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NRL quarterback Trevor Lawrence and YouTube influencers Kevin Paffrath and Tom Nash have reportedly settled a lawsuit over alleged inadequate compensation disclosure in their promotions for the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX.

A group of Indigenous Australian Rules football players, led by 1980s legend Phil Krakouer, launched a landmark class action against the AFL on Friday, claiming the game failed to protect players from vile racial abuse on the field that resulted in life-altering damage.

(Bloomberg) — A group of Hollywood A-listers including Mark Ruffalo and Joaquin Phoenix are calling on the Toronto International Film Festival to drop the Royal Bank of Canada as a sponsor, calling the firm “one of the most polluting companies” in Canada.

New Delhi: Meta Platforms-owned instant messaging service WhatsApp has announced the launch of WhatsApp Channels in India and over 150 countries. These will deliver private updates from organizations, sports teams, artists, and thought leaders that people can follow. WhatsApp Channels are a one-way broadcast tool within the app, the company said in a statement.

Several major Japanese companies have decided to stop using stars represented by Johnny & Associates, an entertainment company at the center of a sexual assault scandal

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A Ripple executive is facing opposition from three renowned Harry Potter film stars over London home renovation plans. 

Jimmy Buffett's last album, "Equal Strain on All Parts," is scheduled to release on November 3 via the Sun label. The album comprises 14 songs and features guest appearances from Paul McCartney, Emmylou Harris, Angelique Kidjo and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Three preview tracks, «Like My Dog,» «Bubbles Up,» and «My Gummie Just Kicked In» (featuring McCartney on bass), were released on streaming platforms last Friday. Buffett had been active in the studio throughout 2023 and reportedly completed the album before his cancer took a turn for the worse.

Sea of Stars, the latest creation from Studio Sabotage, has quickly gained popularity, selling 100,000 copies within just one day and earning praise even before its release. Drawing inspiration from classic titles like Chrono Trigger and Breath of Fire, the game promises an unforgettable adventure. Apart from the main storyline, players can engage in various side activities, including hunting collectibles, participating in mini-games and tackling side quests. Yet, one burning question remains: does Sea of Stars feature a New Game Plus mode? The answer is a resounding yes. The addition of the New Game Plus mode became possible thanks to the team's successful Kickstarter campaign, hitting their stretch goal. This exciting feature is available right from the game's launch for those who complete the main story.

Breaking Bad" has reunited to call upon Hollywood studios to resume negotiations with striking screen actors. «We want you to come back to the table with us,» Bryan Cranston said in a plea to the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers outside Sony Pictures Studios on Tuesday. Cranston was joined by Aaron Paul, Jesse Plemons and other members of the «Breaking Bad» universe in an effort to energise picket lines more than a month after SAG-AFTRA joined striking Hollywood writers. Both guilds are seeking to address issues brought about by the dominance of streaming services, which have changed all aspects of production and pay in the industry. «The way things were structured 10 years ago made a lot of sense and it made it more possible for journeymen-type actors, actors in the middle that are working just as a hard or harder,» Plemons said. By its final season, which aired more than a decade ago, «Breaking Bad» was one of the most watched and highest rated cable TV shows ever. The AMC hit series has achieved enduring popularity on Netflix, but its stars say that has not been reflected in their pay. «I don't get a piece from Netflix on 'Breaking Bad' to be totally honest and that's insane to me,» Paul said.

A post shared by Shahid Afridi (@safridiofficial) Three possible high-octane India versus Pakistan games for the starved fans on both sides of the border along with a final chance for five nations to put their respective houses in order before the World Cup adds context to Asia Cup, starting in Multan on Wednesday. It is a tournament that has often struggled to find relevance in the midst of mushrooming bilateral contests over the last decade along with waning popularity of ODI cricket but the 2023 edition, beginning on Wednesday, has occupied a large slice of the mind space of team think tanks.

Netflix has pulled back the curtain on its upcoming biographical film «Rustin» with the release of an evocative teaser trailer and poster. The film, starring the Emmy Award-winning Colman Domingo, sheds light on the life and contributions of Bayard Rustin, a pivotal figure behind the historic 1963 March on Washington.

Hindi film industry. From making contentious comments about Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan, and director Karan Johar to dissing the film industry altogether, Vivek Agnihotri has in his latest outburst called all the stars he worked with in Bollywood ‘dumb’. Vivek Agnihotri, whose The Kashmir Files won the Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration in the 69th National Film Awards held on 24 August, in a podcast claimed that he is ‘far more intelligent’ than all the stars he worked with.

India was over the moon about landing on the Moon. And it was also the moment when a few hundred avowedly nerdy looking scientists at the mission control centre at Sriharikota became the darlings of over a billion proud Indians around the world. For once these Indians' adulation was not directed at a galaxy of cinema or sports superstars with their expensively maintained, sleek faces and bodies but at rows of exceedingly ordinary looking men and women, made extraordinary by the dint of their achievement: creating a totally indigenous mooncraft (Chandrayaan) that made a perfect landing on the Moon's south pole, a feat that no other nation has pulled off.

Jasprit Bumrah will be cynosure of all eyes when he leads India against Ireland as the fast bowler's fitness and rhythm will be tested in the three-match T20 International series, starting Friday. The team is packed with India's Gen-Next IPL performers like Ruturaj Gaikwad, Rinku Singh and Jitesh Sharma but stakeholders in Indian cricket will keenly observe Bumrah, who will be key to home team's plans during the ODI World Cup starting in less than two months.

The US Masters T10 League has received a boost with three American sports stars acquiring equity stakes in the US Masters T10 League franchises.

Venkatesh Prasad has come down heavily on Team India's performance after Hardik Pandya's boys lost to West Indies in the second ODI. In a series of post on social media platform X, which was Twitter earlier, Venkatesh Prasad said India's performance in ODIs and T20 has been very ordinary for quite sometime now. India is yet to win a ICC trophy since 2013 Champions Trophy triumph.

New Delhi: Top film stars, traditionally cast in lead roles, are agreeing to play negative characters in high-budget, multilingual projects primarily outside their home market, in a new emerging trend. Emraan Hashmi, for instance, is set to portray the antagonist in Telugu star Pawan Kalyan’s upcoming project, while Sanjay Dutt will take on a similar role in Tamil star Vijay’s Leo.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Nestled within the Vela constellation and situated 1,470 light-years away, these stars continue to actively form and revolve around each other. Over the past decades, Herbig-Haro 46/47 has been the subject of extensive study and observation by various space and ground-based telescopes. However, it is the James Webb Space Telescope that has now delivered the most detailed and highest-resolution image in near-infrared light. Webb's unique capabilities allow it to penetrate the obscuring nebula encompassing the stars, revealing a gas and dust-filled environment that remains invisible in visible-light images taken by other telescopes.

Todd and Julie Chrisley of «Chrisley Knows Best» are currently serving prison sentences for bank fraud and tax evasion. However, the conditions they are facing behind bars have now come under scrutiny. According to their children, Savannah and Chase, the couple is enduring «inhumane conditions» that are nothing short of a «nightmare.» With allegations of no air conditioning in extreme temperatures, rattlesnakes in cells, and hazardous substances like mold and asbestos, the Chrisley siblings shed light on the concerning living conditions in their parents' prisons. Son Chase recently revealed on his sister Savannah's podcast that both their parents are serving time in facilities with no air conditioning. In regions where temperatures can soar above 100 degrees, this absence of basic comfort raises significant concerns about the inmates' well-being.

Emerging star Mary Fowler has been ruled out of the Matildas’ Women’s World Cup clash against Nigeria with a concussion.