Indeed, the pop world has been buzzing since the surprise announcement of the pregnancy of Hailey Bieber, formerly Baldwin.
The couple, on vacation in Hawaii, took the opportunity to renew their wedding vows… and announce the happy news via a series of images, some of which feature Hailey in a long white lace dress and veil, also showing off her… baby bump (!). And that’s all it took for fans of the Bieber clan to rejoice.
According to TMZ, Hailey is more than six months pregnant, which suggests a birth before autumn…
But, how on earth could one of the most high-profile couples on the planet have kept this pregnancy a secret for so long?
That’s a topic for another day…
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For now, the Biebers finally seem more ready than ever for this next step, while Justin had clearly expressed his desire to start a family in the past, while Hailey wanted to achieve certain personal goals first before realizing this other dream.
It’s now a done deal.
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Get ready for an avalanche of cuteness with the imminent arrival of this mini Bieber…
For the first time, astronomers reveal an image of the black hole located at the center of our galaxy. Known as Sagittarius A. The image shows the shadow of the black hole surrounded by a bright ring. The black hole is 4 million times more massive than our sun.
2002
Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro’s 1959 revolution.
1994
“Pulp Fiction”, directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring John Travolta, Uma Thurman and Samuel L. Jackson premieres at the Cannes Film Festival (Palme d’Or 1994).
1992
Canada’s largest charter airline, Nationair, declares bankruptcy.
1989
Canadian Olympian Ben Johnson admits to Dubin Inquiry that he has used anabolic steroids to enhance performance.
1984
South African prisoner Nelson Mandela saw his wife for the first time in 22 years.
1982
US Football League forms.
1967
“Are You Experienced” album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience first released .
1958
US & Canada form North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
1937
Coronation of King George VI of Great Britain (and his other realms and territories beyond the sea) at Westminster Abbey, London.
1885
In the Battle of Batoche (Saskatchewan), French Canadians rebelled against the Canadian government.
1875
1st recorded shutout in pro baseball, Chicago 1, St Louis 0.
1870
Manitoba becomes a province of Canada.
1792
Toilet that flushes itself at regular intervals is patented.
Digital misinformation has become common, and the Met Gala 2024 was not spared as numerous AI-generated photos of absent celebrities were widely shared on social networks, including images of Katy Perry that managed to fool… her own mother!
Katy Perry and Rihanna, among others, were misrepresented at the Met Gala through very realistic, but entirely fake images. And it’s this aberrant realism that raises the question of the need for legislation on the use of images generated by artificial intelligence.
A photo of Rihanna, smiling in front of photographers in an evening gown, circulated online, disconcerting many, as the star, absent from the event, was ill with the flu.
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The scenes from the event that were used to create the images made them look so real that they fooled a majority of admirers. The fake images were given credibility by details such as the appearance of the dresses and the celebrities’ previous appearances at the gala. The outfits were in keeping with the gala’s 2024: The Garden of Time theme, making it very difficult to demystify the real from the fake.
Perry’s AI-generated floral dress was convincing enough that even her mother was fooled, according to an funny Instagram exchange posted by the singer.
The singer found it amusing that her mother was fooled by the fake images, but understand the risk associated with this kind of practice are obvious.
Indeed, these incidents provoke both concern and amusement. Users and social media platforms will have to be extra vigilant to spot content generated by AI, whose technology is rapidly evolving.
All the more so as this time, the aim was to produce aesthetically pleasing images with no negative consequences, but it should be remembered that it is also possible, conversely, to create content that can propagate other, far less positive, types of message.
Record price for a work of art at auction: Picasso’s The Women of Algiers (Version O) sells for US$179.3 million at Christies in New York.
1998
A French mint produced the first coins of Europe’s single currency. The coin is known as the euro.
1997
Garry Kasparov, world chess champion, lost his first ever multi-game match. He lost to IBM’s chess computer Deep Blue. It was the first time a computer had beaten a world-champion player.
1981
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical “Cats” (based on poetry by T. S. Eliot) directed by Trevor Nunn first premieres in the West End, London.
1947
The creation of the tubeless tire was announced by the B.F. Goodrich Company.
1924
Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.
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Founding of the Canadian commercial exchange; forerunner of the Montreal Stock Exchange.
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“The Diamond Sutra”, the world’s oldest surviving and dated printed book is printed in Chinese and made into a scroll.
The trailer for The Kardashians has shocked many fans who are preparing for a new season following the lives of their favorite celebrities. It shows the family matriarch making a shocking announcement to her daughters, leaving them visibly shaken.
Kris Jenner reveals that she recently underwent a medical examination which detected a small tumor.
In the trailer, details about the tumor are not disclosed, including whether it is cancerous in nature. However, Kris Jenner seems visibly affected by the news.
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The new season focuses not only on Kris, but also on other critical moments for the family, including Kourtney ‘s high-risk pregnancy and subsequent fetal surgery. Fans will discover more, through the words of the eldest, about the trials she, dad, Travis Barker, and their newborn had to go through.
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The reality show also promises a healthy dose of drama between Kim and Khloé Kardashian, as tensions escalate.
The new season of The Kardashians, which airs on Hulu on May 23, promises to be emotionally charged.
NBC says it will not televise the 2022 Golden Globes because of criticism of its lack of diversity.
2019
Taxi service Uber becomes a public company opening on the New York Stock Exchange.
2018
Rafael Nadal breaks John McEnroe’s record for successive set wins on a single surface (49 on carpet) with 6-3, 6-4 win over Diego Schwartzman at the Madrid Open (clay).
2014
59th Eurovision Song Contest: Conchita Wurst for Austria wins singing “Rise Like a Phoenix” in Copenhagen.
2013
The Freedom Tower becomes the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.
1973
Bruce Lee collapses in Golden Harvest studios in Hong Kong and is rushed to Hong Kong Baptist Hospital where doctors diagnose him with cerebral edema.
1969
The National and American Football Leagues announced their plans to merge for the 1970-71 season.
1962
Marvel Comics published the first issue of “The Incredible Hulk.”
1940
Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister.
Germany invaded Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
1844
Capital of Canada moves from Montreal to Kingston after years of petitions; until Nov. 14, 1849.
The Georgia Court of Appeals has agreed to review a lower court’s decision refusing to remove prosecutor Fani Willis as supervisor in the election interference case involving former President Donald Trump.
It’s a victory for the former president, who is seeking delays in the impending trial related to the electoral fraud charges against him.
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This decision comes against a complex and controversial legal backdrop, adding a new dimension to this widely publicized case. The controversy concerns past links between Fani Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade, which Trump’s legal team considered likely to compromise the fairness of the trial. Nathan Wade withdrew from the case in the wake of these allegations, but Judge Scott McAfee allowed Fani Willis to remain involved, provided Wade withdrew.
Trump’s legal team has appealed this decision, and their appeal will eventually be considered.
While some believe that the prosecutor should also have been disqualified, others believe that this appeal is merely a tactic to delay the trial until after the presidential elections.
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The trial date has not yet been set, the appeals process is underway, and this represents a victory for the former president, who is seeking delays for the trial.
Writer E. Jean Carroll leaves a Manhattan court house after a jury found former President Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing her in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s. The jury awarded her $5 million in damages for her battery and defamation claims.
2019
Pope Francis introduces new rules on reporting sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, criticized for not going far enough.
2001
Accra Sports Stadium Disaster: 129 Ghanaian football fans die in a stampede caused by the firing of teargas by police following a decision by the referee in a crucial match between arch-rivals Accra Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Asante Kotoko.
1994
Nelson Mandela was chosen to be South Africa’s first black president.
1980
Slasher horror film “Friday the 13th” is released in cinemas.
1974
Watergate Scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
1962
The Beatles sign their 1st contract with EMI Parlophone.
1960
US becomes the first country to legalize the birth control pill.
1958
Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock has world premiere in San Francisco.
A security guard was shot and seriously wounded in Toronto’s upscale Bridle Path neighborhood early Tuesday morning. The violent incident drew attention not least because of its unusual location, right next to rapper Drake’s mansion, reports CBC.
Of course, the immediate question on many people’s minds is whether the event could be linked to the much-publicized conflicts within the rap scene that have been making a lot of headlines recently, namely the now-infamous beef between Drake and Kendrick Lamar.
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Police reports indicate that the incident took place at 2:10 a.m., near an intersection very close to Drake’s home. Emergency services quickly arrived on the scene and found an adult male with gunshot wounds.
The victim was immediately transported to the nearest hospital. Although seriously wounded, his life is not believed to be in danger.
The suspects are believed to have fled in a car, the description of which has not yet been released by Toronto police. However, officers have reportedly quickly surrounded the successful rapper’s home and will be patrolling the surrounding area throughout the day.
Tensions are escalating in the rap world, with Drake and Kendrick Lamar exchanging increasingly virulent diss tracks in recent weeks. Here’s a chronological look at the events.
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Kendrick and Drake’s rivalry dates back to 2013, when Lamar attacked Drake and other rappers on Control. Although he explained in an interview that this was to encourage friendly competition, and despite their past collaborations, tensions escalated when Drake declared that Lamar was an extremely hungry underdog, but that he now had to prove his consistency.
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At the BET Hip-Hop Awards, Kendrick takes aim at Drake in a freestyle…
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In 2017, Kendrick Lamar issued a subtle criticism of Drake in The Heart Part 4, but the situation changed last March when Lamar amplified their rivalry with his verses in Like That, a collab by Lamar with Future and Metro Boomin.
In Like That, Kendrick Lamar attacks the affiliation between Drake and J. Cole in 2023’s First Person Shooter.
Then, in mid-April, Drake responds to Lamar by releasing two tracks on the same day: Push Ups and Taylor Made Freestyle.
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In Push Ups, Drake raps that Kendrick isn’t part of the Big Three and criticizes his enemy’s recording contract. He also mocks his collaborations with Maroon 5 and Taylor Swift, among others.
On the same day, Drake released Taylor Made Freestyle. The song has since been removed from streaming platforms, as it contained artificial intelligence impersonations of Snoop Dogg and Tupac, leading to its blocking by Tupac’s estate.
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At the end of April, Lamar released a diss entitled Euphoria, launching one attack after another against Drake.
A few days later, Lamar reinforces his attack with 6:16 in LA.
A few hours later, Drake retaliates against Kendrick by accusing him of abuse in Family Matters, claiming that Lamar had physically assaulted his fiancée, Whitney Alford.
On the same day, Kendrick Lamar releases Meet the Grahams, a scathing response to Drake, in which he addresses Drake’s son Adonis, as well as his parents.
Lamar also talks about an 11-year-old daughter whom Drake has allegedly failed to recognize publicly. In the diss track, Lamar also refers to allegations of abuse aimed at Drake, declaring that the rapper should be in prison for life, just like Harvey Weinstein…
The following day, Lamar reinforces the serious accusations against Drake in Not Like Us, where he advises the girls in Drake’s entourage to be careful…
The next day, Drake releases The Heart Part 6, where he denies Lamar’s allegations, even suggesting that they were fabricated by his own clan in an attempt to trap him.
After several weeks of heated exchanges, some feel that the feud between the two rappers is coming to an end, while others await Lamar’s response to Drake’s final attacks.
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Then, on the morning of May 7, 2024, a shooting broke out very close to Drake’s Toronto mansion, seriously wounding a security guard and casting doubt on the motive behind the crime and its potential links to the whole saga.
