The day her father and dozens of other men were convicted of raping her mother in a trial that had gripped France was an acute personal tragedy to Caroline Darian. She escaped the Avignon courthouse and was enveloped in a giant crowd of women blocking traffic and chanting their love and gratitude for her and…
The average annual salary for a female professional football player globally is $10,900 USD (£8,400 GBP, $17,000 AUD), says Fifa’s annual report on the women’s game, a figure skewed by a small number of top clubs. Among the teams Fifa designated as Tier 1, which includes 41 clubs from 16 countries, the average salary was…
Did Jennifer Lawrence & Cooke Maroney welcome their second child already? They stepped out in NYC over the weekend. [Just Jared]Caftan-clad Parker Posey is coming for all of the awards! [Go Fug Yourself]The trailer for Freakier Friday, featuring Lindsay Lohan’s new face. [OMG Blog]Kanye West is still terrorizing Kim Kardashian. [Socialite Life]Ted Lasso is coming…
Émilie Dequenne, who won best actress honors at age 17 at the Cannes Film Festival for her role in the Belgian film “Rosetta,” died on Sunday in Villejuif, France. She was 43. Her death, at a hospital, was confirmed by Marie-Laure Calmette, an assistant to Ms. Dequenne’s longtime agent, Danielle Gain. Ms. Dequenne had been…
How a one word mindset can supercharge your brand. It’s fair to say that 2025 continues to fly out the blocks on a wild mission to bring even higher levels of change, unpredictability, and flux shaping our world.
In-demand British R&B boyband No Guidnce take ownership of their musical destiny in a major way this week, with the release of their exceptional new EP ‘Confessions of a Loverboy’. Made up of 5 innovative soul infused, 90s-inspired tracks, the extended play presents as a a bold and emotionally charged statement, that blending classic rhythm and…
It seems like every day recently, something new lands in the news cycle—sometimes contradicting what was announced a few hours before. Tariffs are on. Now they’re off again. The nuclear safety experts have been fired. Now they’re hired again. Funding for Ebola has been frozen. No it hasn’t. Wait, maybe it has?
Israeli forces launched a large-scale strike across the Gaza Strip early Tuesday, in what appeared to be the first major attack on the territory since Israel’s cease-fire with Hamas began roughly two months ago. The Israeli Defense Forces said on Telegram just before 2:30 a.m. local time that it and the Israeli Security Agency were…
Google’s parent company Alphabet is again in advanced talks to acquire cloud cybersecurity startup Wiz, a person familiar with the deal told TechCrunch. The two companies were close to securing a deal at a $23 billion valuation last summer, but the transaction failed to materialize. This time, the price being discussed is higher, the person…
The Major League Baseball season officially starts with a two-game series between the defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs, opening Tuesday in Tokyo. Among many other things, this series brings the biggest baseball star in the world, Shohei Ohtani, to his home country to start the season following his third MVP award. The…
