A model is a person with a role either to promote, display or advertise commercial products (notably fashion clothing in fashion shows), or to serve as a visual aid for people who are creating works of art or to pose for photography. Read More »
Abbas Kiarostami (22 June 1940 – 4 July 2016) was a film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer. An active film-maker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in the production of over forty films, including shorts and documentaries. Read More »
Rap star Nicki Minaj will perform in Saudia Arabia later this month, organisers of the Jeddah Season cultural festival announced, as the ultraconservative kingdom tries to shed decades of restrictions on entertainment. Saudi organisers said at a press conference Wednesday that Minaj, whose real name is Onika Tanya Maraj, will headline the festival on July 18. Read More »
Washington always puts on a show for the Fourth of July, but this year President Donald Trump added his own Independence Day event.The “Salute to America” ceremony, held at the Lincoln Memorial, featured military flyovers, music and a speech from the President himself. Read More »
Ivanka Trump has become an ironic internet Carmen Sandiego. She’s popped up in The Last Supper, at the Yalta Conference alongside Winston Churchill, in the opening credits of Friends, on the Abbey Road album cover, on Mount Rushmore. Sometimes, like when she’s photobombing Dust Bowl migrants, she’s flashing a big cheesy grin. Other times, like at President Lyndon B. Johnson’s ... Read More »
Sanandaj is the capital of Kurdistan Province. With a population of 414,069, Sanandaj is the twenty third largest city and the second largest Kurdish city. Sanandaj’s founding is fairly recent, (about 400 years ago), yet under its short existence it has grown to become a center of Kurdish culture. Read More »
“Shahrdokht” is the first leisure and cultural collection for young and student girls, aimed at providing girls with services such as resorts, amphitheaters, art galleries, sports clubs, libraries, trimming and makeup, photographic studios. Read More »
Princess Haya Bint al-Hussein, a wife of the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum, has left her husband – a highly unusual move for a senior royal in the UAE.The princess is now said to be hiding in a townhouse in central London.She was conspicuously absent from Royal Ascot this year, despite being an Olympic rider and a regular ... Read More »
Dutch architecture firm MVRDV completed the townhouse’s partially see-through facade back in 2016, using hundreds of specially-engineered glass bricks and a transparent high-strength glue. Read More »
Across most of the United States, climate change is expected to affect fresh and marine water resources in ways that will increase people’s exposure to water-related contaminants that cause illness. Water-related illnesses include waterborne diseases caused by pathogens, such as bacteria, viruses, and protozoa. Read More »