The new owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, has decided that to have their account certified as authentic, users of the network will have to pay eight dollars a month. This subscription will offer them certain advantages: priority publications, longer videos and audio messages, and less advertising. The social network has been offering a subscription to paid features since last year, but the general manager wants a new, more expensive and adapted offer , which will diversify the platform's sources of income. So he's considering merging Twitter Blue — a $5-a-month subscription for a more comfortable reading mode and editing tools — with the ability for eligible accounts to have their identity verified and certified. Elon Musk asked his engineers to...
The Spanish public prosecutor's office on Friday dropped all charges of fraud and corruption against Brazilian footballer Neymar and eight other people in connection with the transfer of the player from Santos to FC Barcelona in 2013, the public prosecutor announced in court. Speaking at one of the last hearings of this trial, the prosecutor announced "withdraw the accusation against all the defendants and for all the facts" with which they are accused. The prosecution initially requested two years in prison and ten million euros in fines against the Brazilian star accused of corruption. In addition to Neymar and his parents, two ex-presidents of Barça – Sandro Rosell and Josep María Bartomeu – and an ex-manager of the Brazilian club...
The American rapper is no longer a billionaire. The American star was, according to Forbes, one of the greatest fortunes of global show business . With an estimated net worth of nearly $2 billion, Kanye West was one of a dozen celebrity dollar billionaires behind George Lucas ($10 billion), Steven Speilberg ($8 billion) but ahead of Rihanna ($1.7 billion), Jay-Z (1.3 billion), Paul McCartney (1.2 billion) or even JK Rowling (1 billion). For the past few days, the one now called "Ye" has seen luxury fashion house Balenciaga, textile giant Gap and Adidas end their business relationship with him . Losses that dented his fortune by around $1.5 billion. “The $1.5 billion value of the agreement with Adidas was calculated...
This Saturday, at the Accor Arena in Paris, singer Michael Benjamin died at the end of the concert, struck down by a heart attack. Invited by the Carimi group for a unique show tour, singer Michael Benjamin, also called Mikaben, died at the end of the concert. Aged 41 and originally from Haiti, the artist was accompanied by Carlo Vieux, Mickael Guirand and Richard Cave. Shortly before 11 p.m., as the show was coming to an end, the singer collapsed after finishing his performance in front of thousands of spectators. One of the members of the group then spoke to ask the spectators to evacuate the premises. " It's very complicated, we are asking to evacuate the room, we need...
Born in Yemen, Zacharie and Shama'a have been married for 91 years. They have 64 grandchildren and love each other like the first day. Their union broke records for longevity, it must be said that they were married at a young age and it was together that they overcame the difficulties of life for more than 90 years. In 1948, the couple had to move from Yemen, fleeing persecution from anti-Semitism. They were among the first Jews to settle in the then newly founded State of Israel, and they still live there to this day. Since they are both of the Jewish faith, they had to marry early as was the custom at the time. By the early 1900s, their...
