He once played guitar in a band called Ugly Rumours and hosted Britpop's leading lights in 10 Downing Street.

Now former UK prime minister Tony Blair is the s

The pandemic has shuttered concert halls around much of the globe, but that hasn't stopped musical theater aficionados from flexing their creative muscles - on

Promotional material of Tianguancifu Photo: Sina Weibo

Many web novels about romances between two men are being adapted into TV dramas that will be shot or air

Kim Ki-duk Photo:VCG

World-renowned South Korean film director Kim Ki-duk, who won the top Golden Lion prize at the 2012 Venice Film Festival but later faced a

Ye Lifeng (second from right), lets out a wail of grief as her husband Zhang Ronggao (left), the father of slain Chinese scholar Zhang Yingying, reads a stateme

Promotion material for Shangganling Photo: Courtesy of Shi Liu
A theater drama version of the film Battle on Shangganling Mountain, Shangganling, kicked off the

Painting Ruqin Lake from Chinese artist Song Yuelin on display at the National Art Museum of China Photo: Courtesy of Song Yuelin
A number of watercolor and ink

A tourist takes a selfie as she rides in an all-terrain vehicle for a tour to visit contaminated ships, which were once used to fight the fire at the notorious

Dancers rehearse for the show Esencia in Madrid on Thursday. Photo: AFP Spanish flamenco dancer Joaquin Cortes Photo: AFP
Music and dance as a healing balm for

Promotional material for Knight on Debris Photo: Courtesy of Zhou Zhou
An ambitious and promising sci-fi animation will be released on Chinese streaming platfor

A teacher instructs children on recognizing grain crops at a kindergarten in Hefei, east China's Anhui Province, Oct. 15, 2020. A number of primary schools and

A woman poses for photos with a Doraemon figure at the "Doraemon's Time-Travelling Adventures in Singapore" exhibition held at the National Museum of Singapore

Chinese director Yi Xiaoxing's latest comedy Bath Buddy is set to make audiences laugh when it debuts on Friday in Chinese mainland cinemas, which have now retu

Innovation has always been a hallmark of musician Damon Albarn and illustrator Jamie Hewlett's cartoon band Gorillaz, and now they are aiming to pull off someth

Chilean cherries Photo: ICMore than 60 million boxes of Chilean cherries are destined for China this season, as the fruit becomes a symbol of growing trade ties

Longshou Canal and Ancient Luohe River Irrigation District in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province. File photo: VCG
Chinese netizens celebrated after China's Mini

Photo: VCG
C-pop boy band Teens in Times (TNT) dropped a new single on Tuesday that netizens speculate contains a message taking aim at an accusation by South K

Argentine street artist Alfredo Segatori uses a lift to paint a mural of late Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona in Buenos Aires on December 1. Photo: AFPTr

A staff member poses with a dinosaur skeleton at the Fantastic Beasts: The Wonder of Nature exhibition at the Natural History Museum in London on Monday. Photo:

A man uses a food vending machine in Paris, France Photo: AFPWith business selling chocolate bars to office workers in meltdown owing to the COVID-19 crisis, Fr

Poster of the film Monster Hunter Photo: WeiboChinese moviegoers have said they will not accept the apology from the director and one of the co-stars of the Hol

Promotional material for Homeland Photo: Courtesy of China National Traditional OrchestraHomeland, an original musical by China National Traditional Orchestra,

Mourners sang and laid flowers Tuesday on Central Park's candlelit memorial to John Lennon on the 40th anniversary of his murder in New York City, as his widow

A couple is seen at the Cotton Tree Drive Marriage Registry in Hong Kong, Mar. 29, 2020. (Photo: China News Service/ Zhang Wei)The artificial intelligence (AI)

Performers sing for the passengers on a high-speed train G5033 running on the newly opened Nanchang-Ganzhou high-speed railway, Dec. 26, 2019. A high-speed rail