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MILAN — A digital runway show by five Italian fashion designers of African origin opens Milan Fashion Week on Wednesday, one tangible result of a campaign launched last summer by the only Black Italian designer belonging to the Milan fashion chamber.

A seemingly sharp decline of global COVID-19 cases has ignited exuberance among some infectious disease doctors and epidemiologists, even if they're not sure what exactly is causing that downward spike.

Billie Holiday has always been a monster of a role. Diana Ross tackled her on film and Audra McDonald did it on stage. Now it's time for Andra Day — a singer and actress perfectly named to play Lady Day — and she shines.

Movies US charts: 1. Monster Hunter 2. Greenland 3. Tenet 4. Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar 5. The Croods: A New Age 6. Let Him Go 7. The Swordsman 8. Buddy Games 9. Silk Road 10. Shadow in the Cloud Movies US charts - Independent: 1.

Book Title by Author Name - ISBN - (Publisher) 1. A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas - 9781635576191 - (Bloomsbury Publishing) 2. Relentless by Mark Greaney - 9780593098967 - (Penguin Publishing Group) 3.

NEW YORK — When we last saw Franklin Saint, he had problems, not least of which was three fresh bullet wounds. As season three of “Snowfall” ended, rivals were circling his mini-drug empire and violence levels were up.

LONDON — Prince Philip is “comfortable” in a London hospital where he is being treated for an infection, Buckingham Palace said Tuesday.

LOS ANGELES — “Resident Alien,” a new Syfy series that caught the attention of veteran TV critic Rob Owen and approving viewers, is evidence that inventive shows exist outside premium cable and streaming services.

TORONTO — OverActive Media has released details of its plan for a new entertainment venue at Exhibition Place.

In Florian Zeller’s “The Father,” Anthony, 80, in the grip of dementia, is a captain ready to go down with the ship. Overhearing his daughter and son-in-law contemplating a nursing home, he curses them as “rats” abandoning him.