The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Tuesday announced a public auction of six Bahria Town properties in Rawalpindi and Islamabad on June 12. The development adds on to NAB’s previous actions against property tycoon Malik Riaz, who owns Bahria Town and is an absconder in the £190 million Al Qadir Trust Case. In a notification today, NAB listed six properties …
Pop sensation Taylor Swift, who was locked in a feud with record executives since 2019 over ownership of her music, has bought back the rights to her entire back catalog, she said Friday. “All of the music I’ve ever made … now belongs … to me,” she wrote on her website, after years of disputes over her first six albums, …
Model Hailey Bieber’s makeup and skincare brand, Rhode, is being snapped up by e.l.f. Beauty for about $1 billion, giving the budget cosmetic retailer access to a celebrity-endorsed product line that has become hugely popular among Gen Z and millennials. e.l.f. said on Wednesday it would pay Rhode shareholders $800 million in a combination of cash and stock and an …
Nearly 380 writers from the UK and Ireland, including Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan, penned an open letter on Wednesday denouncing Israel’s genocide in Gaza and urging a ceasefire. The letter called on “our nations and the peoples of the world to join us in ending our collective silence and inaction in the face of horror,” they wrote in a …
Pop star Dua Lipa joined some 300 UK celebrities in signing an open letter on Thursday urging Britain to halt arms sales to Israel, after similar pleas from lawyers and writers. Actors, musicians, activists and other public figures wrote the letter calling on Prime Minister Keir Starmer to “end the UK’s complicity in the horrors in Gaza”. British-Albanian pop sensation …
