The singer Celine Dion. Gilbert Carrasquillo / Getty Images
The singer Celine Dion. Gilbert Carrasquillo / Getty Images

Celine Dion gives Kate Winslet a piece of her mind



Celine Dion has responded to Kate Winslet, who admitted she does a "massive internal eye roll" whenever she hears the Titanic theme song My Heart Will Go On. "The song gave me the opportunity to be associated with a classic that will live forever," Dion told the Today show. "If she feels tired just hearing it, and, like, throwing up, I'm glad she was not the one singing it." During the 3D release of Titanic in March, Winslet told reporters the ballad still "haunts" her. "It makes me feel like throwing up," she said.

Platters founder Herb Reed dies at 83

Herb Reed, the last surviving original member of the 1950s vocal group The Platters, died on Monday in Boston after a period of declining health. He was 83. Reed founded The Platters in Los Angeles in 1953. He sang bass on the group's hits, including Only You, The Great Pretender and Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. Reed was the group's only member to appear on all of their nearly 400 recordings. He continued touring, performing up to 200 shows a year, until last year. * AP

Debra Messing files for divorce

Debra Messing has filed for divorce from her writer-producer husband Daniel Zelman. The former Will & Grace star filed her petition in Los Angeles on Tuesday, citing irreconcilable differences. The coupled married in 2000. They have an eight-year-old son and Messing is seeking joint custody. The actress currently appears in the musical drama series Smash. * AP

Sheryl Crow has benign brain tumour

Sheryl Crow has revealed she has a benign brain tumour, but that it's nothing to be alarmed about. "It's a bump in the road. Please don't worry," she told CNN on Tuesday. The 50-year-old singer told an audience about her condition at a recent concert. Crow battled breast cancer in 2006.  * AP

Paris Jackson talks to Oprah Winfrey

Michael Jackson's daughter Paris will talk about her late father in an interview with Oprah Winfrey on Sunday. Jackson, 14, will be featured on Oprah's Next Chapter, discussing how she is faring three years after the death of her pop star father. "It never gets easier," Jackson says in a promotional spot broadcast by Winfrey's OWN network, which also shows the host asking if her father wanted her to have "a normal life". Jackson and her brothers, Prince and Blanket, were closely sheltered during Jackson's life but have been in the public eye since, appearing onstage at the Grammy Awards and on other TV shows. * AP

Amanda Bynes asks Obama for DUI help

Amanda Bynes was charged on Tuesday by Los Angeles prosecutors with driving under the influence, two months after authorities say she grazed a sheriff’s patrol car in an early morning accident. Bynes, 26, turned to Twitter to petition her country’s president: “Hey @BarackObama … I don’t drink. Please fire the cop who arrested me. I also don’t hit and run. The end.”

2018 ICC World Twenty20 Asian Western Sub Regional Qualifier

Event info: The tournament in Kuwait this month is the first phase of the qualifying process for sides from Asia for the 2020 World T20 in Australia. The UAE must finish within the top three teams out of the six at the competition to advance to the Asia regional finals. Success at regional finals would mean progression to the World T20 Qualifier.

UAE’s fixtures: Fri Apr 20, UAE v Qatar; Sat Apr 21, UAE v Saudi Arabia; Mon Apr 23, UAE v Bahrain; Tue Apr 24, UAE v Maldives; Thu Apr 26, UAE v Kuwait

World T20 2020 Qualifying process:

  • Sixteen teams will play at the World T20 in two years’ time.
  • Australia have already qualified as hosts
  • Nine places are available to the top nine ranked sides in the ICC’s T20i standings, not including Australia, on Dec 31, 2018.
  • The final six teams will be decided by a 14-team World T20 Qualifier.

World T20 standings: 1 Pakistan; 2 Australia; 3 India; 4 New Zealand; 5 England; 6 South Africa; 7 West Indies; 8 Sri Lanka; 9 Afghanistan; 10 Bangladesh; 11 Scotland; 12 Zimbabwe; 13 UAE; 14 Netherlands; 15 Hong Kong; 16 Papua New Guinea; 17 Oman; 18 Ireland

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India squad

Virat Kohli (captain), Rohit Sharma, Mayank Agarwal, K.L. Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Rishabh Pant, Shivam Dube, Kedar Jadhav, Ravindra Jadeja, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Deepak Chahar, Mohammed Shami, Shardul Thakur.

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Advocate at Al Bahar & Associate Advocates and Legal Consultants, established in 1994

Education: Mr Al Bahar was born in 1979 and graduated in 2008 from the Judicial Institute. He took after his father, who was one of the first Emirati lawyers

Joker: Folie a Deux

Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Brendan Gleeson

Director: Todd Phillips 

Rating: 2/5

Dubai Rugby Sevens, December 5 -7

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Moon Music

Artist: Coldplay

Label: Parlophone/Atlantic

Number of tracks: 10

Rating: 3/5