An 11-year-old girl in New York, who was helping her mother unpack their car during a powerful storm, was killed when a tree snapped and fell onto their vehicle. The girl’s mother had just parked the family SUV at their Newburgh City home when violent wind gusts toppled a tree and trapped the girl inside, FOX5 NY reported. Newburgh is about 60 miles north of New York City. "The mother was on the porch, crying, 'My daughter, my daughter,'" Ramon Rodriguez, a witness, told NBC News 4 New York. "It kind of gave me a chill when I first saw it." Firefighters responded and used power tools in an attempt to cut away the tree, FOX5 NY reported. The mother stood outside the car in tears as the fire department worked. “Suddenly it turned into a nightmare,” a resident told the station. “All Newburgh was horrible.” The girl was pulled from the car and taken to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead. The mother suffered minor injuries. Neighbors told News12 that the family had usually parked the SUV on the other side of the lot outside their home. Police were withholding the identities of the mother and daughter as of Tuesday night. The torrential rain and destructive winds hit Newburgh—located about 70 miles north of New York City—especially hard, knocking out power and collapsing structures around the city. The storm also has been blamed for the death of a Connecticut man who was killed when a tree fell onto the truck he was taking shelter in. In its wake, the storm knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of homes, downed trees and electrical wires, sparked fires, washed out roads and left commuters stranded for most of the evening.

John Travolta is bringing back his Saturday Night Fever moves – on a Tuesday. The 64-year-old actor joined 50 Cent on stage for the rapper’s performance of his hit, “Just A Lil Bit,” during a party at the Cannes Film Festival. And while Travolta was famous for his moves in the Seventies, seems his greased lightning does not quite do the trick when it comes to hip hop with the actor doing some classic dad bopping around instead. In an Instagram video, shared on social media on Tuesday by Jeremy Bettis, an executive at 50 Cent’s record label, Travolta is seen trying to get down as 50 Cent raps his big hit. But the crowd loved Travolta’s impromptu dance, screaming and cheering at the end of his and 50 Cent’s performance. Travolta is currently at the annual film festival for his latest movie, Gotti, which examines the life of mobster John Gotti (played by Travolta), who is the head of the infamous Gambino family. Travolta’s real-life wife, Kelly Preston, also appears in the biopic as Gotti’s wife, Victoria. Earlier in the day, the American Crime Story star and Preston were joined by their children — 18-year-old-daughter, Ella and 7-year-old son, Benjamin — at the premiere of the film. Back in September 2016, Travolta shared that he was drawn to the role of Gotti, nicknamed the Teflon Don, because it showed the more sensitive side of the notorious Mafia boss. “There’s always two sides to a story,” Travolta said in an interview with Good Morning America. “They had a very human other side of existence which is their family and their trials and tribulations.”

After falling out of the Hollywood spotlight relatively early in her career, Margot Kidder continued to lead a happy, productive life, appearing in a number of small films, advocating for mental health awareness, fighting for political causes and enjoying small town living in Montana. The actress, who died on Sunday at her home in Livingston, Montana, at the age of 69, “didn’t give a s— about getting old,” her friend Frank D’Angelo, who directed her in her final film, told PEOPLE. “I think she had enough of Hollywood because in Hollywood, her motto was, when you turn 30 and if you don’t do stuff with producers — and I’m being cordial here — you’re not going to be in any movies,” D’Angelo added. Kidder rose to fame in 1978 for her role as Lois Lane in Superman opposite Christopher Reeve. She and Reeve would go on to appear in three more Superman movies together, with the final film premiering in 1987, but both had difficulty finding quality work after finishing the franchise. Her struggle with bipolar disorder, which became highly publicized after a 1996 manic episode left her homeless for a time, also likely contributed to her career’s decline. After receiving treatment, Kidder went on to become a lifelong advocate for mental health awareness. “She was completely open,” D’Angelo said of her struggles with mental health. “She was homeless and she didn’t regret that. To her that was an experience.” Wilder continued, “She didn’t live her life terribly carefully I don’t think. She needed to make money in these last few years so she would go to [fan] conventions where they paid her a lot of cash to sign things. After recovering from her breakdown in 1996, Kidder began taking on a number of smaller roles in various off-beat projects. “I’m not choosy at all! I’ll do practically anything,” she told The Advocate in 2008. “I’m the biggest whore on the block. I live in a little town in Montana, and you have to drag me out of here to get to L.A., so I’m not readily available. But unless it’s something sexist or cruel, I just love to work. I’ve done all sorts of things, but you just haven’t seen them because they’re often very bad and shown at 4 in the morning.” She made a total of five films with D’Angelo, including her final film, 2017’s The Neighborhood, and 2016’s The Red Maple Leaf, which featured a star-studded cast including James Caan, Kris Kristofferson and Mira Sirvino. “Everybody on the set loved her. Everybody gravitated to her,” D’Angelo told PEOPLE. Outside of acting, Kidder continued to be politically active throughout her later life. She was the Montana State Coordinator for Progressive Democrats of America as recently as 2009, and in 2011, she and dozens of other protestors were arrested while protesting the Keystone Pipeline. © Tara Walton/Toronto Star via Getty Images Margot Kidder She was a vocal supporter of Bernie Sanders’ presidential bid and hosted a dinner event by the Yellowstone County Democrats in Billings, Montana titled “Billings for Bernie.” When Hillary Clinton was chosen as the Democrat’s candidate for president at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, she wrote, “I am not an American tonight … I reject the words I voiced at my citizenship ceremony.” (Kidder, born in Canada, became an American citizen in 2005). “We were very politically active so we had that in common,” Wilder told PEOPLE. “She absolutely led an unapologetic life. She had no qualms about being who exactly she was, saying things very much out loud wherever she was.” Wilder noted that Kidder “also went to Standing Rock” in North Dakota, where she protested the Dakota Access Pipeline. “This woman, who was that old, going by herself to stand with these people. She wouldn’t let her health or her finances stand in her way of what she felt she needed to do to help people.” Kidder, whose cause of death has not yet been made public, is remembered by her daughter Maggie, 41, with whom she had a “rocky relationship,” Wilder said. “It’s a shame how people remember her, as either Lois Lane or the crazy actress, she was so much more than that,” Wilder added. “She was such a caring person, I know she had difficulty with some members of her family but I didn’t know her that way at all.”

Aziz Ansari is back on the stage. The Master of None star performed multiple comedy sets in New York City last week, the first time he's taken the stage for a performance since being accused of inappropriate sexual behavior in January. In a statement to ET at the time, Ansari said his interaction with the woman "by all indications was completely consensual." Ansari appeared at the Comedy Cellar in NYC from Wednesday through Sunday, including during the club's Mother's Day show -- though he wasn't advertised. He reportedly covered a wide range of topics, but it's unclear if the allegation ever came up. Ansari has laid low since the allegation surfaced against him in January, and skipped the 2018 SAG Awards. In a March interview with Vanity Fair, Ansari's Master of None co-star Lena Waithe addressed the claim that the woman felt "violated" after her encounter with the actor. "At the end of the day, what I would hope comes out of this is that we as a society educate ourselves about what consent is -- what it looks like, what it feels like, what it sounds like," she said. "I think there are both men and women who are still trying to figure it out. We need to be more attuned to each other, pay more attention to each other, in every scenario, and really make sure that, whatever it is we’re doing with someone else, they’re comfortable doing whatever that thing is, and that we’re doing it together. That’s just human kindness and decency."

CBS’s acknowledgement of a “workplace concern” involving Pauley Perrette of the crime drama “NCIS” prompted a response from the actress on Tuesday. Perrette earlier posted a series of cryptic tweets saying she had endured “multiple physical assaults” and suggested that may have contributed to her departure from the show. “It’s horrifying,” she wrote. “I left.” CBS Television Studios issued a statement late Tuesday confirming that “over a year ago” Perrette ― who played forensic scientist Abby Sciuto on “NCIS” for 15 seasons before her final episode aired last week ― “came to us with a workplace concern. We took the matter seriously and worked with her to find a resolution. We are committed to a safe work environment on all our shows.” Perrette responded on Twitter by saying the network“always had my back.”

Race 3 Trailer is finally here! Salman Khan in his suited-up avatar is a treat to watch & the signature music pumps up the adrenaline rush. The entire family of Race 3 is shining in their avatars and without any arguing are styled at their best. Salman Khan has been on a trolling spree since yesterday. Yesterday he tweeted, “Kal ka mujhe thoda doubtful lag raha hai,” creating doubts in the mind of his fans. This morning he did something similar and tweeted, “Kal ka jo doubt tha woh aaj mujhe doubtful lag raha hai.” Then he posted the trailers of Race and Race 2 just to tease his fans. Race 3 Trailer He then finally confirmed, “Jis #Race se mujhe nikalne ki koshish kar rahe hai yeh bewakoof woh yeh nahi jaante ki is #Race ka Sikandar main hu ! Chalo bahut ho gaya khelna khilana ab dekho #Race3 ka trailer at 5.15pm IST on @SKFilmsOfficial .” Check out the trailer here: Collaborating for the second time with the director, Jacqueline Fernandez recently said: “It was an amazing experience. We had gone to some great location and shot some really cool stuff. “Remo, I feel has done a fantastic job. The cast is already excited so we all are having real fun.” While directors Abbas-Mustan directed the first two films, ace choreographer-filmmaker Remo D’ Souza has been roped in to don the director’s hat for the third instalment in the franchise. Like all Salman blockbusters, Race 3 is scheduled to be released coinciding with the Eid festival on June 15. The movie also features Jacqueline Fernandez, Anil Kapoor, Bobby Deol, Daisy Shah and and Saqib Saleem. Co-presented by Tips Films and Salman Khan Films, Race 3 is produced by Ramesh S. Taurani. It has been shot in Bangkok and Mumbai along with Abu Dhabi.

Salman Khan, Jacqueline Fernandez and the entire team of Race 3 launched the theatrical trailer of the action thriller at an event in Mumbai. In the presence of media, Khan revealed that he did incorporate a few changes in the script of Race 3 to make it palatable for the family audience and was confident that the film is a big budget action bonanza just like the entertainers done by Amitabh Bachchan and Dharmendra in the 70’s and 80’s. When asked as to what made him come on board for Race 3, Salman said, “I heard the script of Race 3 around 2 years back, but it went over my head back then. Ramesh Ji (Producer) kept on insisting to listen to the script once again. I heard it again and then I thought it is a different genre for me to do. I wanted a few changes in it because I didn’t fit the template of the Race franchise. I knew that this is a thriller, but I wanted a few changes, so we sat on the script and incorporated the changes. After listening to the script again, I felt that it is actually a fun film for me to do. It is like those old school musical action bonanza. This is a film that is high on action, drama, music, and emotions. It is an enjoyable action musical bonanza, which I have not done in my career. This is a kind of film that Mr. Bachchan, Dilip Kumar, and Dharmendra used to do back then.” Race 3 is an entertainer Amitabh Bachchan and Dharmendra Films, says Salman Khan Salman further revealed that he was sure about Remo D’Souza’s capabilities as a director which is the reason why he got him on board for the film. Khan confirmed that if Race 3 works at the Box-Office, he would team up with Remo again on the dance film. “Actually Remo, Jacqueline, Daisy and I were supposed to do another film and that’s when Ramesh Ji came with the reworked script of Race. Then I asked Remo if he would like to do Race and the same team move onto Race. I told him that if Race works, we would move onto the dance film,” said Salman Remo, who is directing an action film for the first time in his career believes that he has done a good job with the film and is anxious to see how the audience react when the watch the film in the cinema hall. “I have watched Race and Race 2, so I had the pressure of directing Race 3 but when I heard the script, I thought that I can do it. I think when you guys watch the film, I will get to know if I have done justice or no,” said Remo. Starring Salman Khan, Anil Kapoor, Bobby Deol, Jacqueline Fernandez in lead, Race 3 is set to hit the big screen this Eid. The film directed by Remo D’Souza will release in 3D format across the cinema halls in the country.

Raazi is continuing to rake in moolah as it has now found itself well established at the Box Office. That was evidenced on Tuesday as well when the collections stayed on to be good. With 6.10 crore more coming in, the film is maintaining well over the weekdays as well. This is on the expected lines too if one looks at how the film had grown so very well during the weekend. The Meghna Gulzar directed film currently stands at 45.34 crores and even though a lifetime number like this would have been okay for it, currently we are talking about just the 5-day number. The film is a Superhit and in this genre, stage and setting, it is going to be the biggest ever. Alia Bhatt has scored again and though her upcoming films are star-studded commercial affairs, one waits to see what kind of female-centric film does she sign next. Box Office – Raazi is maintaining quite well over the weekdays, 102 Not Out is decent Meanwhile, 102 Not Out has slowed down now after some good jump during the second weekend. The weekdays are just about decent for the film, what with 1.26 crore more coming in on Tuesday. The film currently stands at 39.51 crores and it would be a stretch to reach the 50 crore mark. Still, the Umesh Shukla directed film is a success and has done more business than what was expected out of it before release.

Vikramaditya Motwane directorial vigilante drama Bhavesh Joshi Superhero starring Harshvardhan Kapoor which was scheduled to release on 25th May 2018, will now be releasing on 1st June 2018. The makers believe 1st June is a better date from a distributional point of view. It has a greater audience potential and is a safe distance away from holdover Hindi and English releases. The film will get better and more number of shows and June 1st as a date has a greater audience potential. Harshavardhan Kapoor’s Bhavesh Joshi Superhero Gets A New Release Date! After garnering immense accolades from the audience and critics alike last year with Trapped, Vikramaditya Motwane is all set to deliver yet another gripping story. The trailer of Bhavesh Joshi Superhero encompasses humor, drama, action, and tragedy making the trailer an interesting watch. The recently released promotional song ‘Chavanprash‘ featuring Arjun Kapoor has been creating waves owing to its quirky lyrics and presentation. The action-packed trailer traces the journey of a group of friends who set out on the path of righteousness. Over a series of thrilling incidents, their life takes a curve, leading a common man to become a Superhero in the form of ‘Bhavesh Joshi Superhero‘. The film promises some intense action and well-crafted hand combat fights, which have been designed by an international crew, and is shot at some never before seen locations in and around Mumbai. Presented by Eros International & Phantom, Bhavesh Joshi Superhero is directed by Vikramaditya Motwane starring Harshvardhan Kapoor and is slated to release on 1st June, 2018. The film is produced by Eros International, Reliance Entertainment, Vikas Bahl, Madhu Mantena & Anurag Kashyap.

In hindsight, actress and former beauty queen Aishwarya Rai Bachchan feels she has been school girlish in her choices and feels she should have been more fierce about taking up projects. “I think I was very school girlish in my choices… I was very good at keeping with schedules,and because of that I kind of walked away from some very great films and opportunities… because I would be sincere to schedules. Now when I think back, I should have maybe been more fierce and aggressive with wanting the films and allowed the schedules to figure themselves out as I have see a lot of colleagues have worked over the years,” Aishwarya told a group of media in a video interaction from Cannes. She, however, has no regrets. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s Befitting Reply On Calling Jazbaa As Her Comeback Vehicle! “There are so many stories to be told, look at the population of the world. There are enough films and enough work to do,” said Aishwarya, 44, who was in the French Riviera to attend the 71st Cannes Film Festival as the L’Oreal brand ambassador. Having made her film debut with Mani Ratnam’s Iruvar, Aishwarya has worked with some of India’s most well-known filmmakers like Sanjay Leela Bhansali (Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, Devdas and Guzaarish), Ashutosh Gowariker (Jodhaa Akbar), Rituparno Ghosh (Chokher Bali and Raincoat). She took a five-year break when she had daughter Aaradhya with husband Abhishek Bachchan, making a comeback with Jazbaa in 2015. “Recently, there was a colleague who asked me, Was Jazbaa the comeback vehicle you wanted? I was like, Guys, it was a script, I liked the idea and I went with it. I don’t want to play into how one has to go about things,” Aishwarya said as she explained how her choices have always been about following her heart, and not the herd. “I came in from Miss World, so because I experienced blast of stardom so early, I, from the very beginning — from Mani Ratnam to date — made choices from my heart, and tried being myself… I ended up doing my own thing and not following patterns that existed before, after or what is the natural trajectory of a leading lady in our industry. “I think that’s why people think I end up breaking preconceived norms… And that wonderfully continues.” The actress keeps getting asked when will she be seen on-screen next, but she says she keeps dilly-dallying it. “When I took a break with Aaradhya and even now, I get asked, ‘Why don’t we see more of you?’ Yes, I want to do more films. I have been a little easy on my time planning… I have happily played mummy to Aaradhya and thrown work around here and there. Even now when I am offered a good script, I feel like doing but then I think, ‘Let me take one more holiday this month. I will do the next one’. I think this attitude needs to change,” she said with a laugh. At the Cannes gala, Aishwarya made a style statement in elaborate gowns. She says she is fine with people commenting, critiquing or criticising because “that’s part of being a celebrity, being a public figure and being in the public domain. “That is fine. That goes with the turf… I am very easy with it and everyone has seen it over the years. I don’t disrespect it.” However, she feels women need to stop judging each other in day-to-day lives.

Actor Abhishek Bajaj says he drew inspiration from the character of Badri, played by Varun Dhawan in the film Badrinath Ki Dulhaniya, for a show. Abhishek will play Mahi in &TV’s latest offering Bitti Businesswali. Here’s What Connects TV Actor Abhishek Bajaj With Varun Dhawan “My look and the character are quite similar to Varun’s Badri image that he played in the movie. Our show is based out of Allahabad and I deck up in kurtas with jeans and a waistcoat. “The look will somewhat remind you of Badri. Both the characters are from Uttar Pradesh and have a certain accent which is very relatable,” Abhishek said in a statement. The actor spoke to his friends who hail from UP to get the body language right.

Actor Vinay Pathak, who visited Pakistan for the Pakistan International Film Festival earlier this year, says Indian artistes are received very warmly on the other side of the border. On his experience of attending the festival, Vinay told IANS: “I think Pakistan is the only country where we are treated with special care because we are Indian. No other country in the world will treat us with so much love and warmth because you are an Indian.” “The hatred that we see in the mainstream media or social media is nothing to do with common people. I think people to people friendship can never be stopped and should not be stopped for any reason.” Vinay Pathak Says Pakistan Is The Only Country Where We Are Treated With Special Care The actor, who attended some of the film screenings during the film festival in March, also visited a few cinema halls and multiplexes there. “I went to attend a premiere of a Pakistani film and saw a huge poster of Raid (Ajay Devgn-starrer Indian film) over there. The organisers were saying that there is a market of Indian film in Pakistan because people love watching our films. They try to release our films almost simultaneously.” “Culturally, we have similarities…our legends are same, our food, our looks…,” said the Bheja Fry fame actor. Vinay will soon be seen in the upcoming family drama titled Khajoor Pe Akte, releasing on Friday. He has worked with some of his old colleagues like actor-director Harsh Chhaya, Manoj Pahwa and Seema Pahwa. Asked if he prioritises a script when it comes from a friend, Vinay said: “If you are talking about preference or favour, I do not look at the matter like that. This is Harsh’s debut film as director but until I read the script, I did not know it’s Harsh’s script because he did not approach me as a friend. “I said yes to some films earlier to help some friends, but those scripts were fantastic also. So I think I am lucky to be surrounded by talented people.”

Kareena Kapoor Khan, Sonam Kapoor, Swara Bhasker and Shikha Talsania are all set to bring us Veere Di Wedding! The makers of the move have been releasing songs and the audiences are just loving it. The latest song released was the title track named Veere. The girls are seen enjoying life and celebrating friendship in the video. It is sung by Vishal Mishra, Aditi Singh Sharma, Iulia Vantur, Dhvani Bhanushali, Nikita Ahuja, Payal Dev & Sharvi Yadav. Veere Di Wedding Title Track: Celebrate Friendship With Kareena Kapoor Khan & Her Veers The music is given by Vishal Mishra. Listen to the track right here: Directed by Shashank Ghosh, Veere Di Wedding will release on June 1. The film is presented by Ekta Kapoor’s home banner Balaji Motion Pictures and is a romantic comedy is co-produced by Sonam’s sister Rhea Kapoor, Ekta and Nikhil Dwivedi.

Actress and philanthropist Alia Bhatt has launched a new philanthropic initiative ‘Mi Wardrobe is Su Wardrobe’ (translated my wardrobe is your wardrobe) to share handpicked garments from her personal closet, for charity. Speaking about the initiative Alia said, “Mi Wardrobe is Su Wardrobe is a chance for people to pick an outfit or two from my closet and support a good cause at the same time. There are many wonderful organisations in India that require financial aid to continue making a positive and sustainable impact. Together, we can take a small step towards helping some of them with this initiative. Because every little step matters. When you purchase products with the ‘Mi Wardrobe is Su Wardrobe’ tag – not only will you have a great, new (okay, old) addition to your closet, but the entire amount from your purchase will go to charity. It’s old clothes but it’s a new idea.” You Can Now Actually Dress Like Alia Bhatt; Here’s How? Alia’s wardrobe will be on display at the Styclecracker Night Market being held on the 19th and 20th of May at Khar Gymkhana in Mumbai. All proceeds from the sale of these garments will go towards the Liter Of Light program run by Aroha, a Bengaluru based organization. Through this program, Aroha recycles plastic bottles to provide solar lighting to people with limited or no access to electricity.

Race 3 trailer which is breaking the internet since yesterday has been receiving a mix response from the movie-goers. This said, people are comparing its action sequences with Salman Khan’s last film Tiger Zinda Hai. There’s one uncanny similarity between Race 3 and Tiger Zinda Hai. The trailer of Race 3 starts with Sikander aka Salman Khan explaining how this is the race of life and will need someone’s life to end it. Going through an action montage of over 3 minutes the last scene of the trailer reminds us highly of Tiger Zinda Hai. Race 3 Tiger Zinda Hai In Race 3, we see how Salman Khan donning all black gets out from a monstrous SUV pulling his sleeves up. We then see a missile launcher in his hand and he fires it at couple of cars coming from the opposite direction. Now replace the missile launcher with a machine gun and imagine the last scene of Tiger Zinda Hai trailer. In it, Salman says, “Usmaan, agar tujh mein dum hai toh tu ab mujhe rok ke dikha” and comes out firing a machine gun making the cars explode. We aren’t saying they’re copied or even inspired, it’s just Salman Khan has this aura to boost up scenes like such. Because such scenes can easily fall into a caricaturish zone. The trailer launch of Race 3 was attended by other actors of the film like Anil Kapoor, Jacqueline Fernandez, Bobby Deol, Saqib Saleem along with director Remo D’ Souza and producer Ramesh Turani.

Mumbai-based leading non-profit organization working on the issue of Child Sexual Abuse has engaged Bollywood star Vidya Balan as their goodwill ambassador. She had played the role of Durga Rani Singh a survivor of child sexual abuse, in the movie Kahaani 2, where she saved another child who was being sexually abused by her uncle. Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) is a startling everyday reality for as many as half of the country’s children (National Child Abuse Study 2007). With the ever-increasing reports of child sexual abuse, we know that the scenario is not too different even today. Yet it is still an issue that is barely addressed. There is a limited acceptance that CSA happens and that it has a significant impact on children. CSA can lead to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), depression, anxiety, addictions, and suicidal thoughts and can continue to disrupt the child’s life during adulthood if not healed. Vidya Balan Joins Arpan As Their Goodwill Ambassador Based in Mumbai, Arpan is one of the largest NGOs in India with over 100 social workers and counsellors providing prevention and intervention services to children and adults to address the issue of CSA. Over the last 10 years, Arpan has reached out to over 188,000 children, adolescents and adults directly. Arpan has also trained over 3,500 professionals across India and impacted over 4,60,000 children and adults. Arpan works on prevention of CSA through the Personal Safety Education Programme conducted in schools and communities, Training Programmes for relevant stakeholders, Policy Advocacy to bring in systemic change and healing through their Counselling Services to survivors of CSA. Ms Pooja Taparia, Founder and CEO of Arpan said “It is an honour for Arpan to have a celebrated actor like Vidya Balan as our Goodwill ambassador. Vidya’s roles have always been inspiring and action-oriented. It was a privilege working with her during the making of Kahaani 2. Her role in the movie as Durga Rani Singh, a survivor of child sexual abuse was a powerful one. She wasn’t a silent bystander, but actually took action to protect a girl from Child Sexual Abuse and that’s an inspiring message for all of us. Much like her role in the movie, over the years, Arpan has played a very important role in the lives of numerous children and adults in the prevention of Child Sexual Abuse. With Vidya Balan as our goodwill ambassador, we hope to influence many more people to speak up for prevention of child sexual abuse and to play an active role in creating a safe environment so that our children, the future of our nation, do not become victims of Child Sexual Abuse or have traumatic childhoods but have safe and happy childhoods.” When asked what her message on the issue of Child Sexual Abuse is, Vidya said “My message to everyone is that don’t think that Child Sexual Abuse is something that happens to other’s children. The unfortunate truth is that it could happen to your child or it could be happening to your child. We all need to be vigilant. We all need to be aware and acknowledge when we see the signs. We need to educate our children so that when they experience an unsafe situation, they are empowered enough to get away and seek help from a trusted adult.” What started in 2008 as a nascent organization that reached about 600 people in a year, has now grown to an organization that reaches over 56,000 people annually with the vision of a World Free from Child Sexual Abuse. Arpan is supported by Mr. Rakesh Jhunjhunwala (India), Mr. Karl-Johan Persson (CEO, H&M Worldwide, Sweden), Goldman Sachs (India), Eros International Media (India), The Marshall Foundation (France), GMSP Foundation (UK), The Global Fund for Children (USA), Azim Premji Philanthropic Initiatives (India), A.T.E and Chandra Philanthropic Foundation (India), British Asian Trust (UK), Reliance Foundation (India), Aditya Birla Finance Limited(India), Bajaj Auto Limited (India) amongst others. With Vidya Balan as a goodwill ambassador, here’s hoping that Arpan grows manifold in being able to amplify conversations around the issue Child Sexual Abuse while working diligently on its prevention and healing at the grassroots and systemic level.

Having risen from an actor who began his career with small bits in various films, Nawazuddin Siddiqui has clearly reached a point where he has shown not only his versatility but also the ability to hold films on his own. The actor, who will be seen playing writer Saadat Hasan Manto and late Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray in separate films, says he’s done with cameos. Here for his film Manto“, which features in the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section, Nawazuddin was all praise for the film’s director Nandita Das’ impeccable research. He shies away from naming a favourite director or even sharing his wish list. “If I take names, the others will feel bad about it. As an actor, I only look at stories, script and most importantly my character in the film. There is also a selfishness that works and I think it’s quite normal that I look for characters that will challenge me and push me to the limits,” Nawazuddin told this correspondent. Nawazuddin Siddiqui: “I’m Done With My Quota Of Small Roles” He is clear that there is no room for any more cameo appearances for him.”No, I will not do it anymore (laughs). It’s as simple as that, why will I do them? I am done with my quota of small roles,” he said. Nawazuddin is also venturing into production, taking on projects such as Manto as a co-producer.”There are some upcoming films that I am co-producing as well. My brother is very much into this doing the scouting for me. I definitely want to produce films as well,” he said. He rules out exploring foreign shores for roles, saying he is content with India and the diversity of roles he is getting to do. “For the time being, I am satisfied that all my directors in India are giving me characters that are pretty challenging and I am happy doing those. “Just for the sake of a branding that I am an international star, I would not do that. How many films in the world are like ‘Manto’? Very few. So, I have no such predetermined affiliation for international projects. I am proud of Nandita and a film like this is no way less than any international film.” On him getting typecast, Nawazuddin said: “I think it’s completely a wrong conception. If I am doing (playing) Bal Thackeray and Manto at the same time, how can one say that I am typecast? The Bollywood heroes are typecast, they do the same thing all their life and they are never asked these questions.” “Now the films made in India are allowing actors like us to step in the shoes of lead characters and that makes us versatile. So, those who are still doing this (stretches his hand) are typecast, not me,” he said. The heavy downpour that accompanied the interview perhaps reflected the emotional response of the viewers to Manto at the screening here in Cannes. The actor says the period film clearly touched a chord with the audience at Cannes. “I have seen people crying in the audience, there were people who came out with a very satisfied face. And the best part was I think the film has tried to hit the conscience of people very hard. There were many who came up to me and said that the film was very well timed,” Nawazuddin said.

Actor Vicky Kaushal who turned 30 today, is soaring high with the response of his recent release Raazi. He says, “Raazi has made my birthday special and I want to thank the people who have seen it and are showering us with so much love.” On talking about the appreciation Raazi received he adds, “I’m so happy to read the reviews and see people sharing their feelings on social media after watching the film. This is exactly what we felt after reading the script and we were able to translate that on screen. It’s a surreal feeling.” When asked about his plans on his birthday he said, “I am working. I will be taking off for Serbia in the next 10 days to shoot for my next film, Uri. I’m attending some workshops for it. Today, I’ll be doing a five-hour workshop. Then I might catch up with the Raazi team and meet the media to thank them.

Frances Bean Cobain's and her ex-husband, Isaiah Silva, have finally settled their property dispute, and he will keep one of rock music's most iconic guitars under the agreement. Frances and Isaiah finalized their divorce late last year, but had been arguing over property since then. One of the points of contention was a 1959 Martin D-18E guitar that her father, Kurt Cobain, played on "MTV Unplugged." It's believed to have been the last guitar he played before his death in April 1994. According to TMZ, Isaiah now officially owns the piece of rock history. The website notes that Frances, who lost her dad to suicide when she was only 1, simply wanted Isaiah out of her life for good, and the sooner, the better. Frances, 25, actually did well in the divorce, too, TMZ says. The model doesn't have to pay her ex any spousal support, despite him asking for $25,000 a month. She is also not on the hook for any of his bills, and she gets to keep the house they bought. TMZ reported last year that the guitar was once insured for $1 million and given its ownership history and the fact that the model arrived on the market in 1959 and was discontinued within a year likely means it's worth "several million" dollars today. The bridge and nut on Kurt's Martin guitar had also been replaced to enable Kurt, a lefty, to play it upside down. In 2016, Kurt's widow and Frances mother, Courtney Love, said that guitar is "a treasured heirloom of the family's."

For more than a month now, the investigation of Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, has been a spectacle, a garish pageant of money, sex and politics unfolding both in court and in the court of public opinion. And if anyone can be thought of as the ringmaster in this noisy legal circus, it is Mr. Cohen’s chief nemesis, Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for the pornographic film star Stephanie Clifford. After all, it was Mr. Avenatti who sent Ms. Clifford — better known as Stormy Daniels — into a courtroom in Manhattan last month to sit (in her pink blazer) within sight of Mr. Cohen as part of a publicity stunt that largely seemed designed to needle and unnerve him. It was also Mr. Avenatti who set off a frenzy in the media last week by releasing a report that showed how Mr. Cohen had taken more than $1 million from a firm linked to a wealthy Russian oligarch and from several major companies, including AT&T. As federal prosecutors in Manhattan continue to investigate whether Mr. Cohen broke the law by paying Ms. Clifford to stay silent about an affair she says she had with Mr. Trump, Mr. Avenatti has never once shut up about the case. In a guerrilla-style campaign, he has been on Twitter daily — sometimes almost hourly — talking of Mr. Cohen and has appeared so frequently on television that some have joked that he sleeps at CNN. But while his voluble tactics have won him plaudits among members of the left, many of whom seem to believe that his efforts in the Cohen case might take down Mr. Trump, some legal experts said that his barrage of Trump-like tweets and his all-but-constant media appearances might not be doing Ms. Clifford any favors. “Lawyers do speak publicly to defend their clients, but it’s ordinarily very limited and there’s a good reason for that,” said Stephen Gillers, a professor of legal ethics at the New York University School of Law. “I don’t think Avenatti is truly representing Clifford in his media blitz. It’s not quite legal representation — it’s political representation.” At least for the moment, though, Mr. Avenatti is facing an important legal hurdle — one that he must overcome in order to be given a say inside the courtroom. Recently, he asked the judge in the matter, Kimba M. Wood, to make him a party to the case. Mr. Avenatti has said he wants to join to the case to protect Ms. Clifford’s records, some of which were seized last month when federal agents raided Mr. Cohen’s office, apartment and hotel room. But apparently annoyed by his unconventional methods, Mr. Cohen’s lawyers are fighting his request. In a motion filed last week, the lawyers tried to keep Mr. Avenatti out of the case by telling Judge Wood that he had not only illegally obtained Mr. Cohen’s bank records, but had also misquoted them in his report “for the purpose of creating a toxic mix of misinformation.” In his own motion filed on Monday night, Mr. Avenatti hit back, saying he had “First Amendment rights” to reveal the information about Mr. Cohen and that the lawyers’ efforts to stop him from entering the case were “a highly improper attempt to soil” him. With its reliance on the media and its light-on-the-law ad hominem attacks, Mr. Avenatti’s style of lawyering seems, ironically, to share much with the one employed by Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Trump’s chief lawyer. Mr. Giuliani has also gone on television frequently to defend his client — though perhaps not as successfully as Mr. Avenatti. “My impression is that Avenatti has acquitted himself well on television, especially in contrast to Rudy Giuliani,” said Kathleen Clark, a professor at Washington University Law School who teaches legal ethics. Ms. Clark suggested that Mr. Avenatti, who is raising money to defend Ms. Clifford on a crowdsourcing website has made himself ubiquitous in the media on purpose. “Avenatti’s use of Twitter and his television appearances are unusual, but his omnipresence seems like a strategy,” she said. “He may well be doing all of this to keep his client in the news for public relations purposes and to make money to represent her. To the degree that helps him serve his client’s needs, it’s completely defensible.” Oddly enough, despite Mr. Cohen’s reputation as a legal pit bull and massager of the media, his own team of lawyers has largely avoided talking with reporters, preferring to let their filings in the case speak for them. It is, of course, possible that they have not lashed out as vocally — or as visibly — as Mr. Avenatti has because others have waged their battles for them. On Sunday, for example, the Daily Caller, a conservative website, published an article attacking Mr. Avenatti for having a past “littered with lawsuits, jilted business partners and bankruptcy filings.” A few days earlier, Mr. Giuliani gave an interview to Business Insider, explaining that he had declined Mr. Avenatti’s invitation to debate because, as he put it, “I don’t get involved with pimps.” In typical fashion, Mr. Avenatti immediately struck back, threatening to sue the Daily Caller in an off-the-record email to one of its reporters, Peter J. Hasson, who promptly posted the missive onto Twitter. To Mr. Giuliani, he responded in a tweet that said, “I’m not the only ‘pimp’ you have experience with.”

LeBron James had 42 points, a triple double and maybe a head injury, but he was clear enough in the mind to know that Saturday's upcoming Game 3 will be less about the X's and O's and more about Cleveland's pride and grit. He was asked about his level of concern, a follow up to his statement after Game 1 that he had 'zero' level of concern. He didn't really answer, but he made sure his team knows what's on the line. "We have an opportunity to go home and protect home court," James said. "We going to use these days to really dive in on what we need to do to be successful. They did what they need to do and that was protect home and now is our time to do that as well. We have a few days like I said and we're going to see what we made of on Saturday." James was aggressive as needed, going 16 for 29 from the field on the night. Kevin Love was strong as well, racking up 22 points and 15 rebounds in the loss. But the collective ability and toughness of the Celtics was their undoing on Tuesday as much as LeBron getting clocked. Luckily for them, they have some time until then. But time won't make this Celtics team any less eager to declare that it's their time in the Eastern Conference. The Cavs, and potentially the LeBron James era in Cleveland, are in serious danger.

Jeanette Ortiz — a 14-year Chipotle veteran before she was fired in 2015 — was awarded nearly $8 million by a jury in Fresno County Superior Court for loss of wages, as well as damage to her reputation and emotional and mental distress. On Monday, she and her attorneys settled with Chipotle for a separate, confidential amount — apparently in lieu of punitive damages, which could have run as high as nine times the nearly $8 million award. Thus putting to an end the three-year ordeal that had branded the mother of nine a traitor. “She’s the American Dream; she’s just a hardworking person. And when you call somebody a thief, you destroy their life,” Ortiz’s attorney, Warren Paboojian, told The Post after Monday’s verdict. “That’s the ultimate. You’re not going to be able to get a job anywhere with that label hanging over her head.” Ortiz could not be reached by The Washington Post. Paboojian said she had worked 50 hours a week as a general manager at the Mexican fast-casual chain, making $72,000 a year. When she was fired in January 2015, she was up for a promotion in which she would have earned $100,000 a year. For years, Ortiz had consistently earned glowing performance reviews. Last week’s verdict was first reported by the Fresno Bee. Paboojian said that in fall 2014, the Chipotle location where Ortiz worked had an extra $636, according to court documents, on hand after an armored car that routinely came to swap large bills out for smaller change didn’t show up. Paboojian said Ortiz found the extra money, sealed and stapled it in a manila envelope, and contacted the corporate office to flag the extra cash. She then put the money in a safe in view of a surveillance camera. That December, Ortiz filed a workers’ compensation claim while suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome. Paboojian said her bosses were unhappy that she would be missing work. And Ortiz believed that she was fired because of her disability. On Jan. 3, 2015, Ortiz texted her boss and two other superiors to say the money was missing from the safe, Paboojian said. She told them that she had last seen the money on Dec. 30, along with another assistant manager. At that point, the store brought in another manager who looked at the surveillance footage and said it showed Ortiz taking the money and putting it in her backpack on Dec. 29 — a charge Ortiz denied. When she asked to see the footage, the employees told her that was against corporate policy. But Paboojian said there’s no actual written policy that dictates whether employees can be shown video footage in these cases. “They use that lack of corporate policy as a weapon against their employees when they want to get rid of them,” Paboojian said. In court, Paboojian said her bosses filmed over the tape and deleted text messages and other notes detailing why they fired Ortiz, the Bee reported. Still, Robert Hinckley, Chipotle’s lawyer, told jurors that the company has a policy of not showing video evidence to employees, the Bee reported. Hinckley did not return a request for comment by The Post. On Monday morning, a Chipotle spokesperson told The Post that the company doesn’t comment on pending litigation. The spokesperson did not respond to a follow-up email asking whether it is company policy to not show employees video footage. The spokesperson also did not respond to questions after the case was closed. Paboojian told The Post that surveillance footage in the store tapes over itself periodically. “If you don’t clip parts or save it, you can just let 45 days run and then it just tapes over, and they say ‘oops,’ ” Paboojian said. Last week, Hinckley told jurors that it was a mistake that the footage was lost, according to the Bee. Hinckley told jurors that while Ortiz’s bosses had no ill will toward her, they felt betrayed when she allegedly stole the money because the company had supported her through four pregnancies and four workers’ compensation claims, the Bee reported. “She was well-liked. She was a valued employee. But she violated that trust by taking the money,” Hinckley told the jury, according to the Bee. Hinckley also told jurors that Ortiz was struggling financially around the time her bosses accused her of stealing the cash. Ortiz had borrowed $1,700 from a relative to pay an electric bill, and she had to move from her house to a smaller apartment. Ortiz also told a colleague that she had taken on a second job, the Bee reported. But in court, Paboojian noted that just because people are strapped for cash doesn’t mean they are thieves. Paboojian told The Post that four other people had access to the safe. The money still has not been recovered. By Paboojian’s recollection, the total damages awarded to Ortiz were Fresno County’s the second-largest employment verdict. “It’s a large verdict, but it’s large because of the impact that an employer can have on somebody when they call them a thief,” Paboojian said. Since she was fired, Ortiz has not been able to find work, Paboojian said. Whenever she applied for jobs, she would have to note on her résumé that she was terminated and tell potential employers that she was fired for stealing. Chipotle did not know whether any of Ortiz’s bosses would face any punishment. “We’ll have to wait and see,” Paboojian said. “That’s up to Chipotle.”

An 11-year-old girl in New York, who was helping her mother unpack their car during a powerful storm, was killed when a tree snapped and fell onto their vehicle. The girl’s mother had just parked the family SUV at their Newburgh City home when violent wind gusts toppled a tree and trapped the girl inside, FOX5 NY reported. Newburgh is about 60 miles north of New York City. "The mother was on the porch, crying, 'My daughter, my daughter,'" Ramon Rodriguez, a witness, told NBC News 4 New York. "It kind of gave me a chill when I first saw it." Firefighters responded and used power tools in an attempt to cut away the tree, FOX5 NY reported. The mother stood outside the car in tears as the fire department worked. “Suddenly it turned into a nightmare,” a resident told the station. “All Newburgh was horrible.” The girl was pulled from the car and taken to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead. The mother suffered minor injuries. Neighbors told News12 that the family had usually parked the SUV on the other side of the lot outside their home. Police were withholding the identities of the mother and daughter as of Tuesday night. The torrential rain and destructive winds hit Newburgh—located about 70 miles north of New York City—especially hard, knocking out power and collapsing structures around the city. The storm also has been blamed for the death of a Connecticut man who was killed when a tree fell onto the truck he was taking shelter in. In its wake, the storm knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of homes, downed trees and electrical wires, sparked fires, washed out roads and left commuters stranded for most of the evening.

PGA Tour player Lucas Glover was attacked by his wife during the Players Championship, according to police reports. Following the tournament's third round, Krista Glover was arrested and charged with domestic battery and resisting arrest. Police arrived to a residence rented by the Glovers on Saturday night due to a disturbance 911 call. A document from the St. Johns County Sheriff's department states Lucas was berated by his wife for his poor play (he shot a third-round 78 for a MDF—made cut, did not finish). In the report. Lucas told deputies "when he plays a bad round of golf, Krista proceeds to start an altercation with him and telling him how he is a loser and a p***y, how he needs to fire everyone, and how he'd better win or her and the kids would leave him and he would never see the kids again." The police report said Lucas was tired of these altercations, but simultaneously tried to dissuade officials from arresting Krista. Police noted multiple lacerations to both Lucas and his 62-year-old mother, who had blood on her shirt and said she was hit in the chest. Krista told police she had been attacked by Lucas' mother, but police reported no visible injuries. Police officials noted in the report that Krista resisted them, refusing to get in the squad car by "blocking herself from sitting down." She reportedly attempted to wrap her legs around the car door, but deputies were able to push her in. Krista reportedly damaged the inside of the vehicle by kicking the door. During the transportation process, the report states Krista's handcuffs were loosened and she attempted to flea. Two lawmen were able to re-handcuff her. The report also states Krista berated the police, using threatening language. Lucas informed officers that Krista had been drinking. The altercation allegedly occurred in front of their children. On Tuesday afternoon, Lucas posted the following message on Twitter: "On May 12, my wife and mother were involved in an argument to which the police were called. Everyone is fine. Regrettably, although Krista was charged, we are comfortable that the judicial system is able to address what actually happened and Krista will be cleared in this private matter. We thank you for respecting our privacy as we work through this unfortunate situation." Glover, who won the 2009 U.S. Open, married Krista in 2012. Glover is not in this week's AT&T Byron Nelson field.

On a hot morning in June 2012, Junxiu Wang and his son awoke in the city of Guangzhou, northwest of Hong Kong, and started their day. Wang was working a short-term job in Guangzhou and had taken his 14-year-old son, Yesong, with him. The pair ate breakfast, then Wang went to use the bathroom. When he came out, Yesong was gone. The father was immediately worried. Yesong, his middle child, had Down syndrome and was unable to speak. Wang called the boy’s aunt, thinking he might have gone to visit her, but he wasn’t there. Growing increasingly anxious, he went to a nearby subway station and asked if anyone had seen his son. A vendor and a security guard reported seeing a boy who looked like Yesong carrying a bag. Wang’s fears intensified. If his son ventured very far away, he knew, he would not be able to find his way back. It would be almost four agonizing years until Wang found out what happened to his son. The answer would involve an exhaustive search, a dedicated nonprofit director, a popular Chinese reality show, Microsoft facial recognition technology and a father who never gave up hope. And their story was just the beginning. The technology is now helping other families find much-needed answers and has powerful potential for addressing an issue that has long plagued China. There are 64,000 cases on the website of Baobei Huijia (Baby Come Home), a leading nonprofit organization launched in 2007 that is dedicated to finding missing children. In 2015, Eric Zhou was thinking about how technology might be used to more effectively combat human trafficking. Zhou is a Shanghai-based senior business intelligence manager for the Digital Crimes Unit in Microsoft’s Corporate, External & Legal Affairs group in China, which uses data analytics to fight cybercrime and protect vulnerable populations, including children. He came up with a project for Microsoft’s annual worldwide employee Hackathon, enlisting his friend Kevin Liu from the Microsoft Support Engineering Group to develop an application that could help find China’s missing children. The effort resulted in the creation of Photo Missing Children, or PhotoMC, an application designed to help find missing children through Microsoft’s face recognition application program interface (API). The Microsoft Face API is a cloud-based service that uses advanced algorithms to scan images of faces for identifying features and determines the likelihood that two faces belong to the same person. It can scan a database of thousands of faces and return a list of possible matches within seconds. The API analyzes 27 different facial characteristics and can identify a person across multiple photos, even at different angles and with varying facial expressions. The technology is part of Microsoft Cognitive Services a collection of tools that allow developers to add features such as emotion detection, vision and speech recognition and language understanding to applications across devices and platforms. Zhou approached Crossing Wang, Microsoft China Philanthropies lead, to connect him with an organization that could put PhotoMC to use. “When Eric brought this idea to us, we thought it was a good opportunity to support his project and apply it in the real world,” she says. “We wanted to do something to help families.” Crossing Wang’s team reached out to Baby Come Home, which runs a website that allows people to upload photos in various categories — parents can upload photos of their missing children, and others can upload photos they take of children they come across who might be missing or abducted. The Microsoft team offered to make PhotoMC available to Baby Come Home, but the organization’s founder, Baoyan Zhang, was initially skeptical. Other companies had made similar offers, she says, but they typically didn’t follow through or seemed primarily interested in seeking publicity. Or the companies would realize after a few conversations that their technology could not address a primary challenge of locating missing children — cross-age facial recognition. “Those children may have gone missing at the age of 3 or 4, but they maybe are 20- or 30-something when we look for them,” Zhang says. “So after a few contacts, we felt it was a waste of time, and we declined some other cooperation requests after that.” But Zhang believed facial recognition technology offered the most promise for finding missing children, and she figured if any company could come up with an effective tool, it was Microsoft. Also, her organization needed help. Baby Come Home has found more than 1,900 missing children in the past few years, but the work has been time-intensive and difficult. The organization’s dozen employees were overwhelmed with the task of manually sorting through thousands of images of missing children on a government website and trying to find matches for the 60,000-plus photos of missing children and adults in Baby Come Home’s databases. “Those children may have gone missing at the age of 3 or 4, but they maybe are 20- or 30-something when we look for them,” Zhang says. “So after a few contacts, we felt it was a waste of time, and we declined some other cooperation requests after that.” But Zhang believed facial recognition technology offered the most promise for finding missing children, and she figured if any company could come up with an effective tool, it was Microsoft. Also, her organization needed help. Baby Come Home has found more than 1,900 missing children in the past few years, but the work has been time-intensive and difficult. The organization’s dozen employees were overwhelmed with the task of manually sorting through thousands of images of missing children on a government website and trying to find matches for the 60,000-plus photos of missing children and adults in Baby Come Home’s databases. Unless children have distinguishing features, like unusual teeth or distinctively curved eyebrows, changes in appearance over time can make it hard to recognize them. And after looking at images for too long, fatigue sets in and accuracy drops. Facial recognition technology offered new promise by reducing human error and making the search process almost instantaneous. The Microsoft team first met with Zhang in August 2015, and based on feedback from the organization, spent about a month modifying and customizing PhotoMC to make it more effective. The changes included creating the ability to separate information about parents looking for their children and children looking for their parents into discrete databases that then could be compared for possible matches, and the capacity to import more photos. In December 2015, after additional changes to improve performance and several training sessions, Baby Come Home started using the new tool. Then, when an at-risk child was spotted, a photo of the child could be uploaded to the organization’s website and PhotoMC would search for matches. Zhang was hopeful. “(I thought that) facial recognition technology would definitely be a great help to us, if it worked out this time,” she says. In the days after Yesong disappeared, Junxiu Wang searched at subway stations and youth shelters in the area. He walked the streets of Guangzhou, desperately hoping to find his son. But in a city of more than 14 million, the chances of spotting him were almost nonexistent. The anguished father put notices in newspapers and on television. He contacted China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs in Beijing and asked for help. Weeks and months stretched by with no leads, but Wang clung to the belief that his son was still alive. And as long as Yesong was alive, Wang would not stop looking for his boy. Yesong had been missing about three years when Wang found Baby Come Home’s website and decided to go visit Zhang to ask for her help. In July 2015, he took a train from Guangzhou to Tonghua City in northeast China, almost 1,900 miles away. Wang arrived at the organization’s office exhausted and soaked, carrying a large jackfruit and a box of taro as gifts. After he left, Zhang opened the jackfruit and discovered it was rotten. She wondered how long the father had traveled to get there. “It made our hearts ache to see him like that,” she says, recalling how employees’ eyes would fill with tears at the thought of Wang. Six months after Wang’s visit, in January 2016, China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs launched a new website to publish information about children living in shelters across the country. Baby Come Home ran the photo of Yesong that his father provided against 13,000 images on the government site, and within seconds, PhotoMC came up with a list of 20 possible matches. One was a boy living in a government-run shelter in the Panyu district of Guangdong City, about 24 miles from where Yesong went missing. Zhang wondered, could the boy be Yesong? The father looked at the matching photos and immediately identified his son. He provided a DNA sample, which was matched against a sample from the boy at the shelter. Arrangements were made to bring Wang and the boy together on the popular Chinese television show “Waiting for Me.” The show, which runs on China’s predominant state broadcaster, China Central Television (CCTV), aims to help people find missing children or other loved ones and is produced in partnership with Baby Come Home. The audience and the relative wait in suspense for the opening of a large set of doors, behind which is either the missing person or a police officer who discusses the unsuccessful search. In February 2016, Wang sat in a chair on the show’s stage, his hands clasped nervously in his lap. The doors opened slowly to reveal Yesong, who by that time was 17. Wang exhaled audibly and crossed the stage, crying as he clasped his son to him. At first, Yesong didn’t recognize his father, Wang says. But within a month, he says, Yesong readjusted to being home with his parents and two siblings and is now doing well. Crossing Wang, who is not related to the family, recently visited them and says Yesong’s parents told her that he was withdrawn while he was at the shelter but has become more outgoing since returning home and enjoys helping people. He goes to a local supermarket every day to help out, she says, gathering shopping carts and working with employees to organize items. “His neighbors and the staff at the supermarket like him very much,” Crossing Wang says. “If he was still in the shelter, his life would be totally different.” Yesong was the first missing child found with the help of PhotoMC, but the application has since helped find four other missing boys in China and several other possible matches are being followed up on and verified. One of the boys, a developmentally disabled 17-year-old, was lost in April 2015 in Beijing and had been living in a shelter. Baby Come Home found him with PhotoMC, and on April 28 he went home with his parents. Another 17-year-old, also with limited ability to communicate, went missing in January 2014 in Guangzhou. His parents recently registered his information on Baby Come Home’s website, and PhotoMC quickly found a match with a boy who had been taken in by a shelter two years ago. The relieved parents visited the teen in the shelter at the end of April and were expecting to take him home as soon as DNA results were verified. The third boy, a 16-year-old who has a mild intellectual disability, went missing while playing outdoors in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province. On May 8, Baby Come Home used PhotoMC to find a match with a boy living in a shelter 60 miles away. It was the missing teen, whose parents picked him up the following day and took him home. And another boy, who has autism, was found May 18 in a shelter 30 miles from his grandparents’ home in Fuzhou after running away more than three years earlier. His grandfather went to the shelter and confirmed the boy is his grandson. Microsoft is continuing to work with Baby Come Home to refine PhotoMC, which was developed in collaboration with Microsoft Research Asia and the Microsoft Cloud & Enterprise China group. Seeing Yesong reunited with his father was a touching moment for everyone involved, Zhou says, and the team hopes the application can help bring answers to many more families. “We feel very good that our technology can help,” Zhou says. “We are proud that we helped these families be reunited.” A special message from MSN: This month we're working with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the Missing Children Society of Canada, and Baby Come Home to help reunite kids with their families. Together, we're making progress. Baby Come Home is using Microsoft facial recognition to identify missing kids in crowds, for instance, and the Missing Children Society of Canada has scaled its powerful social media tools to millions more people using the Microsoft cloud. You can help, too. 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