Posts by Nathan Pine
Aoife Hinds & Billy Howle To Lead BBC Series ‘The Ministry Of Time’
Aoife Hinds (Dune: Prophecy, Normal People) and Billy Howle (The Perfect Couple, Under the Banner of Heaven) will star in BBC and A24 fantasy series The Ministry of Time. Hinds will play Sophy and Howle will be Commander Graham Gore, with filming beginning in and around London, as we reported earlier this year. Further casting…
Read MoreNSE said to seek up to US$55 billion valuation in record India IPO
Published Tue, Aug 18, 2026 · 06:24 PM [MUMBAI] National Stock Exchange of India, the operator of the world’s largest derivatives exchange by trading volume, is seeking a valuation of as much as 5.26 trillion rupees (US$55 billion) in its planned initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter. The exchange has marketed…
Read More‘The Odyssey’ Becomes Biggest Film Ever At BFI IMAX, Beating ‘Avatar’
Christopher Nolan’s acclaimed epic The Odyssey is now the biggest film of all time at the UK’s largest cinema, the BFI IMAX. To date, BFI IMAX has sold more than 101,000 admissions for the movie, generating £2,683,987 gross in ticket sales from a single screen and achieving a 95% occupancy rate across all showtimes currently…
Read MoreMoscow’s former colonies are done taking orders from Putin | Opinion
For three decades after the Soviet Union collapsed, governments across Central Asia and the South Caucasus made foreign-policy decisions with one question always in mind: What will Moscow allow? They have stopped asking. Kazakhstan supplies rare earths to America and tells Vladimir Putin to end his war. Armenia has written EU membership into law and…
Read MoreHayden Panettiere’s Ex, Wladimir Klitschko, Speaks Out About Her Death
Hayden Panettiere and Wladimir Klitschko split in 2018, but it was always clear that there remained love and respect between the two. Such was the case tonight when former heavyweight champion Klitschko spoke out for the first time about the untimely death of the 36-year-old Heroes actress, with whom he shared daughter Kaya. “Hayden’s tragic…
Read MoreLocals kept staring at American tourists. Then they realized the mistake they’d made
A U.S. couple vacationing in Venice, Italy, were forced into hiding after realizing they had made a potentially costly mistake. Julia Latoff and her boyfriend, Mike, were on a family trip to Italy and Austria celebrating his grandparents’ 60th wedding anniversary when a stopoff in the world-famous Floating City took an unexpected turn. It all…
Read MoreJon Ronson’s ‘Things Fell Apart’ Returns For Third Season On BBC
EXCLUSIVE: Jon Ronson‘s audio series Things Fell Apart is returning for a third season next year. The new season, the show’s first in three years, will follow the British-American gonzo journalist as he explores eight stories of outsiders fighting powerful institutions. Per the synopsis, it will include “all too human stories about the moment one person decides…
Read MoreUkraine unleashes largest drone siege on Moscow in years
Ukraine launched more than 600 drones toward the Russian capital of Moscow into the early hours of Tuesday, according to Russian authorities. Between Monday evening and 5 a.m. local time on Tuesday, 620 drones were detected flying toward the broader Moscow region, according to the city’s mayor Sergei Sobyanin. Around 180 of these uncrewed aerial…
Read MoreRevolut sets sights on Australia’s cut-throat mortgage market
Fintech wins Australian banking licence in July, its first in Asia-Pacific; it has launched savings accounts and credit cards Published Tue, Aug 18, 2026 · 03:41 PM [SYDNEY] European fintech Revolut is considering a move into Australia’s ultra-competitive mortgage market and winning customers from the “Big Four” retail banks that dominate the business, Revolut Australia…
Read MoreFraternity pledges made to cut cocaine as “indoctrination”—attorney
Pennsylvania State University fraternity pledges were allegedly enlisted to cut and package cocaine as an “indoctrination,” as 14 people have been charged over a drug-trafficking operation, prosecutors said. Thirteen of those charged were current or former Penn State students, while the 14th was the father of one of the alleged participants. Authorities said the operation…
Read MoreIndonesia’s planned commodity exchange likely to cover palm oil, nickel, coal
President Prabowo announced the plan during his 2027 budget proposal speech on Aug 14 Published Tue, Aug 18, 2026 · 02:02 PM [JAKARTA] Indonesia’s planned exchange for “mineral and strategic commodities” will likely include palm oil, nickel and coal, a presidential spokesperson said as the government makes preparations to launch the bourse on Jan 1,…
Read MoreBears QB Tyson Bagent is a player to watch
Tyson Bagent is starting to look like a little more than a typical backup quarterback for the Chicago Bears. The more he plays, the more comfortable he appears, and that could become a valuable development for a team that has Caleb Williams at the top. Ben Johnson, of course, gets credit for Bagent’s progress. The…
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