Spectacular lightning show seen from Ontario, Canada
A spectacular lightning show was seen from Ontario, Canada, on April 7. Footage filmed by @TJsupercell shows the bolts streaking and illuminating the night's sky.
A spectacular lightning show was seen from Ontario, Canada, on April 7. Footage filmed by @TJsupercell shows the bolts streaking and illuminating the night's sky.
In a sign of the slowly increasing strength of the domestic box office, Warner Bros./Legendary’s “Godzilla vs. Kong” has reached $60 million in domestic grosses after 10 days in theaters, passing the U.S. theatrical run of “Tenet” to become the highest grossing domestic film since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. While the film is facing a significant dropoff from its strong five-day opening — the $3.88 million grossed yesterday is a 67% drop from last Friday — its ability to sell out theaters stuck at a 25% audience capacity limit due to COVID safety restrictions has renewed efforts by the movie theater industry to increase the number of theaters reopened and to lobby state health officials to increase the capacity limit to 50% or higher, as has already been the case in Los Angeles, San Francisco and all theaters in Texas. As of last weekend, approximately 3,000 theaters in the U.S. have reopened. It is unclear how many of the roughly 2,000 theaters that have not reopened will be able to do so as a significant number are expected to have been forced out of business for good by the pandemic. COVID-19 variants have also halted the reopening process in Canada and are also providing similar problems in American hotspots like Michigan and the New York City/tri-state area. Given the steep drop this weekend, it is looking like an uphill battle for “Godzilla vs Kong” to become the first film to gross over $100 million in the U.S. since the start of the pandemic. But it is on pace to become the first Hollywood film to cross $400 million globally since “Bad Boys for Life” over a year ago. When it hits that milestone in the coming week, it will have passed the $365 million earned by “Tenet” last fall, when theaters in Europe and Asia were starting to reopen while their American counterparts struggled to do the same. Currently, “Godzilla vs. Kong” is enjoying robust turnout from Asian markets like China that have returned to full strength but has not been able to release in most areas of Europe, where COVID-19 variants are causing widespread outbreaks. To date, only two films have grossed over $500 million at the global box office, both coming from an explosive Lunar New Year holiday in China. “Detective Chinatown 3” was first with a $686 million global gross, but was quickly surpassed by the time travel film “Hi, Mom,” which grossed $821 million almost entirely from Chinese moviegoers. Read original story ‘Godzilla vs Kong’ Passes ‘Tenet’ to Become U.S. Box Office’s Top Pandemic Film At TheWrap
The actor has long teased his interest in politics. Now the public is weighing in.
Gun salutes echo in Edinburgh and London as the military pay solemn tribute to Queen Elizabeth II's husband, Prince Philip, following his death aged 99. Meanwhile, Londoners gather outside Buckingham Palace to lay flowers.
The British Broadcasting Corporation said on Saturday it had received complaints about the amount of coverage it dedicated to the death of Prince Philip after some viewers were upset that normal programming was cancelled. The BBC interrupted normal programming on radio and television a few minutes after Buckingham Palace announced at midday on Friday that Philip had died, and many scheduled programmes were scrapped for the rest of the day to make way for coverage of his death. "We're receiving complaints about too much TV coverage of the death of HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh," the BBC's complaints web page said.
23% of those that responded to its survey said they have been hit ‘very negatively’, whilst the other 43% ‘slightly’.
The Australian photographer and actress June Newton — also known under her pseudonym Alice Springs — has died at 97, the Helmut Newton Foundation said Saturday in Berlin. Newton, who was also the wife of the late photographer Helmut Newton, died Friday in her home in Monte Carlo. “We mourn the loss of an outstanding person and internationally recognized photographer,” the foundation wrote on its website.
Details of the death toll in the town of Bago, 90 km (55 miles) northeast of Yangon, were not initially available because security forces piled up bodies in the Zeyar Muni pagoda compound and cordoned off the area, according to witnesses and domestic media outlets. The AAPP and Myanmar Now news outlet said on Saturday that 82 people were killed during the protest against the Feb. 1 military coup in the country.
Italy's Lorenzo Sonego staved off a fightback from second-seeded American Taylor Fritz and will meet defending champion Laslo Djere of Serbia in the final of the ATP tournament in Cagliari on Saturday.
Portland could be without two players and its coach in a future game.
YouTube star Logan Paul takes credit for partly fueling the sudden resurgence of interest in Pokemon.
The U.S. Department of Justice has dropped its challenge to a court decision that said the federal government could not force two Rhode Island cities to turn local police into federal immigration agents. Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza and Central Falls Mayor Maria Rivera said in a news release that the Justice Department dropped the appeal from the Republican administration of former President Donald Trump, The Providence Journal reported Friday.
The Mayor of Windsor has paid tribute to Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, following his death aged 99. Councillor John Story said the Duke was an "enormous part of Windsor life" and will be "remembered very fondly by the people of Windsor". .
Residents of the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent on Saturday woke to rumbling noises emanating from the La Soufriere volcano that spectacularly erupted a day earlier, while a thin layer of ash coated rooftops, cars and roads. A Reuters witness in the island's capital city of Kingstown said the volcano continued to vent clouds of ash and rumble on Saturday morning, while videos from the island showed a ghost-like landscape, with empty streets and hazy skies. Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves, who ordered the evacuation of residents close to the eruption, is expected on Saturday to tour rescue shelters that have imposed limits on the number of evacuees they take due to COVID-19 protocols.
Opening batsman Aiden Markram and stand-in captain Heinrich Klaasen made hard-hitting half-centuries for South Africa in the first Twenty20 international against Pakistan at the Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg on Saturday.
A giant new statue of Christ being constructed in southern Brazil will rise even higher than the iconic Christ the Redeemer statue that overlooks Rio de Janeiro.
Violence continued on the streets of Belfast, Northern Ireland, following heightened tensions in the region over a mix of factors including Brexit, policing issues and anger about the lack of prosecution for Sinn Fein politicians who allegedly broke coronavirus restrictions.
A 3,400-year-old "lost" city was unveiled in Egypt's Luxor on Saturday (April 10), a find which archaeologists hail as the most significant since the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb."I call it lost city because it was lost, no one really believed that the city could exist here."Renowned Egyptologist Zahi Hawass and a team originally began searching for a mortuary temple in September.Within weeks, they found mud brick formations in every direction and eventually unearthed the well-preserved city."Three main districts, one area for storage, we found a big area for the storage of making sandals, also sewing clothing, precious stones for making necklaces and bracelets; pottery tells us about the relation of Egypt with the New Kingdom. We think that this is the beginning of the discovery."According to historical references the site once housed three palaces of Amenhotep III, the ninth king of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt, alongside the empire's administrative and industrial center.It has almost complete walls and rooms filled with tools of daily life, along with rings, scarabs, and coloured pottery, all shedding light on the day-to-day lives of ancient Egyptians.
Gun salutes were held on the UK’s Royal Navy vessels and in areas across the United Kingdom, on Saturday, April 10, to mark the death of Prince Philip at the age of 99.The Ministry of Defence released footage of the frigate HMS Montrose performing a 41 gun salute in Duqm, Oman.The BBC said 41 gun salutes were fired by ceremonial 3lb guns at Portsmouth and Devonport Naval Bases and aboard destroyer HMS Diamond in UK waters.Batteries fired 41 rounds at one round every minute from midday in cities including London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast, as well as Royal Navy warships, the Evening Standard reported. Credit: Ministry of Defence via Storyful
The relationship between Bayern Munich coach Hansi Flick and sports director Hasan Salihamidzic has broken down to such an extent that one may be forced to leave, according to club legends Lothar Matthaeus and Stefan Effenberg.
Since primary school teacher Khalaf al-Samara fled fighting last year and took refuge in a tent in a camp for displaced people in northwestern Syria, he no longer works, struggles to support his family, and has fallen into depression. A few days before Ramadan, he says he fears the holy month, as he is no longer able to afford festive meals for the breaking of the fast.