September 25, 2023
Usher says he was too thrilled to hear from his “big homie” Jay-Z after scoring the honor of headlining the upcoming Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show in February. On Sunday, the NFL confirmed the news in a hilarious promo video posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, featuring Kim Kardashian. The Skims founder made headlines
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The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) on Friday said it was close to finally approving Microsoft‘s $69-billion bid for “Call of Duty” video game maker Activision Blizzard after the deal addressed regulatory concerns. CMA said in a statement that “the restructured deal makes important changes” and “opens the door to the deal being cleared”.
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Chicago quarterback Justin Fields complains quietly: too much information in his ear. The crowd in Pittsburgh complains loudly: get rid of Steelers offensive coordinator Matt Canada. Through the first two weeks of the NFL season, a lot of confounded teams are groping for ways to move the football. Cincinnati, two years removed from the Super
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Back to the Bush Founder Armen Arakelian says hazard reduction burns are “not being done” and the current ones are “just for show”. Mr Arakelian sat down with Sky News host Peta Credlin to discuss how the burns are a way of showing the public they are being done but criticises them as “micro burns”.
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I wish I had not been startled by the words. Alas, the modern announcer has been trained to be inoffensive above all. Seldom is heard a discouraging word, at least about the home team. Tell it like it is, unless it might upset team executives or players. Not that Charley Steiner or Rick Monday, the
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Receive free Chinese economy updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Chinese economy news every morning. What is the economic future of China? Will it become a high-income economy and so, inevitably, the largest in the world for an extended period, or will it be stuck in the “middle
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Bunnings has been urged to immediately pull a range of trendy kitchen benchtops that have been linked to an incurable disease that’s killing tradies. The national construction union have taken their demands directly to the hardware giant’s chief executive Michael Schneider, warning it was “unconscionable” to keep engineered stone benchtops on Bunnings’ product line up.
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As the death toll climbs following catastrophic flooding in Libya, there is growing sadness among the Libyan community in Australia. Many are anxiously awaiting news of their loved ones, as hope of finding more survivors continues to fade. For Faisel Tubbal and his friends, social media has always been a comforting link to family in
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It seems some “Wheel of Fortune” fans felt a contestant’s emotional outburst was justified. On Wednesday’s episode of the long-running game show, contestant Laryn Nelson — a very spirited elementary school principal from Atlanta — screamed and pouted so passionately when she realized she had lost a car for failing the bonus round that she
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The Boks’ failure to blood a young hooker over the last few years has now left the World Cup squad with a big decision to make. The Springboks are set to pay a steep price after it was confirmed on Thursday that hooker Malcolm Marx has been ruled out of the rest of the Rugby
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