Theatres, museums, galleries and other cultural ventures will get a £1.6billion bailout to stop them going under as a result of the coronavirus crisis. Thousands of venues will be able to seek emergency grants and loans in what ministers say is the biggest ever one-off investment in UK arts. With no live performances and more than 350,000 […]

Amazonian tribe members in Ecuador released six people they had kidnapped to demand the release of the body of a leader killed by the coronavirus, the government said on Saturday. Two police officers, two soldiers, and two civilians were taken captive by the indigenous people on Thursday in the village of Kumay near the Peruvian […]

A British (UK) royal historian who said slavery was not genocide has quit his honorary position at Cambridge University and been dropped by his publisher HarperCollins. The comments from Professor David Starkey came during a period of soul searching in Britain over its colonial past. The Black Lives Matter movement that gained momentum after the […]

An Indian man said he paid about $4,000 for a bespoke gold face mask to protect him from the coronavirus raging in the country. The precious metal covering weighs 60 grams (two ounces) and took craftsmen eight days to make, said businessman Shankar Kurhade, from the western city of Pune. “It is a thin mask […]

A commercial rocket carrying seven satellites was “lost” after take-off Sunday from a New Zealand launch pad, the owner Rocket Lab said. “We lost the flight late into the mission,” Peter Beck, Rocket Lab’s founder and chief executive, tweeted. “I am incredibly sorry that we failed to deliver our customers’ satellites today. Rest assured we […]