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With his exceptional skills, dominance on the court and impressive collection of accolades, LeBron James has garnered a legion of fans worldwide

The vessel carrying Adrienne Vaughan and her family collided with a stationary 130-foot chartered ship, leading to her death

There has been a significant increase in searches for Barbie and Ken baby names since Greta Gerwig's record-breaking film hit the big screen. The Barbie hysteria continues to thrive and survive another day since the Warner Bros drop on 21 July. We've had food collaborations, Airbnb partnerships, Barbiecore fashion taking over social feeds across the globe – and now, we are expecting a spike in newborns being called Barbie and Ken. Babynames.com, a site dedicated to providing much-needed inspo for mums-to-be, witnessed a staggering 300 per cent in searches for Margot Robbie's character, Barbie. They told TMZ that searches for Ken also skyrocketed with a 200 per cent increase. Sign up for our free Indy100 weekly newsletter Barbie | Main Trailer www.youtube.com Barbie broke records worldwide and is now considered the highest-grossest film by a female director. Since its opening weekend, the film is said to have racked up $1 billion in ticket sales, breaking new records and jumping ahead of Patty Jenkins' Wonder Woman in 2017 ($821.8 million). Only 53 films have ever surpassed the $1b mark. Ahead of the Barbie release, Robbie already had an inkling it would make a billion dollars. The Australian actress, who also doubled up as a producer on the film, told Collider that during an initial pitching meeting, she reinforced how hugely successful films such as Jurassic Park always paired "a big idea with a visionary director." "I was like, 'And now you’ve got Barbie and Greta Gerwig,'" she told the outlet. "And I think I told them that it’d make a billion dollars, which maybe I was overselling, but we had a movie to make, okay?!" Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.

A Pakistani defense lawyer says former Prime Minister Imran Khan wants a top court in Islamabd to suspend his conviction and three-year jail sentence in a graft case

Joe Rogers says Tucker Carlson might win the presidency in 2028 if he decides to run

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Ginge Zee has been the chief meteorologist for 'Good Morning America' for 10 years and is also the weather editor for ABC News

Thousands of Los Angeles city employees, including sanitation workers, engineers and traffic officers, walked off the job for a 24-hour strike alleging unfair labor practices

Now that July’s sizzling numbers are all in, the European climate monitoring organization made it official: July 2023 was Earth’s hottest month on record by a wide margin

Logan Paul shared that Vince McMahon told him that he belonged in the WWE after witnessing the crowd's ecstatic reaction

Man Utd have unveiled their new third kit for the 2023/24 season.

Officials say the death toll from Russian missile strikes that hit apartment buildings in an eastern Ukrainian city has climbed to seven, with 67 injured