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Christe Redemptor' (Christ the Saviour) from the 1983 album by the Benedictine Nuns of St Cecilia's Abbey, Isle of Wight, England. This sublime piece of Gregorian chant transports listeners to a realm of utter tranquility. The hymn, with its hauntingly beautiful melody and ethereal harmonies, captures the essence of divine reverence and contemplation.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. WASHINGTON—There was much to celebrate when House Speaker Mike Johnson walked into Mar-a-Lago to meet with President-elect Donald Trump just after the November election. But there was also pressing business, including a deadline to reach a government-spending deal.

Mufasa: The Lion King', directed by Oscar-winning Moonlight filmmaker Barry Jenkins, is a prequel to 2019's «live action» remake of The Lion King. The movie takes the viewers back to a time when Mufasa and Taka — as Scar was once known — were but young cubs roaming the plains together. The tale is told in flashback to Kiara (Blue Ivy Carter, making her acting debut), the young offspring of Simba (Donald Glover) and Nala (Beyoncé), who've left their daughter — and the rest of the movie — in the babysitting paws of Timon (Billy Eichner), Pumbaa (Seth Rogen) and the wise mandrill Rafiki (John Kani). Amid high anticipation, Mufasa: The Lion King opened to mixed reviews from the critics. However, the advance booking report for the opening day looked impressive. According to a tweet by trade analyst Sumit Kadel, Mufasa: The Lion King is expected to open to a whopping nett collection of somewhere between Rs 10-12 cr in India amid the Pushpa 2 craze, reports Filmibeat. ALSO READ: Amid Prince Harry-Meghan Markle divorce buzz, Duchess of Sussex's shocking allegation against King Charles, Queen Camilla

Lok Sabha was adjourned sine die, the House on Friday adopted a resolution recommending the two bills on holding simultaneous polls to a joint committee of the two Houses.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. As OpenAI and Google joust this December, with the former’s 12 Days of Innovation challenge, and the latter countering it with its Gemini 2 AI model, I look beyond these skirmishes to predict my Twelve Trends for AI going into 2025 and beyond. I will describe them over three columns.

“Bluey” is heading to the big screen

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Today Bangladesh is celebrating the 53rd anniversary of its liberation—a day I still remember vividly. I was then a student at the government inter-college, Prayagraj (then Allahabad).

A 7-year-old rivalry between tech leaders Elon Musk and Sam Altman over who should run OpenAI and best avoid an artificial intelligence ‘dictatorship’ is now heading to a federal judge

Three African leaders seeking to head the African Union have detailed their plans for regional security amid conflicts and political coups while strongly advocating for inter-Africa trade

President-elect Donald Trump is offering his support for the dockworkers union before their contract expires next month at Eastern and Gulf Coast ports

Transformers One has been released on digital platforms, allowing fans to enjoy the movie at home. The film explores the origins of iconic Transformers characters Optimus Prime and Megatron.

Vapi, a San Francisco-based startup that helps businesses deploy artificial intelligence-powered voice agents, said on Thursday it raised $20 million from investors, including Bessemer Venture Partners and Y Combinator, in an early-stage funding round. The fundraise valued Vapi at $130 million, according to a source familiar with the matter. Other investors in the round included Abstract Ventures, AI Grant, Saga Ventures and Michael Ovitz, who co-founded the influential Creative Artists Agency.

Donald Trump on Wednesday said he was picking Kari Lake, a former news anchor and a hardline Republican who failed to win an Arizona Senate seat last month, to be the director of U.S. government-funded media outlet Voice of America. Trump, in a post on his Truth Social site, said Lake will «ensure that the American values of Freedom and Liberty are broadcast around the World FAIRLY and ACCURATELY, unlike the lies spread by the Fake News Media.» Lake, a strong Trump supporter who has echoed his false claims about fraud at the 2020 election, also lost the governor's race in swing state Arizona in 2022 and was previously an anchor at Phoenix-based Fox 10.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. As Artificial intelligence (AI) gains currency as a tool to help businesses improve their operations, India's mid-sized software service providers are jumping at the opportunities the new technology promises.

Lok Sabha passed the Railways (Amendment) Bill, 2024 by a voice vote Wednesday. The bill seeks to repeal the Indian Railway Board Act, 1905 by incorporating the provisions for constitution and composition of the Railway Board into the Railways Act, 1989. Speaking during the debate on the proposed legislation, union railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said the bill will simplify the legal structure for operations of the Indian Railways. He also allayed concerns of privatisation and over centralisation of the Indian Railways raised by some members. Vaishnaw said there was no question of privatising the Indian Railways, adding that the infrastructure being developed was for the nation. He also said supremacy of parliament was not being affected by this legislation.

The athletes whose lawsuit against the NCAA is primed to pave the way for schools to pay them directly also want a players’ association to represent them in the complex contract negotiations that have overtaken the industry

Aaron Pierre was cast as Mufasa, the weight of following in the late James Earl Jones' legendary footsteps was enough to rattle any actor. But instead of letting the pressure roar too loudly, he harnessed his nerves to breathe fresh life into his young lion character. «I had a lot of nerves and I actually think those nerves served me because that is what the adolescent version of that lion is,» Pierre said in an interview Friday at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park about his leading role in «Mufasa: The Lion King.» He took the reins as the new voice of Mufasa after Jones played the iconic King Mufasa in both the 1994 and 2019 versions of Disney's «The Lion King.» Here are some details and insights about «Mufasa» ahead of its release in theaters on Dec. 20.

Missouri business groups have filed a lawsuit to try to stop a voter-approved law that will raise the state’s minimum wage and require employers to give workers paid sick leave

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Bashar al-Assad's government. All across Syria, families wept as they were reunited with children, siblings, spouses and parents who vanished years ago into the impregnable gulag of the Assad dynasty's five-decade reign. Newly freed prisoners ran through the Damascus streets holding up the fingers of both hands to show how many years they had been in prison, asking passers-by what had happened, not immediately understanding that Assad had fallen.