STR | AFP | Getty Images This photo taken on June 20, 2017 shows a man demonstrating a toothpick crossbow in Chengdu, in China’s southwest Sichuan province. Handheld crossbows that can fire out needles and nails are the latest must-have toy in China but anxious parents want them banned before …

Photo The director Bertrand Tavernier in the documentary “My Journey Through French Cinema,” an immersive and wide-reaching exploration of French cinema by one of its own. Credit Etienne George/Cohen Media Group Bertrand Tavernier’s “My Journey Through French Cinema” delivers what it promises. Even so, its explanatory title doesn’t begin to …

OLI SCARFF | AFP | Getty Images Actor Johnny Depp introduces his film, The Libertine, to the audience at ‘Cineramageddon’, the outdoor cinema venue, at the Glastonbury Festival of Music and Performing Arts on Worthy Farm near the village of Pilton in Somerset, South West England, on June 22, 2017 …

Photo Alison Brie, left, and Britney Young in “GLOW.” Credit Erica Parise/Netflix Alison Brie plays a flailing actress turned professional wrestler in “GLOW,” with Jenji Kohan of “Orange Is the New Black” as an executive producer. And Earth, Wind & Fire adds a country twang in “CMT Crossroads.” What’s Streaming …

ROBERTA SMITH Photo An untitled 2014 work by Peter Shear. Credit Courtesy of the artist and Fortnight Institute PETER SHEAR Through July 16. Fortnight Institute, 60 East Fourth Street, Manhattan; fortnight.institute. The Fortnight Institute, which does not represent artists, sprang up last year on the old stamping grounds of the …

Olivia Harris | Reuters Authorities around the world, including the United States, Switzerland and Singapore have looked into anti-money laundering breaches relating to 1MDB. Malaysia’s sovereign rating may be in trouble as an ongoing corruption saga threatens to destabilize the nation’s fiscal position, S&P Global Ratings has warned. In a …

But within his nondescript exterior lurks the heart of a maverick, alert to the evils of a surveillance state where even thinking subversively is a crime. The book painstakingly establishes the grim, color-stripped reality of Winston’s everyday world (which isn’t all that different from the bombed-out, rations-ruled postwar London that …

DIPTENDU DUTTA / AFP / Getty Images Indian supporters of the separatist Gorkha Janmukti Morcha group demonstrate during an indefinite strike called in Darjeeling on June 19, 2017. Hundreds of protesters paraded with coffins containing the bodies of two men they were were killed in clashes. The timing of the …

Several of China’s largest overseas asset buyers, including billionaire Wang Jianlin’s Wanda Group, are being placed under scrutiny, amid a government crackdown on money laundering and a grand campaign to check financial risks ahead of the 19th party congress. Wanda, Fosun, Anbang, HNA and east China’s Zhejiang based Rossoneri Sport …

Photo Paula Vogel’s “Indecent,” at the Cort Theater on Broadway. On Thursday, producers announced that the play, which was set to close on June 25 because of poor ticket sales, would stay open through Aug. 6. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times “Indecent” is not closing on Broadway after all. …