BSS Alicia Vikander won the Oscar for best supporting actress Sunday for her role in transgender love story “The Danish Girl” — the first acting honor handed out at the 88th Academy Awards. Vikander beat fellow nominees Jennifer Jason Leigh (“The Hateful Eight”), Rooney Mara (“Carol”), Rachel McAdams (“Spotlight”) and Kate Winslet (“Steve Jobs”).
BSS “Son of Saul,” a harrowing Holocaust drama which offers unflinching depictions of the gas chambers of Auschwitz, won the best foreign language film Oscar on Sunday. Laszlo Nemes’s Hungarian film beat Colombia’s “Embrace of the Serpent,” French movie “Mustang,” “Theeb” from Jordan, and Denmark’s “A War.”
BSS “Spotlight,” a searing portrait of The Boston Globe’s investigation into child sex abuse in the Catholic Church, won a surprise Oscar for best picture on Sunday at the 88th Academy Awards. The movie, which has picked up a string of honors on its way to Oscars glory, beat rivals “The Big Short,” “Bridge of…
BSS In the very last second before liftoff Sunday, SpaceX scrubbed the launch of its Falcon 9 rocket to send a communications satellite into orbit, marking the third delay since last week. A fuel problem forced the sudden delay, following a postponement — known as a hold — earlier in the evening due to a…
BSS Some 400 poor but meritorious students from village level schools were given reception here for creating more inspiration among themselves towards education besides taking the literacy rate up to cherished mark. Paba Area Development Programme (ADP) of World Vision Bangladesh organized the reception and prize-giving ceremony at Shilpakala Academy auditorium in Rajshahi city yesterday….
UNB A new report written by civil servants in Britain’s government concludes that leaving the European Union would touch off a decade of uncertainty because of the complex process of agreeing to terms to leave. The report cited in the Guardian newspaper on Monday said that millions would be affected as the UK takes a…
UNB Thousands of refugees are stuck on Greece’s border with Macedonia, overflowing from a packed camp into the surrounding fields, as they wait for Macedonian authorities to let them continue their trek through the Balkans. Police say about 6,500 people are at or near the Idomeni border crossing, with another 500 moved to a hastily…
UNB Emergency services in Spain say they have found the bodies of two female hikers who got caught in a snow storm while walking in a mountain area in the eastern part of the country. The regional government of Valencia said the two women were found late Sunday in the Tinenca de Benifassa mountain area….
UNB The Philippines has asked China to respect an upcoming decision by an international arbitration tribunal on Beijing’s claim to most of the South China Sea to show it does not regard itself as “above the law.” Reacting to criticism by his Chinese counterpart, Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said Monday that Beijing should…
UNB President Barack Obama is launching a version of “take your child to work day” that’s focused on America’s science laboratories instead of its corporate workspaces. It’s part of Obama’s effort to encourage young people, especially girls and minorities, to pursue careers in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math. More than 50 national…