Ovasave, an Abu Dhabi-based digital health startup focused on fertility and hormonal care, has raised $1.2m in pre-seed funding, a sign of growing investor appetite for women’s health innovation ...

In the 19th century, composer Giacomo Puccini was working on a new piece based on French author Henri Murger’s book Scènes de la vie de bohème. Unbeknownst to Puccini, fellow composer Ruggero ...

In the snakepit of the Milanese opera business in the late 1800s, these tangled connections were standard, as dozens of young composers fought for prominence to be the new Verdi, whose portrait hangs ...

Don’t be fooled by the exclamatory, slightly racy title; James Inverne’s That Bastard, Puccini! is a gentle affair, a merry comedy with overtones of rarified high culture, inspired by genuinely ...

James Inverne on why he was drawn to write a play about a scandal around the writing of two rival La bohèmes Creativity, and creative people, and their creative works, often make me emotional. I don’t ...

The Tampa Bay Rays' pickup basketball team just got a whole lot taller. That's because their newest relief pitcher stands 6-foot-10. The Rays called up right-handed pitcher Paul Gervase from Triple-A ...

This is what Jacob deGrom used to look like. Baseball fans weren't sure, for a long time, whether the former Mets superstar would ever return to form after battling injuries. But lately with the ...

Diego Pineda has been a devout storyteller his whole life. He has self-published a fantasy novel and a book of short stories, and is actively working on publishing his second novel. A lifelong fan of ...

Recent drone strikes in Sudan have revealed an escalating rivalry between the United Arab Emirates and Turkey, which are backing opposing sides in a war that has been raging since April 2023.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Here’s a show that seeks a whole new meaning for the phrase “biting satire”. This amiably ridiculous spoof of ...

His theatre credits include Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors and La Cage Aux Folles (Menier, The Mousetrap (St. Martins), A Christmas Carol (Old Vic), and Matilda the Musical (Cambridge). His television ...