The Eiffel Tower was still standing, the River Seine was flowing away to the sea and the traffic still clogged the Peripherique -- and Rafael Nadal still ruled Roland Garros on Tuesday.
Images from Day 1 of the Australian Open in Melbourne on Monday.
The couple said that that they were strolling near the railway station at the Fatehpur Sikri after a day in Agra when the group started following them and later attacked.
Dina Asher-Smith seized her golden opportunity to win the World Championship 200 metres on Wednesday and become the first British woman to claim a global sprint title.
Factbox on Serbia's Novak Djokovic who won his sixth Australian Open men's singles title on Sunday.
A young Arnold Schwarzenegger in swimwear, Cary Grant setting airport chic standards, a socialite even the Kardashians can't keep with and other vintage moments from the film festival on La Croisette!
Raja Sen's favourite bits from what was, overall, a glitzy but forgettable awards show.
When compared to the 1960 original, The Magnificent Seven thrills only sporadically, says Dhruv Munjal.
Photos from Day 1 of the Australian Open matches played at Melbourne Park on Monday
It seems to be a Tom Hanks and Cate Blanchett show all the way!
A quick look at the winners.
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Revolver Rani could have been the movie of the year. It ended up as a confused film that can't decide who, or what it wants to concentrate on instead, says Paloma Sharma.
These characters have entertained us despite the fact that they do not have any name at all.
'Maneesh Sharma's Fan should be good. It will have Shah Rukh doing something entirely different from what he has been doing recently.'
The film's mechanics and motivations are laughable, says Raja Sen.
Five weeks after he seized the Labor Party leadership, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Sunday set September 7 as the date for the country's next parliamentary elections amid growing unemployment and budget deficit.
'When I least expect it, I start to find traces of India in foreign lands.'
Mad Max: Fury Road has a very realistic chance of sweeping the Oscars, predicts Raja Sen.
Rangoon haunts in unlikely fashion and, while the director's most straightforward picture, holds enough of its own marvels to justify multiple viewings,' notes Raja Sen.
Happy 60th Birthday, Bruce Willis.
The Revenant is a devastating, visually jawdropping film that, for all its sins of tedium, makes up with scale what it lacks in artfulness, feels Raja Sen.
Factbox on Serbia's Novak Djokovic and Great Britain's Andy Murray who will contest his sixth Australian Open men's singles final on Sunday.
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'It is impossible to get any of the top five movie stars in Bollywood for an honest one-on-one interview, which spans beyond seven minutes unless your media house has a marketing tie-up with the movie they are part of. Even then, they will rarely ever want to go outside their comfort zone and open up.'
Sarao was described as a fun guy, outgoing and talkative by other members of the tight knit South Asian community.
'When I started off the process for Kaabil, we were making the character sympathetic as he is blind.' 'Just looking at him and his environment, you would say, 'Arrey bechara'.' 'But meeting blind people, I realised there is no essence of helplessness in them.'
Quentin Tarantino's latest film is his most unpleasant, feels Raja Sen.
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Bombay Velvet is an obviously shallow film, an all-out retro masala-movie with homage on the rocks and cocktail-shakers brimming with cliche.
What happened within the last 40 years that turned this society from secular democratic to Hindu right-wing that clench their collective fists of spiritual nobility against the fictional enemy that never was? The internet happened, says Vinay Menon.
'Movie plots clearly don't excite director Dileesh Pothan as much as true stories where life had come dizzyingly close to becoming like a movie and then, had fused back with life.' 'This means that a conversation he overhears at a tea shop is more likely to give Pothan a setting for his next picture than a brainstorming session inside a conference room,' says Sreehari Nair.
Raja Sen lists his favourite moments.
The SuperBat movie could be a massive letdown, but it won't be because of Ben Affleck, believes Raja Sen.
'Why is it that we are so forgiving of the glaring problems in grand multi-starrers like Dil Dhadakne Do,' asks Sreehari Nair, 'but when a small film with a truly personal vision seeks our approval, we analyse it through a prism of formal perfection?' 'With its Seinfeldian humour, episodic structure and performers who play off each other's energies, Meeruthiya Gangsters goes farther than most Hindi movies.'
Martin Scorsese's The Wolf Of Wall Street could set a bad precedent, feels Aseem Chhabra.
'On Sunday against South Africa, Shikhar Dhawan took the spotlight and eventually, the Man of the Match award, with a century, but it was Ajinkya Rahane's innings that held the key to India topping the 300 mark.' Prem Panicker's match report card, for Rediff.com.
It is always wonderful to discover a gem of film at an international film festival. It is even more exciting when that film is from India.
'The starting point of the Udta Punjab casting was that we didn't think stars would do a film like this, so we'd take non-stars. As the names kept rolling in and we had Kareena Kapoor and Shahid and Alia Bhatt, I was like yaar yeh ho kya raha hai?'
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