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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain International aid for pre-primary education has fallen further behind an agreed 10% spending target since the COVID-19 outbreak, according to new research. The report, compiled by academics at the University of Cambridge for the global children's charity, Theirworld, highlights "continued, chronic"…

Cr. Maria Heras/Netflix © 2023. For a company that seems to have limitless amounts of cash at its disposal to hire the best and brightest talents has to offer with the promise of creative freedom, Netflix still can’t seem to master the art of making an above-average blockbuster movie, with The Mother exploding out of the blocks to become the platform’s number one movie. Setting the wrong kind of couple goals, Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck both saw their latest features release yesterday, and each of their…

Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2023 Netflix has been doing a decent enough job of enforcing its desire to build as many in-house franchises as humanly possible, but it would be beneficial if the majority of them were actually any good. There’s no accounting for taste and personal preference, though, with royalist sequel Royalteen: Princess Margrethe currently one of the platform’s biggest hits. Per FlixPatrol, the second installment in the unlikely Norwegian teen drama series has cracked the Top 10 in 66 countries…

Image via TriStar Pictures In the modern age of cinema, it’s quickly become a recurring theme where flashy remakes are often criticized and heavily examined due to attempts to recreate the success of their original predecessor. And while the majority of these films are absolutely bashed by critics and audiences alike, it’s worth noting that 2013’s Evil Dead re-imagining pummeled through the box office with a mighty vengeance. Although, its over-the-top gore continues to be placed under the microscope even 10…

India has proposed to a UN ad hoc committee that all signatory member nations allow other countries to request phone, email and other subscriber information as well as traffic data of their residents necessary in some specific cybercrime investigations and proceedings, sources told ET.The idea of the proposal, a senior government official said, was to develop a process that will help in cybercrime investigation and provide speedy access to data given the increasing pace of cybercrimes globally.“The proposals are at a very…

via Netflix For a streaming service happy to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in a star-studded Hollywood blockbuster, it’s ironic that many of Netflix’s best and most successful original actioners tend to be international productions made for a fraction of the cost, with France’s AKA merely the latest. Following on in the footsteps of genre bedfellows like Vietnam’s bone-rattling prequel Furies and rip-roaring Indonesian action comedy The Big 4, director Morgan S. Dalibert’s fairly routine-sounding story…

Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered a new species of ancient reptile in central Wyoming and named it in the language of the First Nations people indigenous to the area where it was found.The Western United States, from Texas to Montana, has always been a good place to dig up fossils that are representative of Earth’s ancient ecosystems.The new fossil samples were collected from the Popo Agie Formation, a geological formation that includes Wyoming’s Southern Bighorn Mountains and part of…

You will soon be able to catch a breath of fresh air in downtown Portland. The city is planning to establish a zero-emission delivery zone to promote a safe and cleaner way of moving goods in the area. The project will be the first in the nation of its kind. Oregon’s largest city, Portland, is home to over 650,000 people (with over 2.5 million in the metro area). With plentiful parks, bike paths, and hiking trails, Portland is perhaps best known for its eco-friendliness and sustainable…

Cr. Sasidis Sasisakulporn/Netflix © 2022 Sometimes, audiences have no interest in watching anything groundbreaking, demanding, or thought-provoking, with the cinematic equivalent of comfort food and a warm hug taking precedence. Fortunately for those with a taste for the formulaic, Netflix released A Tourist’s Guide to Love at exactly the right time. Rachel Leigh Cook stars as a high-flying travel executive dealing with a breakup that came right out of the blue, which leads her to accept an undercover…

netflix The murder mystery has been riding the crest of a wave as one of the entertainment industry’s hottest genres, while horror is going through a purple patch of its own. So what happens when you combine the two and throw in some nostalgia for the 1990s into the bargain? Netflix’s newest original smash hit Phenomena, which is off to a fantastic start. Per FlixPatrol, the Spanish-language supernatural comedy with a whodunnit twist ranks as the seventh most-watched feature on the streaming service’s worldwide…