Kabir Chibber

Fresh from being rebuked by his wife Beyoncé in song, rapper Jay Z is back with a new verse on a Pusha T song, “Drug Dealers Anonymous.”

How do you replace the head of your organization who transformed it into a behemoth? It’s not an unusual situation (see: Jobs, Steve) and Manchester United is still struggling with succession three years after Sir Alex Ferguson retired.

It’s been an incredible year in sport—particularly if you’re a soccer or basketball fan. But if you want to watch the denouement in person, well, that’s not going to be cheap.

For a long time, WWE—the world’s foremost pro wrestling organization—called male wrestlers like The Rock, Hulk Hogan, and Seth Rollins “superstars” and its females “divas.” It embodied the split between the two—the men came to wrestle and the women just had to look good.

Five years ago, Frederic Durand-Baissas posted an image of the 19th-century painting, The Origin of the World, on his Facebook account. The famous Gustave Courbet work features a close-up of a vagina. The 57-year-old’s account was suspended the same day.

Investors of the world, forget contemporary art and classic cars. To avoid the turmoil in financial markets, your best bet might be sneakers. Specifically, those made by the greatest artist of all time—or at least of the 21st century.

A beloved pro wrestler, Daniel Bryan, retired yesterday (Feb. 8) on World Wrestling Entertainment’s flagship show after being out injured since May. He said back then that he’d had a MRI scan that didn’t look good. Now, he’s revealed just how bad things are for him.

A new documentary about to be released in France depicts daily life under jihadists who ruled northern Mali in 2012 and features decapitations, amputations, and all sorts of brutal punishments under Sharia law.

A couple of years ago, you may have liked the Facebook pages of some cool new digital media outlets, and maybe even a few older traditional ones too. You started to see a few stories sprinkled in your feed, and they added something to your life. You liked, clicked, and shared them with your friends. All was right with the world.

It was George Lucas who led Hollywood’s move to digital, pushing for its use in everything from shooting and editing to projection and special effects. His second Star Wars prequel, Attack of the Clones, was the first major film to be shot on high-definition digital cameras instead of photographic film in 2002—the biggest change to the medium and methodology of filmmaking since the 1880s. He said at the time of shooting digitally:

British chancellor George Osborne announced his latest Spending Review today (Nov. 25), a sort of mini-budget that details how his Conservative government plans to spend taxpayers’ money and which contained some surprising U-turns.

A severed finger points to the difficulty that Paris faces after the terror attacks that killed more than 120 people on Friday. The finger belonged to Omar Ismaïl Mostefai, a 29-year-old of Algerian origin who was one of three suicide bombers to storm the Bataclan theater on Friday.

The NFL and rugby have more in common than large men chasing an oval ball and slamming into each other. They are both expanding globally—and joining forces in the process.

The blood reds and sunset yellows found in some of the greatest paintings ever made are, of course, down to the deft touch of the masters. And a highly toxic chemical called cadmium.

“In hip-hop, the music leads first,” rapper Jay Z once said. “So usually, you have a hit record and then [the record executives] throw this person on stage who has never been on stage before. So they don’t have any experience on how to perform in front of people, hold the mic—all these different things you need to know as a performer.”

What do you do after you’ve been elected the as the most leftwing leader of Britain’s Labour Party in its 115-year history and everyone is criticizing your economic policies? You form a council of international experts to boost your case. That’s what Jeremy Corbyn has done—and he’s assembled quite a group of experts.

“And because I make jokes sometime: and you know how dangerous it is to make jokes even in joke?”—Ernest Hemingway, For Whom The Bell Tolls (1941)

A man with an AK-47 on a high-speed train between Amsterdam and Paris was subdued on Friday (Aug. 21) by three Americans on holiday. A 26-year-old man of Moroccan origin, reportedly known to French security services, was arrested at the station in the town of Arras, near the border between France and Belgium.

What could be more relaxing than a trip to the beach? Well, maybe not in France.

“Take me from Park Lane to Earl’s Court,” a customer might say. And a cab driver in London is required to know the quickest way off by heart. That is because they know the center of the British capital; they’ll have committed 320 runs across 25,000 streets, encompassing at least 20,000 landmarks, to memory. And they have passed a test—which has been called the hardest of any kind in the world—to prove it.

There are multiple clips online showing off the best of boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr:

French economist Thomas Piketty found unexpected fame with his book on wealth inequality, Capital in the 21st Century, and has now turned his attentions to the situation in Greece. The country is struggling under a mountain of debt and is resisting German-led demands for more austerity in exchange for aid, culminating in a landmark referendum yesterday that rejected creditors’ proposals and may send Greece out of the euro zone.

According to a new Gallup poll, only 43% of Americans under 30 are ”extremely proud” to be from the Land of the Free. Across all Americans, it is just 54%—the lowest since Gallup first asked the question, just when Bill Clinton’s presidency ended at the start of 2001.

The word “economy” traces its roots to ancient Greece, though it would have meant something a little different back then—more about managing the affairs of the household. The Greeks could certainly use a little help arranging their affairs at the moment—the country is broke, its banks are shut, everyone is shouting at each other, and the country faces the possibility of another depression upon ejection from the euro zone.