By Canadian Press on October 5th, 2025
LOS ANGELES (AP) — This weekend’s box office belonged to two undeniable draws: Taylor Swift and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. It might have looked like a heavyweight matchup, but Swift’s devoted fanbase once again proved unstoppable with her film “The Official Release Party of a Show Girl,” which debuted at No. 1 with $33 million ... Read More »
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PARIS (AP) — Against strobe lights that suggested seediness more than spectacle, Alessandro Michele’s Valentino collection showed restraint where once there was riot. Prim ’70s silhouettes — bows, ruching, velvet skirts — set a mood at Paris Fashion Week of controlled nostalgia. The high point was a draped gold gown with a feathered white collar, ... Read More »
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PARIS (AP) — Against strobe lights that suggested seediness more than spectacle, Alessandro Michele sent out “Fireflies,” a Valentino collection that showed restraint where once there was riot. Prim ’70s silhouettes — bows, ruching, velvet skirts — set a mood at Paris Fashion Week of controlled nostalgia. The high point was a draped gold gown ... Read More »
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MUNICH (AP) — The 190th Oktoberfest came to a close Sunday, wrapping up the world’s largest folk festival with the traditional Bavarian marksmen’s gun salute in Munich. Roughly 6.5 million visitors attended between Sept. 20 and Sunday, German news agency dpa reported, including Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Austrian-born former governor of California spontaneously conducted a live ... Read More »
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PARIS (AP) — Michael Rider’s second collection for Celine, shown Sunday in the Parc de Saint-Cloud, confirmed that his reset of the house is less rupture than weaving together its many pasts. Where his July debut toyed with former Celine designer Phoebe Philo’s minimalism and Hedi Slimane’s bourgeois tailoring, at Paris Fashion Week Rider took ... Read More »
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NEW YORK (AP) — Bad Bunny kicked off the 51st season of “Saturday Night Live” with a few timely jokes about his next high-profile gig: the Super Bowl. “I think everybody is happy about it — even Fox News,” the music superstar said, jokingly referring to some opposition to his being named headliner of the ... Read More »
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NEW YORK (AP) — “Saturday Night Live ” kicked off its 51st season with faces both fresh and familiar and a sketch mocking Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s presentation to generals earlier this week. Colin Jost played Hegseth, mocking the defense secretary’s remarks in which he said it’s “it’s tiring to look out at combat formations ... Read More »
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BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese pop star turned wanted Islamic militant handed himself over to the country’s military intelligence service Saturday 12 years after going on the run, judicial and security officials said. Fadel Shaker, had been on the run since the bloody street clashes between Sunni Muslim militants and the Lebanese army in June ... Read More »
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Attorneys for Sean “Diddy” Combs are planning to appeal after the Grammy-winning artist and music executive was sentenced Friday to more than four years in prison for transporting people across state lines for sexual encounters. The case shattered his carefully cultivated reputation as an affable celebrity entrepreneur, A-list party host and reality TV star. It ... Read More »
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BEIRUT (AP) — Minutes after journalists gathered outside a Gaza hospital to survey the damage of an Israeli strike, Ibrahim Qannan pointed his camera up at the battered building as the others climbed its external stairs. Then Qannan watched in horror — while broadcasting live — as a second strike killed the friends and colleagues ... Read More »
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Sean “Diddy” Combs’ life of luxury atop the hip-hop world vanished with his criminal conviction. He now faces the grim prospect of more years behind bars as his attorneys make plans to appeal. Combs’ carefully cultivated reputation as an affable celebrity entrepreneur, A-list party host and reality TV star came crashing down Friday. The Grammy-winning ... Read More »
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