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Cricket great Michael 'Pup' Clarke stopped hitting sixes years ago, but in social and business terms, his steamy romance with fashion sensation Pip Edwards could be his best partnership ever.  The World Cup-winning captain and activewear mogul Edwards have quickly become one of Australia's most glamorous power couples since hooking up in late 2019. Their very public relationship looks as smart a business and social move as it is a tantalising romantic one.  They combine looks, profile, glamour, expensive toys, business and marketing savvy, wealth and family into a potent package. 'With Pip and Michael one plus one equals five,' celebrity publicist Max Markson told Daily Mail Australia. Clarke and Edwards have amassed a combined fortune estimated at more than $50million, which Markson predicts will skyrocket based on their booming business interests and public appeal.  Underpinning all of it is their social media strategy, which are nothing short of textbook lessons

Minnesota Timberwolves star Karl-Anthony Towns announced Friday that he has tested positive for COVID-19 after losing seven members of his family, including his mother, to the virus last year.  Towns, 25, promised his niece and nephew that he 'will not end up in a box next to grandma' in a heartbreaking note posted to Twitter in which he revealed he prays 'every day that this nightmare of a virus will subside'.  His announcement came shortly after the NBA announced Friday's game between the Timberwolves and the visiting Memphis Grizzlies was postponed due to the league's COVID-19 health and safety protocols. The NBA said Minnesota didn't have the mandatory eight players available due to contact tracing within the team. Towns was distressed over his positive test because his mother, 59-year-old Jacqueline Cruz-Towns, died of complications from COVID-19 on April 13 after being placed on a ventilator for 19 days.   Minnesota Timberwolves star Karl-Anthony Towns

New York prosecutors conducted an hours-long interview of Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, about his old employer's finances. The interview with the 54-year-old, took place on Thursday, sources told Associated Press . It focused in part on Trump’s relationship with Deutsche Bank, his biggest and longest standing creditor. The interview, at least the second of Cohen by the Manhattan district attorney’s office, comes amid a long-running grand jury investigation into Trump’s business dealings.  New York prosecutors conducted an hours-long interview of Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, about his old employer's finances. Cohen  is pictured returning to his apartment in New York after being released from prison due to concerns over the spread of coronavirus in prison facilities, on July 24, 2020 Cohen, pictured behind Trump in Ohio in 2016, is being questioned regarding his former employer's business and tax dealing

A new book by architectural historian, Andrew Alpern highlights the opulent entrances of New York City's most exclusive apartment buildings.   Behind the stunning cast-iron gates, barrel vaulted archways, regal awnings, hand-carved flourishes and gold-tasseled doormen are the stratospherically expensive domiciles of America's wealthiest and most influential families.    Having lived in Manhattan since 1938, Alpern is an expert on historic houses in New York. From Beaux Arts to Art Deco,  Posh Portals: Elegant Entrances and Ingratiating Ingresses to Apartments for the Affluent in New York City (Abbeville Press)  examines how elegant living has changed over time from the nineteenth century to today. The colossal 440-page photo book offers a glimpse into the cloistered lives of the rich and very powerful by taking the reader on a tour of 140 different entrances in Manhattan and Brooklyn.  Question remains, can you guess these iconic buildings just by their lavish entrances? Answer

An investigation into the blast that laid waste to Beirut has uncovered links between Bashar al-Assad and the firm which shipped the chemicals that exploded.  Three figures with strong ties to the Syrian government were found to have shared a London office with Savaro Ltd, which reportedly purchased the 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate that blew up in the Lebanese capital last August. George Haswani and brothers Imad and Mudalal Khuri are Syrian-Russian nationals who have helped Assad consolidate power in the war-afflicted country.  Their ties to the ammonium nitrate, which were drawn in a documentary seen by the Guardian, supposedly fuels suspicions the flammable cargo was always meant for the port of Beirut and not Mozambique, which was listed at its destination. Beirut is still rebuilding from the wreckage of the blast, which killed more than 200 people and razed buildings (pictured the day after the explosion) An investigation into the blast that laid waste to Beirut has uncovered

The Liverpool building firm hired to lead Unite's £50million Birmingham  development is now being probed as part of a police investigation into unconnected alleged bribery and corruption in Liverpool.  Unite hired the Flanagan Group to head the construction of its multi-million pound Birmingham complex with work beginning in 2015. In December, Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson was arrested as part of Operation Aloft too. How the asset-rich union came to give the contract to the family-run business over others starts with a ducks'-feet salesman turned project manager, an investigation by The Times claimed. Gerry White - who amassed enormous wealth from lobster trading and selling ducks' feet to the Far East - set up Purple Apple Ltd in 2004.  The company became the property manager of the Transport and General Workers' Union in 2005 before it merged with another union to become Unite two years later. Last year, Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson was arrested as part of Operation A