Liz Phair, Sarah McLachlan and Missy Elliott, left to right. (Getty Images) Lilith Fair wasn’t just a landmark in music history — it was a masterclass in late ’90s and early 2000s style. Originally running from 1997 to 1999, and briefly revived in 2010, Sarah McLachlan’s feminist-powered festival grew into a cultural phenomenon — explored…
This live blog has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. The Chinese capital is this week hosting the country’s most important annual defence conference, the Beijing Xiangshan Forum. More than 100 defence officials, including participants from the United States, Russia, the European Union…
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia signed a new defence agreement on Wednesday that said an attack on either country would be treated as an attack on both. The deal, called the Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement, was signed in Riyadh by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who was visiting the…
VINTON, Va. (WDBJ) – “Smart Phones should not be in the hands of, I’m going to give you ages 0 to 14. This is about protecting little brains.” Parents often look for physical threats to their children, so phones often don’t make their lists. But according to Roanoke County Schools they should be at the…
Surveillance footage captured the scene in suburban Des Plaines as three men were detained by ICE Tuesday morning. Attorney George Gomez tells NBC Chicago that one of the men who was detained has been in the U.S. for more than 30 years, but does not have current immigration status. Gomez told NBC Chicago one of…
The incident happened in Clissold Park just before 7.10pm today (September 17). Officers and London Ambulance Service crews attended and found a man and a woman injured. The pair, both in their 40s, were taken to hospital for treatment where the man later died. Police enquiries are ongoing to notify his next of kin. The…
The death of democracy won’t be televised. The FCC, this administration and spineless media conglomerates like Nexstar and Disney will make sure of that. If “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” is over — and I fear there’s no coming back from what Disney did to him on Wednesday — then it’s going to be over the most…
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell takes questions from reporters during a news conference following a two-day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee at the Federal Reserve on Sept. 17, 2025 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images The U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday stateside cut interest rates by a quarter point, bringing the…
SS26 look from L-R: Anna Sui, Diotima, Khaite, Campillo and Eckhaus Latta. You don’t truly know panic until you’re desperately fumbling for your phone, sloppily thumbing your passcode to open Shazam in time before a song you don’t know but want to know ends. We Shazam because it lets us in on a secret, makes…
Published on September 18, 2025 At the renowned Guangzhou Opera House, the fifth edition of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) Culture and Arts Festival was opened and continues for a month. This edition of the festival is set to incorporate over a hundred performances, nineteen exhibitions, as well as a large number of…