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From Taylor Swift to Nicole Kidman, many high-profile female celebrities earn more than their partners. Their partners - Travis Kelce and Keith Urban - seem fairly happy with their setups, but a new study has warned that the same isn't true across the board. If you truly want a happy life, scientists from the University of Durham say it's better for the male partner to be the higher earner.

SNIP Casually dressed — but costing more than the sirloin — he said, “Our new push will be outer space. We’ll put all the Mexicans on the rockets.” A very short set. Barely minutes when he saw something the audience did not. We faced the stage. He faced us. Behind us the back walls and exit doors. Whatever he saw — or thought he saw — upset him. Like he went momentarily ape and shouted something like he wasn’t supposed to be taped, videoed, reported or whatever else wasn’t supposed to happen. Didn’t complain. Didn’t explain. Didn’t do one more...

A few months old, a bit long, but entirely worth it: Retired Teacher Pays for Stranger’s Groceries Before Making a Shocking Discovery About His True Identity It's no secret that the world can turn around even with the smallest gestures. It only takes one moment to change your life and the lives of everyone around you. And the world's desperately in need of kindness and positivity. One particular woman chose to do a small act of kindness, having no idea who the recipient was of her good deed. What she thought was a simple act of kindness turned out to...

John Legend, Keith Urban, and Angélique Kidjo led a version of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s utopian anthem “Imagine” at the Tokyo Olympics, which featured Legend, whose net worth is an estimated $75 million, belting out the line “imagine no possessions.” The Opening Ceremony kicked off on Friday with several artists participating in a rendition of “Imagine” — which asks listeners to, ironically, imagine there are “no countries.” The Suginami Junior Chorus and Spanish musician Alejandro Sanz were also featured in the number. Legend, an overtly leftist Hollywood activist, belted out the lyrics, “Imagine no possessions/I wonder if you can/No...

A teenage girl was raped at the same Keith Urban show where 20 people got so drunk they were hospitalized, police said. The attack happened in front of a large crowd of other concertgoers on the lawn of the Xfinity Center, an outdoor amphitheater in Mansfield, Massachusetts, on Saturday night, a police statement said. The rape ended when a woman in the crowd pushed the alleged attacker off the victim and he fled, police said.

BOSTON (Reuters) - Forty-six music fans were treated for mostly alcohol-related medical problems at Australian country singer Keith Urban's concert outside Boston on Saturday night, local officials said. Fire and emergency medical personnel dealt with dozens of ill fans during the show at an outdoor arena in Mansfield, Massachusetts, about 25 miles (40 km) south of Boston, the town's police and fire departments said in a joint statement on Sunday. Some 22 people were transported to area hospitals, mostly for alcohol-related illness, and more than 50 people were taken into protective custody by police, who noted that the large number...

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A close religious confidant to Nicole Kidman, Jesuit Fr Paul Coleman, says the actor has returned to the Church on the eve of her marriage to country singer Keith Urban. "For Nicole, you know, this is a spiritual homecoming, coming back to the church and her faith in her old parish," he said. The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Fr Coleman is chaplain at Mary MacKillop Chapel in North Sydney. The church has reportedly been chosen as the venue for the nuptials on 25 June. It is also where Kidman attended Easter Mass with her parents, Anthony and Janelle, last...

New Zealand-born country singer Keith Urban has checked himself into a rehabilitation treatment centre for alcohol abuse. Less than four months ago, Urban's career was on a crest when he married actress Nicole Kidman in a star-studded ceremony in Sydney. And yesterday a statement from his publicist said his new wife was by his side when he went into rehab on Thursday, at an undisclosed location. "I deeply regret the hurt this has caused Nicole and the ones that love and support me," Urban said in the statement. Urban, who turns 39 on Thursday, has publicly acknowledged a former addiction...