Katy Perry has won a years-long trademark battle with an Australian designer. The Firework hitmaker has triumphed in a long-running legal battle with Australian fashion designer Katie Taylor, who sells clothes under her birth name and brand Katie Perry. Taylor began proceedings after the singer started selling merchandise Down Under and she initially won the […]
Boy George has admitted he regrets the comments he made about Liam Payne before he died. The singer was speaking on the High Performance podcast when he reflected on a comment he’d made on social media about Liam a few days before he died. “I’d actually put a message under a post saying, ‘He’s off […]
JERUSALEM — Israel’s military said on Friday it had killed two commanders involved in Hamas’ October 7, 2023, attack, pressing its north Gaza offensive a day after the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants over the war. With Israel also fighting Hamas ally Hezbollah in Lebanon, live AFPTV footage showed several strikes early Friday on Beirut’s […]
Billie Eilish was announced as Apple Music’s Artist of the Year, recognising the singer-songwriter’s extraordinary impact throughout 2024. Following a historic second Academy Award win and two additional GRAMMY Awards for her contribution to Greta Gerwig’s feature-length film Barbie, “What Was I Made For?”, Billie released her third full-length album, HIT ME HARD AND SOFT. […]
Elton John’s Broadway musical has been axed, less than one week after its launch. The show, based on televangelist Tammy Faye Messner’s life story, launched on 14 November but struggled to sell tickets after poor early reviews. Elton, 77, wrote the music for the show while Scissor Sisters’ Jake Shears, 46, penned the lyrics. Despite […]
Cher has revealed that Tina Turner turned to her for help while struggling in an abusive relationship. Late singer Turner, who passed away in May last year at the age of 83, was famously abused by vicious ex-husband Ike. In her memoir, Cher: The Memoir, Part One, the Strong Enough singer recounts helping The Best […]
Zoe Saldaña won an award for her standout musical number in Emilia Pérez in Los Angeles on Wednesday. The Avatar actress took home the award for Song – Onscreen Performance (Film) at the 2024 Hollywood Music in Media Awards for her performance in the El Mal (The Evil) sequence in the Spanish-language crime musical. Saldaña […]
Lady Gaga, Green Day and Post Malone have been announced as headline acts for Coachella 2025. The lineup for the April festival is usually announced in April. However, the acts were announced early after Post Malone revealed a poster to announce his stadium tour dates that also had Coachella dates. Lady Gaga will top the […]
U.S. regulators want a federal judge to break up Google to prevent the company from continuing to squash competition through its dominant search engine after a court found it had maintained an abusive monopoly over the past decade. The proposed breakup floated in a 23-page document filed late Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Justice […]
MANILA, PHILIPPINES — The death toll from Super Typhoon Man-yi in the Philippines has risen to 12, the national disaster agency said Thursday as widespread flooding subsided. Man-yi submerged villages and smashed flimsy buildings in the archipelago nation over the weekend, packing maximum sustained wind speeds of 185 kilometres (115 miles) an hour. It was the […]
