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Queen of Tears closes final chapter on top of buzzworthy drama rankings, Lovely Runner cemented as new favourite | Web Series
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Queen of Tears closes final chapter on top of buzzworthy drama rankings, Lovely Runner cemented as new favourite | Web Series

The much-awaited buzzworthy K-drama and actor rankings chart is finally out! Wrapping up the fourth week of April, the Good Data Corporation's recently revealed weekly list weighed the buzz generated by ongoing TV dramas and the hold their cast members had on the audience. Queen of Tears and its leading cast duo Kim Soo Hyun and Kim Ji Won dominated the most buzzworthy drama and actor list. The Lovely Runner team (Byeon Woo Seok and Kim Hye Yoon) trailed close behind at the second spot in April Week 4.(tvN) tvN's Queen of Tears, which has now stolen the title of the king of record-breaking streaks, once again dominated the final April week list. With both lists of the most buzzworthy dramas and actors commanded by the Queen of Tears team, the 16-episode-long romantic comedy conclu...
TIME100 Health: Melanie Ward | TIME
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TIME100 Health: Melanie Ward | TIME

The U.K.-based nonprofit Medical Aid for Palestinians was founded 40 years ago to improve health care for all Palestinian people. So when war between Israel and Hamas broke out in the fall of 2023, CEO Melanie Ward knew her group would need to respond. “This is what the organization was built for,” she says.Ward and her team started working immediately following Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, arranging for Medical Aid for Palestinians’ warehouses in Gaza to begin distributing more than $500,000 worth of medical supplies over the next two days in anticipation of an Israeli response. Since then, the group has provided food, hygiene kits, blankets, mattresses, and around $7 million in medical supplies to people in Gaza. It has also sent six teams of international health care workers into Gaz...
Brits, Burberry and the Biennale! Inside the British Pavilion opening
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Brits, Burberry and the Biennale! Inside the British Pavilion opening

Outside, a queue of smartly dressed punters were fighting for a blue knight on horseback logo stamp, and inside tuna tartare, artichokes and greasy, delicious ham-and-cheese toasties were eagerly passed around. Those who made it in the building were faced with London’s art honchos — Tristram Hunt, director of the V&A; curator Victoria Broackes; and Victoria Siddall, the board director of Frieze, all present. Plus, Bianca Brandolini d’Adda, the model and Italian aristo; bright young things Sydney Lima, Rhea Dillon and Isaac Benigson; and, of course, Burberry’s creative director, Daniel Lee, were all along for the ride. Source link
TIME100 Health: Joel Habener, Dan Drucker, Svetlana Mojsov and Jens Juul Holst
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TIME100 Health: Joel Habener, Dan Drucker, Svetlana Mojsov and Jens Juul Holst

Newly powerful weight-loss drugs became the biggest story in health in the past year—and Dr. Jens Juul Holst, Dr. Joel Habener, Svetlana Mojsov, and Dr. Daniel Drucker played pivotal roles in making those medications possible. The scientists conducted the early work, beginning in the 1970s, on glucagon-like peptides, or GLPs, that first transformed the treatment of diabetes and now that of obesity. As with many groundbreaking medical developments, it was a group effort. Holst, at the University of Copenhagen (where he’s now professor of endocrinology and metabolism), noticed that after intestinal surgery, patients’ levels of insulin soared while their blood-sugar levels dropped; he attributed the changes to several gut-related hormones, including glucagon, which is made in the pancreas. Ar...
Ayan Mukerji schools paparazzo as he gets clicked with Raha Kapoor. Watch | Bollywood
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Ayan Mukerji schools paparazzo as he gets clicked with Raha Kapoor. Watch | Bollywood

Actors Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt's one-year-old daughter Raha Kapoor's latest appearance is with her filmmaker-uncle Ayan Mukerji. Ayan was seen carrying Raha in his arms in a Mumbai locality. He even schooled the paparazzo for capturing them. (Also Read – Ranbir Kapoor to gift new ₹250 cr bungalow to Raha Kapoor, making her youngest and richest star kid in Bollywood: Report) Ayan Mukerji with Raha Kapoor Ayan with RahaA Bollywood portal shared a video on Instagram in which Ayan, wearing a blue t-shirt and white shorts, is seen carrying Raha in his arms. She's dressed in a white shirt and pants, with green prints on it. As soon as Ayan realises they're being captured on camera, he schools the paparazzo and requests them not to shoot them. When the paparazzo doesn't oblige, Ayan...
London mayoral election: what are the candidates’ key policies?
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London mayoral election: what are the candidates’ key policies?

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan urged young people to vote on May 2 (Stefan Rousseau/PA)PA WireMayor since 2016, previously Labour MP for Tooting. Former lawyer, married with two adult daughters. Political pugilist who finds it hard to resist a verbal punch-up with the Tories. Often deflects criticism of his record by blaming the Government. Seeking to be first London mayor to serve three terms.Policy: Free school meals for primary school childrenWhat’s achievable? Introduced as a one-year “emergency” measure to ease the cost of living crisis, free school meals proved so popular that Mr Khan wants to make them permanent. What’s unspoken is that he would have faced a political backlash had he axed them. But the £140 million annual cost — currently drawn from City Hall reserves and business rates...
Vivek Agnihotri lauds Pak doctor who criticised Bhansali’s Heeramandi: Bollywood has tendency to romanticise courtesans | Web Series
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Vivek Agnihotri lauds Pak doctor who criticised Bhansali’s Heeramandi: Bollywood has tendency to romanticise courtesans | Web Series

Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri has praised a Pakistani doctor who criticised Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar. Taking to X (formerly Twitter), Vivek said Bollywood has the "tendency to romanticise courtesans and brothels". He also questioned the freedom of creativity. (Also Read | Heeramandi: Netizens point out these historical inaccuracies in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's series) Vivek Agnihotri spoke about Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Heeramandi. Vivek lauds person who criticised HeeramandiSharing Hamd Nawaz's tweets, Vivek wrote, "A brilliant critique by @_SophieSchol. I haven’t seen the show, but I have visited Heeramandi in Lahore a few times. Bollywood has this tendency to romanticize courtesans and brothels. It’s a sad commentary because brothels have never been place...
TIME100 Health: Alex Oshmyansky | TIME
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TIME100 Health: Alex Oshmyansky | TIME

Sometimes all it takes is a cold email to start a revolution. Dr. Alex Oshmyansky, a radiologist who had become incensed by the runaway prices of prescription drugs, decided to email billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who famously makes his contact info public. He included a business plan for a small company he had created in 2018 that made drugs and sold them at cost. Intrigued, Cuban responded in five minutes, and was quickly drawn in by Oshmyansky’s passion and outrage over how consumers were getting “ripped off.” Cuban provided an initial investment and his name, and Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Co. was launched in 2022. The name is as transparent as the company’s mission—which involves selling more than 2,500 generic medications at cost, plus 15% to cover shipping and han...
Fashion news! Sydney Sweeney swaps trousers for heels, Mercedes gets chic and Armani’s London exhibition
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Fashion news! Sydney Sweeney swaps trousers for heels, Mercedes gets chic and Armani’s London exhibition

I moved here in 1984 and it was crazy. I had been working for Interview Magazine in New York and I came to shoot the scene happening in London. There was this cultural explosion happening with Leigh Bowery, Trojan and Michael Clark and Culture Club. We were in Taboo, and I fell in with people like Princess Julia, Jeffrey Hinton, John Maybury, the director, and Stevie and David from BodyMap. I was sleeping on their couches, I had no idea they were at the epicentre of creative London. I thought I’d seen it all in New York, but London was next level wildness. I learnt an important lesson in those years: a sense of originality. If you copied someone else's work you were looked down upon. It was not cool. Everyone had their own creative voice — today, so much is made from mood boards off Instag...
The Great Indian Kapil Show: Sunny Deol and Bobby Deol get emotional talking about finding success after long struggle | Bollywood
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The Great Indian Kapil Show: Sunny Deol and Bobby Deol get emotional talking about finding success after long struggle | Bollywood

The latest episode of The Great Indian Kapil Show had Sunny Deol and Bobby Deol as guests. Sunny and Bobby talked about the hugely successful year they had in 2023, where Sunny's Gadar 2 became a blockbuster, while Bobby's antagonistic role in Animal garnered him widespread attention. There was also Dharmendra's much-loved turn in Rocky Aur Rocky Kii Prem Kahaani. (Also read: The Great Indian Kapil Show will return with season 2, confirms Kiku Sharda) Sunny Deol and Bobby Deol were the guests on the new episode of The Great Indian Kapil Show. What Bobby saidIn the episode, Bobby began by reflecting on the past year. He said in Hindi, “I am happy about the fact that my brother waited for 22 years after Gadar. And in the same year, first it was my father's film [Rocky Aur Rani Kii P...