New York Fashion Week has opened its glamorous tent wider to feature models with disabilities wearing adaptive clothing designs by Tommy Hilfiger, Nike and Target. Organized by the Runway of Dreams Foundation, the show on Wednesday included a catwalk welcoming to wheelchairs, crutches, walking canes and more. Actor and model …

Egypt’s Antiquities Ministry says a preliminary report shows that the fire that engulfed Brazil’s National Museum destroyed all of its artifacts including those in the pharaonic hall, which contained 700 pieces.   Thursday’s statement says Egypt’s diplomatic missions in Brazil are communicating with the museum’s Egyptology department head to know …

High heels that are part of your feet. Matching bespoke beating hearts. Bioreactive necklaces and bioluminescent filaments that serve as a Medusa-esque back ornament. Enter the world of A. Human, a fictional brand that serves as both commentary on the touchy nature of body modifications today and the external focus …

Brazil’s National Museum said Wednesday that centuries-old Torah scrolls, considered to be some of Judaism’s oldest documents, had been moved before a massive fire ravaged the place and gutted much of the largest collections of national history artifacts in Latin America.  Questions about the fate of the scrolls had swirled …

Reality television star Kim Kardashian West, who successfully pushed President Donald Trump to grant a pardon for a drug offender earlier this year, returned to the White House on Wednesday for a meeting with senior aides as part of the administration’s efforts on criminal justice reform.          Kardashian …

Kenyan artist Michael Soi is criticizing China’s relationship with Africa through his collection of paintings at Nairobi’s Circle Art Gallery that depict the interest that China is showing in Africa. The 74-piece collection underscores China’s heavy involvement in the continent by depicting Africa as a woman being lured by China. …

Firefighters found bone fragments from a collection in the still-smoldering National Museum, an official said Tuesday, raising hopes that a famed skull might somehow have survived a massive blaze that turned historic and scientific artifacts to ashes. Flames tore through the museum Sunday night, and officials have said much of …

Mormon church founder Joseph Smith insisted on introducing polygamy in the early 1800s despite knowing the societal risks and getting pushback from other leaders and his first wife, recounts a new church history book unveiled Tuesday. A nearly 600-page book that covers early church history from 1815-1846 doesn’t dwell on …

Prosecutors in Los Angeles said Tuesday that they would not pursue a sexual assault charge against actor Kevin Spacey because the statute of limitations has run out. Spacey has been accused of assaulting a male colleague in 1992. The Los Angeles district attorney’s office said it was also declining to charge …

In 2010, Natalie Portman opened the Venice Film Festival as a tormented ballerina in “Black Swan,” a role that earned her an Oscar. She was back Tuesday with “Vox Lux,” as a brattish pop star with a troubled past. That past plays out in the film’s early scenes, where Portman’s …

Brazil’s National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, which suffered a massive fire late Sunday, boasted the largest archive of historical artifacts and documents in Latin America, some 20 million pieces from around the globe. Museum officials say it’s too soon to say what has been lost or spared. Here is …

The maker of The Lives of Others returns to divided 20th-century Germany in Never Look Away, a film that premiered in Venice on Tuesday and is already being talked about as his second potential Oscar winner. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, whose last film, The Tourist, starring Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp, was panned …

Harrison Ford and Lady Gaga are being honored by the SAG-AFTRA Foundation with the Artists Inspiration Award for their contributions to humanitarian and philanthropic causes. The nonprofit organization said Tuesday that the awards will be presented at its third-annual Patron of the Artists Awards on Nov. 8 in Beverly Hills. …

Amos Gitai’s Letter to a Friend in Gaza offers unflinching criticism of Israel’s blockade of Gaza and its lethal response to Palestinian protesters, in which the filmmaker asks fellow Israelis to examine their consciences. In the nonfiction short, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival this week, Israeli and Palestinian actors read out stories and …

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is back at work on “Veep” and said it feels “fantastic.” The star of the HBO comedy series revealed last September that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. The news came soon after her sixth consecutive Emmy win for the role of Selina Meyer. As work began …

A pair of ruby slippers used in “The Wizard of Oz” and later stolen from a Minnesota museum were recovered in a sting operation after a man approached the shoes’ insurer and said he could help get them back, the FBI said Tuesday.   The slippers were on loan to …

The United Nations considers marriage before the age of 18 to be a human rights violation. While the highest occurrence is in the least developed nations, child marriage is also a reality in the United States. Researchers at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health found some 78,000 American children …

Brazilians are mourning the destruction of Rio de Janeiro’s National Museum in an overnight fire. Much of the collection of historic, scientific and cultural artifacts, among the largest in Brazil, is believed to have been destroyed. It was not immediately clear what started the fire late Sunday, but many are …

Yemenis file into a makeshift cinema for the first time since fighting broke out in their city of Aden more than three years ago – and watch some of their own story reflected back at them on the projector screen. The film they have come to see is “Ten Days …

As firefighters sifted through the burned-out remains of Rio de Janeiro’s National Museum for hot embers Monday, Brazilians struggled with the loss of a vast collection of irreplaceable items from the country’s history.   The 200-year-old museum contained an extensive collection of paleontological, anthropological and biological specimens, such as a …

As Venezuela descends into economic chaos and Brazil’s former president Lula is barred from making a comeback because of a corruption conviction, filmmaker Emir Kusturica has made an ode to one Latin American leader who gives socialism a good name. El Pepe: A Supreme Life, which premiered at the Venice Film …

With his ginger beard, straw hat and sad, wounded expression, Willem Dafoe looks uncannily like a Vincent Van Gogh self-portrait, as he plays the artist in a biopic that premiered Monday at the Venice Film Festival. At Eternity’s Gate begins with the impoverished Van Gogh in Paris in the 1880s …

Nike has chosen Colin Kaepernick, the first NFL player to kneel during the national anthem as a protest against racism, as one of the faces for advertisements commemorating the 30th anniversary of its “Just Do It” slogan, a move that could draw U.S. President Donald Trump’s ire. “Colin has been …

The director turning Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels into an HBO television series said there was no way the stories could have been filmed in English or adapted to take place in America. The first two episodes of My Brilliant Friend — a co-production with Italian broadcaster RAI — screened at …

Jeff Goldblum is charismatic as ever in The Mountain, where he plays a smooth-talking doctor with an effective way of rendering people with psychiatric problems “innocuous” — a term he uses as a euphemism for his devastating medical procedure. Set in the 1950s, Goldblum’s Wallace Fiennes is based on real-life …