Ugandans will vote on Jan. 14 in a presidential election that pits long-ruling incumbent Yoweri Museveni against ten rivals, including a young pop star who is emerging as the strongest challenger.
Singer Olivia Dean was the big winner at Saturday's BRIT Awards, picking up four prizes at Britain's pop music honours.
A pop-up shop-cum-exhibition in New York is celebrating David Bowie on his upcoming 75th birth anniversary.
Chinese-owned short video-sharing app TikTok on Thursday announced stricter privacy controls for teenagers, seeking to address criticism that it has failed to protect children from hidden advertising and inappropriate content.
Berlin is making permanent the extra bike lanes it added during coronavirus lockdowns as it seeks to support the cycling boom that started in the pandemic.
Beijing has stepped up security and COVID curbs and decorated the capital with red political banners as it gears up for a Communist Party congress where President Xi Jinping is poised to become China's most powerful leader since Mao Zedong.
China's market regulator issued trial guidelines on business practices primarily for the toy industry on Thursday, banning the sale of mystery boxes to children under the age of eight years, and requiring a guardian's consent for older children.
Adele and Ed Sheeran were announced on Saturday as two of the top nominees for the 2022 BRIT Awards, with four nominations each.
First came the factories, then came the food, and then the pop tunes took over. South Korean fervor in Mexico has been years in the making, growing into a mass movement that has seen President Claudia Sheinbaum share a balcony with K-pop royalty BTS, and visiting World Cup fans greeted with the chant: "Korean, my brother, you're now Mexican."
Australians expressed shock and sadness on Tuesday as they woke up to the news that 1970s and '80s pop icon Olivia Newton-John, star of the hit movie musical "Grease", had died at age 73 at her home in Southern California.
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A small IT company in the central Indian city of Indore has come up with an unusual way to ensure its employees maintain a healthy work-life balance - by creating software to remind them when their shift is up and it is time to head home.
Kellanova beat Wall Street estimates for third-quarter sales and profit on Thursday, driven by resilient demand for its ready-to-eat breakfast items and snacks, including Pringles and Pop-Tarts, even as macroeconomic uncertainty looms.
South Korea is often rocked by scandals at its entrenched family-run conglomerates led by Samsung, but its younger technology stars are problematic too. The arrest on Tuesday of billionaire Kim Beom-su, also known as Brian Kim, for stock price manipulation, comes at a delicate time for his Kakao empire. Yet a heavy-handed crackdown on the company could jeopardise the country's new breed of promising global businesses.
Singer Charli XCX, whose album "Brat" inspired a cultural phenomenon last summer, led nominations for the BRIT Awards on Thursday, with the Beatles also recognised with their first nod at Britain's pop music honours since 1977.
Aaron Carter, who won early fame as a child pop star and toured with his brother's hit band Backstreet Boys before pursuing careers in rap and acting, was found dead in his home near Los Angeles on Saturday, according to media reports.
Pinch-hitter Adrian Del Castillo singled in the go-ahead run in a two-run eighth inning and the Arizona Diamondbacks rallied to beat the host Philadelphia Phillies 4-3 in the rubber game of the three-game series Sunday.
English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran won best artist and best song for "Bad Habits", while K-pop stars BTS snatched four awards at MTV's Europe Music Awards, which returned as an in-person event after a virtual 2020 edition due to the pandemic.
China's crackdown on "fan culture" is aimed at maintaining public order and will not affect its relations with any country, the Chinese embassy in South Korea said on Wednesday.
Two companies that claimed they could help rid computers of viruses and malware agreed to pay $26 million to settle U.S. Federal Trade Commission charges they duped consumers, particularly older adults, into buying repair services they did not need.