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NRI boy wins BBC's Junior Mastermind

A 10-year-old Indian boy has emerged as the youngest champion in the history of a BBC quiz show, Junior Mastermind. David Verghese, who made it to the BBC1 show finals sailing through the heats,......

'Get your knee off our necks!': Americans remember Floyd

Thousands of Americans carrying placards reading "black lives matter" and raising slogans such as "no justice, no peace" took to the streets in many United States cities, demonstrating peacefully......

Protests sweep US

Nine days after George Floyd's death, protesters are still out on the streets of major cities across America. The 46 year old was killed when a white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly......

REWIND: Best moments from June

Black Lives Matter protests and coronavirus rages across the pandemic and much more. Here are the top images from the month of June. IMAGE: Nurses Sasha Dubois and Farah Fevrin kneel for......

'May the Fourth be with you!' Fans celebrate Star Wars Day

May 4 is the official ‘unofficial’ holiday for Star Wars aficionados. A cosplayer dressed as "Star Wars" character Yoda looks at a mobile phone at a Star Wars Day fan event which is......

Cinema halls going digital!

Filmmaker George Lucas is a Hollywood visionary. He was the first to make use of computers in film-making and special effects in "Star Wars" and was the first to shoot motion pictures digitally......

Indian company to convert Star Wars into 3D

Star Wars fans can rejoice. George Lucas' epic space opera film, Star Wars: Episode 1, The Phantom Menace is being given a new lease of life in 3D by an Indian visual effects company, Prime......

Tech firms owe debt to Star Wars creator

After filming the first Star Wars movie with special effects far from special, George Lucas spent millions to develop a complete digital editing system to populate his sequels with armies of X-wing......

Star Wars creator sets up Asian base

Lucasfilm Ltd, the company floated by Star Wars creator George Lucas, has set up a new studio in Singapore, said a Cinescape Online report.The new venture, Lucasfilm Animation Singapore, will......

How Steve Jobs got back his company

It was a stinging blow for Steve Jobs when a boardroom power struggle ousted him from Apple, the company he co-founded as a 21-year-old. A friend was so concerned over what the distraught Jobs......

Galactic Achievement Award for George Lucas

Star Wars fans belong to a whole different breed, and normality is usually beyond their imaginative grasp. So a lifetime achievement Oscar won't quite do for the geek's filmmaking overlord.ShoWest,......

George Lucas strikes back with Revenge

The law of diminishing returns has not worked for the sixth and final Star Wars movie, Episode III Revenge Of The Sith. It is a livelier piece of work than the preceding two movies in the series,......

Star Wars creator George Lucas marries Mellody Hobson

Filmmaker George Lucas tied the knot with his long-time girlfriend, Mellody Hobson, in an intimate ceremony, on Skywalker Ranch in Marin County, California, on June 22.The Star Wars creator’s......

Lucas: 2 more Star Wars films

I don't like your sequel, so I'll makea fewmore. That's what George Lucas seems to feel. The billionaire creator of the Star Wars franchise has announced that there will be two more movies in the......

Star Wars maker returns with war film, Red Tails

Star Wars maker George Lucas is back with an all-black cast war film called Red Tails.The man behind the Star Wars and Indiana Jones mega hits that have grossed over $10 billion worldwide in the......

PIX: Chelsea rout Barcelona, Leverkusen stun Manchester City

A round-up of Tuesday's action in the UEFA Champions League. IMAGE: 18-year-old Estevao scores Chelsea's second goal with a piledriver during the UEFA Champions League match against Barcelona at......

PIX: De Bruyne scores as Napoli go top; Villareal win

IMAGES from football matches played across Europe on Sunday IMAGE: Napoli's Kevin De Bruyne scores their first goal from the penalty spot against Inter Milan in their Serie A match at Stadio Diego......

F1 PIX: Piastri celebrates 50th race with win from pole in Bahrain

IMAGE: McLaren's Oscar Piastri celebrates after winning the Bahrain Grand Prix at Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir, on Saturday. Photograph: Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters McLaren's Oscar Piastri......

PIX: Lyon earn dramatic draw with Man United; Spurs held

Images from the Europa League quarter-final matches on Thursday.Cherki stoppage-time strike earns Lyon draw IMAGE: Rayan Cherki celebrates scoring Olympique Lyonnais' second goal against Manchester......

Nations League PIX: Inspired Greece stun England; France thrash Israel

Images from the Nations League football match played on Thursday.Inspired Greece beat England for the first time IMAGE: Vangelis Pavlidis celebrates with teammates after scoring Greece's second......