LONDON (CNN) – After more than 50 years, the identity of the old man with a cane on the album cover for Led Zeppelin IV has finally been revealed. The “old man with a firewood” on the cover of British rock band Led Zeppelin’s fourth studio album, released in 1971, was a roofer in the … Read more
Tourism officials from New York City have held a promotional event in Tokyo aimed at attracting more Japanese travelers to the Big Apple. Japanese travel agents and media personnel were among the attendees at Friday’s event, which featured hip-hop music to mark the 50th anniversary of the genre’s birth in New York. City officials said … Read more
Asian Super Star Group丨Direct video of trainee theme song released to netizens: Asian Cramp Group TVB’s new idol talent show “Asia Super Star Cluster” will be broadcast next Saturday (25th), and the international version of Youku will be launched simultaneously. The program gathers 65 “superstar trainees” from mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Japan and … Read more
Cairo – Muhammad Ibrahim – The star, Safia Al-Omari, photographed a cover for an Arab magazine after an absence of 23 years. The last cover she photographed was “Al-Kawakib,” and the photo session was titled “Safia’s Eyes.” Photo session details: The photo session took two months of preparation. Safiya Al-Omari’s participation in the Women of … Read more
The foreign ministers of the United States and South Korea have agreed to take concerted action against military cooperation between Russia and North Korea. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his South Korean counterpart Park Jin met in Seoul on Thursday. The two shared “deep concerns” about North Korea’s “increasing and dangerous military cooperation … Read more
Mirna Walid – Beirut – A video was circulated of reality TV star Kylie Jenner without filter and Photoshop during her presence at the latest events on the red carpet, and her skin appeared very tired as if she was much older than 26 years, which caused shock to a large number of followers. This … Read more
Al Khaleej 365 newspaper: The Lebanese artist Elissa called for not “outbidding” the “patriotic” artists, against those who demand that Arab artists “stop their artistic activities and express solidarity with the civilian victims in Gaza.” Elissa said, in a tweet on her account on the “X” platform: “During the height of the war, the artists … Read more
Mirna Walid – Beirut – Today marks the birth anniversary of the late Syrian actor Khaled Taja, a veteran Syrian actor of Kurdish origins. The Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish called him the “Anthony Quinn” of the Arabs. Taja was born in the Rukn al-Din neighborhood, in the city of Damascus, in 1939. He began his … Read more
Mirna Walid – Beirut – The artist Grace Ayanyan greeted her husband, the Lebanese artist Joe Ashkar, on the occasion of their wedding anniversary. She posted a video clip on her personal account in which she showed beautiful moments she spent with her husband Joe, commenting on him by saying: “To the love of my … Read more
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Bloomberg — A brief liquidity crisis shook China’s money markets earlier this week, illustrating how the country’s tightly managed financial system is under strain from a deluge of government debt sales. On Tuesday, interest rates on overnight interbank loans shot up to 50% in isolated transactions for non-bank institutions, worsening a usually mild end-of-month funding … Read more