Me and Michael had our own language,” says Harrison Funk. “The buzzword was always the same. He would ask, ‘Harrison, can you make magic?’ Anything less wasn’t acceptable.” Funk was the photographer who got closer to Michael Jackson than any other, working with the singer from the late 1970s right up until his death in June 2009, […]

Stormy Daniels is slipping into a new role: lingerie designer. The adult film actress — famous for her alleged affair with Donald Trump — is launching a high-end lingerie line with Helen Hoey of Pulchra Intimates, which has locations in Pittsburgh and Beverly Hills, Calif. Hoey tells The New York Post that the line is in the […]

Prince William’s 36th birthday is just around the corner. The royal and father of three, who is one of two children born to the late Diana, Princess of Wales, was born on June 21, 1982. Ahead of his big day, read on for some fun facts you may not be aware of. He made history […]

Apple  has been fined AUS$9M (~$6.6M) by a court in Australia following a legal challenge by a consumer rights group related to the company’s response after iOS updates bricked devices that had been repaired by third parties. The Australian Competitor and Consumer Commission (ACCC) invested a series of complaints relating to an error (‘error 53’) which disabled […]

This oasis at the foot of the Atlas Mountains is the result of a Moroccan man’s wish for his family to create a project in his hometown. Saida and Abdeslam Bennani Smires made their grandfather’s dream come true — while adding their own passion. This is how the Selman Marrakech palace hotel and stud farm was brought […]

Starbucks, the world’s largest coffee chain, will close 150 underperforming U.S locations in fiscal year 2019. That’s about three times its historical average, and the news comes just before executive chairman and co-founder Howard Schultz plans to step away from his role in the company on June 26. Starbucks hasn’t met experts’ estimates for same-store […]

Marriage may protect against the development of heart disease/stroke as well as influencing who is more likely to die of it, suggests a pooled analysis of the available data, published online in the journal Heart. The findings prompt the researchers to suggest that marital status should be included as a risk factor for heart disease/stroke and […]

The rise of blockchain technology is fueling demand in relevant skill sets, with institutes and countries around the world launching educational initiatives. The latest to introduce such a program is the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. In collaboration with American technology giant IBM, India’s National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) launched a 12-week online course on blockchain architecture, […]

Add Akon to the list of celebrities who are launching their own cryptocurrencies. The 45-year-old “Smack It” singer announced Monday at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity that he not only is launching his own crypto, “Akoin,” but also will use it in his Akon Crypto City, a 100 percent crypto-based city in Africa. First […]

US President Donald Trump has promised action to “keep families together” amid fury over separations of undocumented child migrants from adults. “I’ll be signing something in a little while that’s going to do that,” he told reporters at the White House. The Department of Homeland Security has reportedly drafted an executive order to stop the […]