The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has extended invitations to 534 individuals to join its membership this year, including 2025 Academy Award winners Mikey Madison, Kieran Culkin and Lol Crawley, and nominees Ariana Grande, Sebastian Stan and Brandi Carlile. Also invited are this year’s Oscars host Conan O’Brien, his predecessor Jimmy Kimmel, and their respective producers.

Barcelona will open a soccer academy in southern China this year in partnership with local developer Mission Hills Group, the La Liga club said on Friday.

Neither Lionel Messi nor Cristiano Ronaldo would be considered fresh enough at youthful Bundesliga leaders RB Leipzig, says sports director Ralf Rangnick.

Undaunted by sanctions and hard realities on the pitch, North Korea's lone football academy has set its sights high -- producing players better than Lionel Messi, and teams that can dominate the world.

Bangladesh fast bowler Taskin Ahmed says that his bowling action did not require a major change after he was suspended by the ICC over it in March this year.

Although academic awareness of African people hunting with poison-tipped arrows extends through centuries, knowledge of this inventive practice remained scattered among entomology, anthropology and chemistry texts.

Thirty cadets at the prestigious US Military Academy at West Point were injured when an annual pillow fight tradition turned bloody.