While Beijing is known as the global capital of bicycle commute, and Venice, boat transport, capital is famous for its huge number of motorcycle taxis, a dubious distinction as many of them are substandard and often responsible for the high number of traffic accidents as well as air and noise pollution.

The Indus Valley Civilisation are credited with the invention of the button and the earliest one we have in existence today dates from around 2000BCE and is made from a curved shell. The first buttons were used as ornamental embellishments to a person’s attire and signified wealth or status.

Fang Shilong SBS MBE PMW (born 7 April 1954),known professionally in English as Jackie Chan and in Chinese as (Sing4 Lung4 in Jyutping, lit. “becoming the dragon”), is a Hong Kong actor, filmmaker, martial artist, and stuntman known for his slapstick acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, and innovative stunts, which he typically performs himself. Chan has been acting since the …

Arkın emerged in the golden age of Turkish cinema, in a period known as ‘Yeşilçam’, playing in around 300 films and television series, including Babaların Babası (1975) and historic drama series Kara Murat that immortalised his name as one of the greatest actors to hail from Türkiye.

When Omar bin Laden feels depressed, he watches Unforgiven, that classic American Western film about a reformed outlaw, played by Clint Eastwood, who gives up the serenity of farming life for one last foray into his violent past. Otherwise he paints. Landscapes, mostly: desert scenes of the Nile by moonlight or the untamed American West; dead trees and cattle skulls …

The streets of Victorian London has been brought to life in colourised images captured in the 1870s.The images, colourised by Photo Colouriser and Model Maker Tom Marshall, featured in the magazine ‘Street Life’ in London in 1876 and 1877, and portray the lives of those living in the poverty circle of the capital.

Born in the city of Babol and studied music in capital. He was trained in improvisation, orchestration, arrangement, quarter tone technique, and dastgah by various well-known violinists in homeland. Mortazavi started learning the violin under the supervision of Masoud Namazian when he was three years old. In a Nowruz 1991 interview with Alireza Amirghassemi on The Tapesh Show, Mortazavi claimed …

After the Break-up of Yugoslavia, the Islamic Republic of Iran focused its main political, economic, and military orientation on the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The main reason that Iran found space in this country was because of the Islamist orientation of the “Mladi Muslimani” group (Young Muslims), especially with the last representatives of this group, such as Alija Izetbegovic. …

For Bella and Gigi Hadid, physical transformations are simply part of the job. The sisters have undergone countless since becoming top models, but the makeover that Marc Jacobs gave them on Monday for his show in New York City really takes the cake. In fact, you’d be forgiven for failing to realize that they were among the cast who presented …

Antony John Blinken (born April 16, 1962) is an American government official and diplomat serving as the 71st United States secretary of state since January 26, 2021. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under President Barack Obama.During the Clinton administration, Blinken served in the State …