A Philippine gaming firm voluntarily halted trading Wednesday after President Rodrigo Duterte launched an attack on its chairman as part of a campaign against "oligarchs."

Interviewing Hugh Grant -- the poster boy for a campaign against press intrusion and a notoriously prickly subject when the mood takes him -- can be an intimidating experience.

Survivors of the Khmer Rouge hit out at Pokemon Go players on Wednesday after they flocked to one of the regime's notorious prisons -- now a museum to Cambodia's brutal genocide -- to catch digital monsters.

Filmmaker David O. Russell has tapped Oscar winners Robert De Niro and Julianne Moore to star in a new television series, reports said Tuesday.

The as yet untitled show will be a crime thriller, possibly set in the 1990s, and set to run for several seasons, according to film website Deadline.

The creators of "Game of Thrones" are turning the blockbuster fantasy epic into a North American concert tour, bringing together both the music and new visuals from the series.

The tour next year will focus on the score composed by Ramin Djawadi, who will present the music with a full orchestra and what producers promised to be innovative video technology.

Philippines tourism officials on Tuesday said a threat by an Islamic State-related group to bomb the Miss Universe beauty contest was "serious", but insisted the country would be ready to hold the pageant next year.

U.S. actor Charlie Sheen, who announced last year he is HIV-positive, said other celebrities should come forward if they have contracted the virus to help lift its stigma.

Authorities in the U.S. state of Kansas on Monday were investigating the death of a 10-year-old boy on what is billed as the world's tallest water slide, the park said.

Caleb Schwab, the son of a Kansas state legislator, was killed Sunday on the Verruckt, a towering water slide at the city's Schlitterbahn water park.

Just like countless other countries, Spain has been hit so hard by the Pokemon Go craze that travel agencies are seeking to cash in on the global phenomenon with specialized tours.

Hundreds of Pokemon Go fans gathered in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo, on Sunday to join an annual Pikachu parade as the global phenomenon soars in popularity.