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 ...

Almost anybody with internet access knows what Barkhad Abdi’s face looks like, even if they haven’t seen his movies. “I am the captain now,” goes the dialogue paired with his threatening visage. If ...

GRAND FORKS, N.D. - A Somali man who earned a pivotal part in the new Tom Hanks movie, "Captain Phillips," is making North Dakota his new home. For 20-year-old Mahat Ali, it may seem an improbable ...

“Captain Phillips” is based off Captain Richard Phillips’s accounts from his book, “A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at Sea.” I was skeptic when I came to see this film ...

The saga of Captain Richard Phillips, the Massachusetts seafarer kidnapped by four Somali pirates during a routine cargo ship gig in 2009, took place under media scrutiny and played out like a high ...