For his Super Bowl halftime show, Bad Bunny transported the field in Northern California around 3,500 miles, transforming it into the fields of Puerto Rico. Even before he launched into "Tití Me Preguntó," the Puerto Rican superstar had suffused the set with symbols of the island — and a sense of wider Pan-Americanism.
Here's a breakdown of the Easter eggs hidden in plain view during the 13-minute set.
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A new wave of artists is transcending traditional notions of Christian music, drawing young global audiences to faith-based rap, Afrobeats and R&B.
Often boosted by social media, many of them got their start with independent labels or by uploading self-made songs to streaming platforms. Now, bigger labels and streaming services are catching on.
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The White House on Friday rejected what it called "fake outrage" after US President Donald Trump posted an election conspiracy video that depicted former president Barack Obama and his wife Michelle as monkeys.
"This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King. Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public," Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement to AFP.
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A burst of color lit up Lahore's night sky overnight as Pakistan's cultural capital relaunched the Basant kite-flying festival after nearly two decades.
Authorities said Friday that the celebration has been allowed only under strict safety regulations, warning that the use of hazardous kite strings that endanger lives could lead to arrests.
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Bad Bunny is expected to perform the Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday entirely in Spanish — which has inspired fans to quickly learn the language.
In October, the Puerto Rican singer — born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio — kicked off the 51st season of "Saturday Night Live" expressing pride over the achievement in Spanish, after which he said in English, "If you didn't understand what I just said, you have four months to learn!"
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An unlikely love story blossoming in the thick of war provides the backdrop to a new documentary that raises questions about how modern media cover conflict.
"Birds of War" traces the growing relationship between Syrian activist-cameraman Abd Alkader Habak and Lebanese journalist Janay Boulos, who was working for the BBC in London as Syria's civil war unfurled.
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For Iraqis who lived through the 1990s, dictator Saddam Hussein's birthday on April 28 was a disorientating day of celebration and propaganda.
Parties were staged across the sanctions-hit country to mark the occasion, while many public squares and bridges around Baghdad were decorated with colored lights.
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Don't tune into the Super Bowl hoping for a break from the tumultuous politics gripping the U.S.
The NFL is facing pressure ahead of Sunday's game between the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots to take a more explicit stance against the Trump administration's aggressive immigration enforcement. More than 184,000 people have signed a petition calling on the league to denounce the potential presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Super Bowl, which is being held at Levi's Stadium in the San Francisco Bay Area. The liberal group MoveOn plans to deliver the petition to the NFL's New York City headquarters on Tuesday.
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Spain set a new tourism record in 2025 when it welcomed 96.8 million foreign visitors, according to figures released Tuesday by the National Statistics Institute.
The number of international visitors increased 3.2% compared to 2024, when there were 94 million tourists.
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From tech titans to Wall Street power brokers and foreign dignitaries, a who's who of powerful men make appearances in the huge trove of documents released by the Justice Department in connection with its investigations of Jeffrey Epstein.
All have denied having anything to do with his sexual abuse of girls and young women. Yet some of them maintained friendships with Epstein, or developed them anew, even after news stories made him widely known as an alleged abuser of young girls.
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