VENICE, Aug 28, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Globetrotting filmmaker Werner Herzog, an eclectic risk-taker whose monumental works often explore humankind's conflict with nature, was honoured with a special award on Wednesday at the Venice Film Festival. The 82-year-old arthouse giant, who helped launch New German Cinema in the 1960s, received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement ahead of the debut of his latest documentary, "Ghost Elephants," about a lost herd in Angola, on Thursday. He was handed a special winged Golden Lion statue by "The Godfather" director and friend Francis Ford Coppola who praised the German's "limitless creativity". "I have always tried to strive for something that goes deeper beyond what you normally see in movie theatres, a deep form of...
VENICE, Aug 28, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - The Venice Film Festival kicked off Wednesday with Hollywood royalty arriving for Italy's glitzy movie showcase where a strong...
VENICE, Aug 28, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Hollywood stars and Netflix are set to take the spotlight Thursday on the second day of the prestigious Venice...
CHISINAU, Aug 28, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - The leaders of France, Germany and Poland all expressed their support for Moldova's EU bid on Wednesday, slamming Russian...
VENICE, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Protesters against Israel's invasion of Gaza held a banner saying "Free Palestine" and "Stop the Genocide" outside the Venice...
DHAKA, August 28, 2025 (BSS) - Director General (DG) of Bangladesh Ansar, Major General Abdul Motaleb Sajjad Mahmud, has said the upazila and thana-level Ansar...
MEXICO CITY, Aug 28, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Wednesday said she would ask the United States to share the $15 billion...
BEIJING, Aug 28, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - China said Thursday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will attend a huge military parade in Beijing on...
ROME, Aug 28, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Pope Leo XIV said Wednesday he was "profoundly saddened" by a shooting in a US church that killed two...
WASHINGTON, Aug 28, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - US President Donald Trump's move to oust Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook marks a direct attempt to politicize the...
MUNICH, Germany, Aug 28, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Harry Kane scored a last-gasp winner to spare Bayern Munich's blushes in a dramatic 3-2 victory at third-tier...
PLYMOUTH, United Kingdom, Aug 28, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - When veteran fisherman Brian Tapper checked his 1,200 crab pots in waters off southwest England during this...
KYIV, Ukraine, Aug 28, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Russian strikes on Kyiv on Thursday killed at least one person and wounded several others, officials in the...