Kansas State basketball's 3-point specialist from the 2025-26 season will enter the transfer portal after a year with the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One day, Barkhad Abdi was driving taxicabs in Minneapolis and the next, he was on movie sets in Malta and Morocco, making his ...

Abdi Sharif, 18, went missing on Jan 17 from the Merle Hay Target after his shift. Authorities aren't ruling out foul play. On Jan. 20, the Des Moines Police Department announces a missing person case ...

Barkhad Abdi is in the running for Oscar gold Sunday, but actual wealth eludes him. Abdi has been widely praised for his role in “Captain Phillips” as the desperate pirate Muse, and even ad-libbed the ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) --Barkhad Abdi, the Somali immigrant who was a Twin Cities limo driver before playing a pirate in "Captain Phillips," won an award at the British Academy Awards over the weekend.

Ugbad Abdi has had, by all accounts, an extraordinary life. Born in Kismayo, Somalia, she spent her early years in a refugee camp in Kenya, then resettled with her family in Des Moines, with the help ...

Barkhad Abdi, 28, was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Supporting Actor category this morning for his role as a Somali pirate in "Captain Phillips." The role was Abdi's first acting gig — ...

The best supporting actor Oscar nominee was only paid $65,000 for his role in the Sony film, which he shot more than two years ago, and many of his clothes for the awards circuit were rented. By ...