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Sabrina Carpenter got quite a scare during her California concert over the weekend – she was filmed dashing away in terror after hearing exploding fireworks. The pop star was performing onstage in front of a packed audience at San Francisco’s Outside Lands music fest Saturday when pyrotechnics started going off behind her. Play video content Check out the video … Sabrina is dancing with her cast and crew while asking the crowd to give it up for everyone. She then charges to the back of the stage, where a slew of fireworks detonated all at once. Moments later, she reacts…

Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photo: Clockwise from top left: Soobin Jeon/Allen Street Gallery, Arturo Aranda/Found Objects/Collette Home, Eric Firestone Gallery, Seth Caplan/Piscina August in New York can often feel like a month of limbo with all the comings and goings, out-of-office replies, and galleries closed for installations. This month’s picks highlight the transient and the reemerging: A massage parlor in Chinatown is transformed into a gallery of rare decorative objects and antiques; a Lower East Side gallery run by an architecture studio returns with its first show post-pandemic; and in Red Hook, designer Piscina turns compartmentalizing into a work of art. From left:…

The London skyline.Andrea Pucci | Moment Open | Getty ImagesLONDON — European stocks kicked off the new trading week cautiously higher, with U.S. and U.K. inflation data set to dominate focus in the coming days.The pan-European Stoxx 600 index was up 0.2% at 12:30 p.m. in London, as investors hunt for signs that the recent market rout is finished. Oil and gas stocks led gains, trading 1.06% higher, even after the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) trimmed its 2024 global oil demand growth forecast.European stocks followed their counterparts in Asia-Pacific into the green, continuing to shake off recent volatility. Global…

Getty ImagesIsaac Hayes was one of the most prolific and successful soul musicians of the 1960s and 70sThe family of the late soul singer Isaac Hayes has ordered Donald Trump to stop playing the star’s song Hold On, I’m Coming at his campaign rallies.A letter sent to Trump and his team, and shared by Hayes’ son on social media, threatens to sue the former US President if he does not comply by 16 August.The family is also demanding $3m (£2.4m) in licensing fees for the campaign’s repeated use of the song between 2022 and 2024.The song, which was made famous…

Last month Nashville shut down its legendary Broadway for Post Malone, one of the biggest pop stars in the world, who would be singing with one of the biggest names in country. “We’re shooting a video with Mr. Luke Combs,” Malone said. “We’re gonna be performing on the back of a semi-truck.”Malone’s duet with Combs, “Guy For That,” is featured on Malone’s new album, “F-1 Trillion.” It also also includes duets with other country superstars, including Morgan Wallen, Blake Shelton and Dolly Parton.Stars like Combs signed up quick for Malone’s country album. “I heard he was gonna be working on…

Inman Connect is moving from Las Vegas to San Diego in 2025 and it’ll be bigger, better and bolder than ever before. Join us for Inman Connect San Diego on July 30-Aug. 1, 2025 with the brightest minds in real estate to shape the future of the industry. Reserve your spot today for an exclusive discount. In 2012, at the ripe age of 28, I had the bright idea to open my own real estate brokerage just as the country was emerging from the greatest real estate recession in modern history. I rented a swanky storefront office on the main…

One of the most memorable moments from the 2024 Summer Olympics now has a new (and unfortunate) meaning attached to it. On Saturday, a judge for the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) officially stripped U.S. gymnast Jordan Chiles of the Bronze Medal she had previously earned for her floor routine in Paris. Jordan Chiles poses during the podium ceremony for the artistic gymnastics women’s floor exercise event of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Bercy Arena in Paris, on August 5, 2024. (Photo by Gabriel BOUYS / AFP) (Photo by GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP via Getty Images) The event, which…

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Medical charity MSF warns of urgent need to protect civilians caught up in escalating conflict in western Rakhine State.More Rohingya are arriving in Bangladesh from Myanmar with war-related injuries amid escalating conflict between the military and the Arakan Army (AA) in western Rakhine State, according to international medical group Doctors without Borders, known by its French initials MSF. MSF said its teams in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, treated 39 people for conflict-related injuries including mortar shell injuries and gunshot wounds in the four days leading up to August 7. More than 40 percent of the injured were women and children, it…

ReutersThe aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Strait of Gibraltar, back in 2019The US has sent a guided missile submarine to the Middle East, as tensions grow in the region.Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin also said an aircraft carrier which was already heading to the area would sail there more quickly.The move comes in response to fears of a wider regional conflict, after the recent assassination of senior Hezbollah and Hamas leaders. It signals the US’s determination to help defend Israel from any attack by Iran – with Mr Austin saying US would “take every possible step” to defend its…