The Studio turns Emmy newcomer record into a larger awards-night statement
Apple TV+’s The Studio set a new record for a first-season comedy series at the Emmys and tied the all-time comedy nomination mark.
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Every comedy writing nominee made Emmy history by including a woman on the team
Variety reported that, for the first time, every nominee in outstanding writing for a comedy series had at least one woman among its writers.
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Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen share Bob Hope Humanitarian Award in a first for the Emmys
The Television Academy chose the married actors for a lifetime-philanthropy honor that had never before gone to a couple.
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The Studio, The Pitt and Adolescence take top prizes on Emmy night
The 2025 Emmys spread major wins across comedy, drama and limited series, with The Studio, The Pitt and Adolescence all leaving with headline awards.
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Tramell Tillman breaks a long-running Emmy barrier with Severance win
Tillman became the first Black man to win outstanding supporting actor in a drama series, ending a category drought that lasted the Emmys’ entire history.
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Festival cancels Munich Philharmonic over Lahav Shani’s Israel stance
A Belgian festival withdrew the Munich Philharmonic after saying there was not enough clarity about conductor Lahav Shani’s position on the Israeli government.
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Pope canonizes Pier Giorgio Frassati in a ceremony focused on faith and social commitment
The Vatican added Pier Giorgio Frassati to the canonized saints, highlighting his links to charity, prayer and social justice.
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Jim Jarmusch's 'Father Mother Sister Brother' wins Venice's Golden Lion
The quietly humorous relationship film edged out some of the festival favorites, while the Gaza docudrama "The Voice of Hind Rajab" took the runner-up prize.
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Lost Ghislandi painting returned to Argentine authorities after surfacing in Mar del Plata
A Nazi-looted portrait by Giuseppe Vittore Ghislandi resurfaced on a real-estate listing before being handed to Argentine investigators.
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Prague archive finds the missing Švejk manuscripts after a century of misfiling
Museum staff uncovered original Jaroslav Hašek manuscripts that had been stored under the wrong archive folder for decades.
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Archaeologists Discover Ancient Tombs in Drought-Stricken Iraq
Dwindling water levels in the Mosul Dam reservoir have exposed approximately 40 ancient tombs, believed to date back over 2,300 years to the Hellenistic period.
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Gathering of Nations organizers say 2026 will be the final year for the Albuquerque powwow
Organizers say North America’s largest powwow will end after the 2026 edition, closing a 43-year run in Albuquerque.
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Pope Leo XIV Approves John Henry Newman as Doctor of the Church
The Vatican said the English cardinal and theologian would soon formally receive one of Catholicism’s highest titles for influential teaching.
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UNESCO adds 26 World Heritage sites in Paris and lifts the total to 1,248
The committee inscribed 26 new properties, extended two existing ones and again put African heritage at the center of the annual vote.
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Dalai Lama says the institution will continue after his death
The Dalai Lama confirmed that the institution of the Dalai Lama will continue and said his successor will be chosen through the traditional Tibetan process, not by Beijing.
Read report »Netherlands returns 119 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
The Netherlands returned 119 looted sculptures to Nigeria in one of the largest recent repatriations of Benin Bronzes.
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Yael van der Wouden and Rachel Clarke Win Women’s Prizes
Van der Wouden took the fiction award for debut novel The Safekeep, while Clarke received the nonfiction honour for The Story of a Heart.
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Javier Milei Receives Genesis Prize During Israel Visit
Argentina’s president became the award’s first non-Jewish recipient, recognised by organisers for his support of Israel.
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Maybe Happy Ending leads the 78th Tony Awards with six wins at Radio City Music Hall
At the 78th Tony Awards on 2025-06-08, the South Korean musical Maybe Happy Ending took six trophies, including best musical, in a night that also produced firsts for Cole Escola and Kara Young.
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Kyrgyzstan removes towering Lenin statue from Osh and replaces it with a flagpole
Kyrgyzstan has quietly removed a 23-metre Lenin statue from Osh, a monument that had dominated the city for 50 years and was thought to be the tallest Lenin statue in Central Asia.
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Taylor Swift buys back master recordings of her first six albums
The singer purchased her early catalogue from Shamrock Capital, gaining ownership of the original masters and associated videos, films, artwork, photographs and unreleased material.
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Namibia marks its first genocide remembrance day for Herero and Nama victims
The commemoration, held in Windhoek, centers on the mass killings carried out by German colonial forces between 1904 and 1908 and the long campaign for recognition and reparations.
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Heart Lamp wins the 2025 International Booker Prize in a first for a short story collection
Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi won the International Booker Prize on 2025-05-20 for Heart Lamp, a Kannada-language collection that became the first short story collection ever to take the award.
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Lost Magna Carta Manuscript Discovered at Harvard Law Library
A document long cataloged as an unofficial copy has been identified by medieval history professors as a rare, authentic 1300 original of the Magna Carta.
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