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The crackdown on stand-up comedy unleashed by a joke is now hurting Beijing's vibrant live music scene.

Welsh tech billionaire Michael Moritz is criticised over an anti-drug campaign in San Francisco.

Churchill Downs Incorporated, the Louisville organization that hosts the Kentucky Derby, is set to temporarily suspend all racing operations at its legendary racetrack to review protocols in the wake of a series of horse deaths, the company announced on Friday.

The Cheez-It Bowl will no longer be a fixture at the end of the college football season, as Pop-Tarts will be taking over as the official sponsor.The most anticipated portion of the college football campaign is bowl game season. This presents programs with the opportunity to end their seasons wi...

With the playoffs just a few weeks away, we take a look at where each team stands in the week eight USFL power rankings.The USFL season has been intriguing and unpredictable. League-wide parity is high. Five of the league’s eight teams are within a game of .500. The season is poised for an...

The gamer, known for playing Dead by Daylight, dies after being diagnosed with motor neuron disease.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell held a phone call with the head of UBS Group AG in the

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will testify at the U.S. Senate Banking Committee on June 22 at 10

The new Barbie movie is so pink, it’s caused a worldwide shortage of specific paint colours. If the trailer for Greta Gerwig’s upcoming film is anything to go by, it’s going to be one of the brightest movies of all time – with plenty of Barbie’s iconic pink splashed across the screen. Now it’s been revealed there was so much paint used to create the sets for the project that it sparked an international shortage. Gerwig sent an email to Architectural Digest explaining that she hired production designer Sarah Greenwood and set decorator Katie Spencer to create the Barbie dreamhouse that much of the film takes place in. Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter The set was put together at Warner Bros. Studio in Leavesden in Hertfordshire Speaking about the art direction, Gerwig said that she wanted the set to give the feel of "maintaining the 'kid-ness'”, and having a sense of "authentic artificiality". Barbie | Main Trailer www.youtube.com They achieved this in part by hand painting the backgrounds for the sets rather than using CGI. "I wanted the pinks to be very bright, and everything to be almost too much," she explained, saying that she wanted to remember "what made me love Barbie when I was a little girl". Gerwig couldn’t have realised the knock-on effect of the decision, though. Greenwood spoke to the publication and revealed that the creation of the set led to a shortage of the fluorescent shade of Rosco paints. "The world ran out of pink," she said. The new film certainly looks eye-catching, with a star-studded cast featuring Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Will Ferrell and more. Meanwhile, the lineup for the movie soundtrack was also announced with music from Dua Lipa, Lizzo, Charli XCX, and even Ken himself as Gosling being listed. In addition Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice have made a new version of AQUA's “Barbie Girl,” which can be briefly heard in the trailer. Barbie is set to be released in cinemas on Friday 21 July. Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.

Youssef Mikhaiel, from Egypt, has won a last-ditch attempt to prevent his removal from the UK.

Fitch Ratings is keeping the United States on watch for a potential credit rating downgrade even after Congress passed a last-minute bill to avert a disastrous default.

The search for survivors of an Iowa apartment building continues, as crews work to stabilize the structure to make it safer for recovery efforts.