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Rap superstar Drake was once fined $500 (£370) by the Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr after showing up late to hitch a ride on the basketball team s plane.
The God s Plan hitmaker is a big sports fan and serves as the ambassador for his hometown heroes, the Toronto Raptors, and on one occasion was even invited to jet to Los Angeles with the San Francisco, California-based team following the Warriors home game against the Raptors.
However, when it was time to board, Drake was nowhere to be found - and nor were the team s stars Stephen Curry and Draymond Green.
13 January 2021
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The 19-year-old megastar will document her childhood and her meteoric rise to fame as a teenager in the audiobook, which is narrated by herself, while she ll share never-before-seen photographs from when she was growing up to touring the world in the self-made book.
A statement about the audiobook reads: “This is an audiobook like no other – providing a truly intimate window into her journey, in Billie’s own words.
And of the tome, which will be released on May 11 in hardback and as an e-book, Billie - whose brother Finneas co-writes and produces her music - said: “I spent many hours over many months pouring through my family albums and archives, handpicking all of the photos in this book. I hope you love it as much as I do.
Liam Payne has sold the mountain retreat his ex believed was haunted.
According to the Daily Mail, the Monte Nido California hideaway, which features a meditation room, cellar and library, sold for just over $10 million (£7.5 million) after the singer knocked $4 million (£3 million) off the asking price.
The five-bedroom pad has been on the market since 2018.
Liam had lived on the property with ex Cheryl when she was pregnant with their son, Bear, who is now three, but she reportedly refused to enter rooms in the home as she was convinced the place was haunted.
The former One Direction star told The Sun in 2017 a stranger told his mother the place was haunted by the ghost of the previous owner.
DNA-based “liquid biopsy” could help save lives and reduce health disparities.
Illustration shows DNA fragments (yellow) derived from a transplanted heart alongside the patient’s own DNA (blue). A new blood test measures donor DNA fragments and detects acute heart transplant rejection earlier than current methods.Erina He, NIH Medical Arts
Researchers have developed a blood test that could make it possible for doctors to detect then quickly prevent or slow down acute heart transplant rejection, a potentially deadly condition that occurs in the early months after a patient has received a donor heart. They estimate that the test could eliminate up to 80% of invasive heart tissue biopsies currently used to detect rejection.
Credit funds eye openings as more banks cut Asia lending
The number of lenders reducing their Asian exposure is seen to be growing fast amid the coronavirus crisis, leaving asset managers keen to fill the financing gap.
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As more European banks – and increasingly also regional ones – further pull back from lending to clients in Asia amid the Covid-19 fallout, private credit managers are ramping up efforts to raise money to provide companies with financing and thereby tap the growing appetite among yield-hungry asset owners.
A growing number of lenders are believed to be reducing or at least re-assessing their Asian exposure, after moves by Dutch firms ABN Amro and ING and Australia’s Westpac to retrench in the region last year. Sources said on condition of anonymity that the likes of Germany’s Commerzbank, Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) and Singapore’s UOB were among those paring their activit