SAN FRANCISCO: Sony Pictures Entertainment on Wednesday said that the Academy Award winning screenwriter behind "The Social Network" will write the script for a film about Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. Aaron Sorkin will adapt the hot-selling biography by journalist Walter Isaacson for the motion picture screen, according to Sony. "Steve Jobs's story is unique: he was one of the most revolutionary and influential men not just of our time but of all time," Sony Pictures co-chair Amy ...

HONG KONG: A new art fair devoted to "affordable" contemporary art will be held in Hong Kong next year, organisers said Wednesday, confirming the city's new status as a regional art hub. The fair is being put together by Affordable Art China, which has mounted a similar event in Beijing since 2006 and is opening a new franchise in Shanghai later this year. The new fair will sit alongside the established Hong Kong International Art Fair (Art ...

SYDNEY: A mystery liver disease thought to be caused by introduced weeds is causing hairy-nosed wombats in southern Australia to go bald and die, researchers said Tuesday. The illness, which causes the wombat to lose some or all of its fur and then starve to death, is tearing through South Australia's native southern hairy-nosed wombats, threatening entire populations. Peter Clements from the state's Natural History Society said wildlife rescue workers had discovered "several hundred" sickened animals in ...