reactions to The Bride! like mine lately. The actress-turned-filmmaker understands that label being used for her punk-infused, sensual and decadently designed revisionist take on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and James Whale’s subsequent 1935 classic film Bride of Frankenstein. She made it with…
In her speech, she described two NHS hospital trusts that tried to set up their own care services but discovered they could not make it “stack up” financially because anyone working in the NHS is better paid, and has better terms and conditions, than care staff.
The Outsiders and Maybe Happy Ending, the past two recipients of the Tony Award for best musical, are coming to the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, the Nederlander Organization announced Thursday. The 2026-27 Broadway in Hollywood schedule also features four other recent best musical Tony nominees — Water for Elephants, Buena Vista Social Club, Operation Mincemeat…
Jake Gyllenhaal has joined the Bulgari family. The veteran actor has been named global brand ambassador for the luxury fashion house. Authenticity has a lot to do with it as both Gyllenhaal and Bulgari’s CEO referenced the quality in their respective statements about one another. “I’ve always felt close to Bulgari for the way it…
It might sound like the stuff of daydreams now, but once upon a time it was briefly the very real intention of Sony and Nintendo to collaborate on a console. Nicknamed the Nintendo PlayStation, the idea was that a new CD-ROM format backed by Sony would be added to the cartridge-based Super NES, resulting in…
