Shaun Ryder is to release a new book
The Happy Mondays frontman will share a first-hand account of his music career in How To Be A Rockstar 2 April 2021
Shaun will recount three decades of touring the world, which took him from Salford to San Francisco and working men s clubs to playing Wembley, and provide readers with a fly-on-the-wall look at rock n roll lifestyle and tell them how â and how not â to be a rock star.
The star will tell tales of being a leading figure in the Madchester scene and hanging out with the Rolling Stones. Fans will be provided with an insight into the debauchery of the tour bus, run-ins with record companies and drug dealers and how Shaun forged a remarkable rock n roll comeback.
franck Riester, Minister Delegate for Foreign Trade and Economic Attractiveness, attached to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, is visiting Geneva today.
Alongside Bruno Le Maire, Minister of the Economy, Finance and the Recovery, Franck Riester will meet with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO). They will underscore the need for ambitious WTO reform that will make it possible to preserve the rules-based multilateral trade system, include sustainable development and guarantee fair trade. They will also reaffirm the need to re-establish the Appellate Body for dispute resolution.
The minister delegate will also meet with Daren Tang, Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and Pascal Faure, Director General of the French National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI), with whom he will discuss issues relating to innovation, intellectual property and attractiveness. He will reaffirm the importance of pr
William Shatner is set to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame
The 90-year-old actor - who is best known for playing Captain James T. Kirk in the Star Trek franchise - is poised to join the Celebrity Wing of the Hall of Fame 1 April 2021
Comparing professional wrestling to his Star Trek career, he told USA Today: Itâs very much the same, the approbation, the joy. The enthusiasm the wrestling audience shows toward its favourite people is not dissimilar to the enthusiasm Star Trek fans show.
William also joked he should have become a full-time wrestler after he left the iconic sci-fi franchise.
World Trade Organisation chief says vaccine inequity ‘unacceptable “The idea that 70% of vaccines today have been administered only by 10 countries is really not acceptable,” WTO director-general Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said. Picture by Alessandra Tarantino Associated Press Reporter
Ian Knox cartoon 23/3/21 - Vaccine nationalism
The head of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has called for expanded capability in developing countries to manufacture vaccines.
WTO director-general Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said the gaping imbalance in access to coronavirus vaccines that mostly favours rich, developed countries was unacceptable.
She said she supports the creation of a framework that would give developing countries “some automaticity and access to manufacture vaccines with technology transfer” during future pandemics, decrying the “vaccine inequity” of the current one.
James Blunt drives a taxi around the streets of Ibiza
The 47-year-old singer imported a tuk-tuk from Thailand to his home in Ibiza and people on the island keep mistaking him for a professional taxi driver 1 April 2021
He shared: It says taxi on it and people stop me and go, âHey mate, how much is it to Ibiza Town?â Then they go, âOh God, itâs you!â Then they go, âOh no, man, what happened?â And I just go, âItâs five euros â letâs go!
James - who lives in Ibiza with his wife Sofia Wellesley and their two sons - thinks rickshaws are perfectly suited to the narrow streets of the island.