Après une première rumeur il y a quelques jours, Justin Bieber a profité de Noël pour mettre les choses au clair et faire une annonce fracassante: le jeune chanteur prend sa retraite!

Pour Noël, Justin Bieber a semble-t-il décidé de provoquer un drame chez ses fans. Ce mercredi matin, alors que tout le monde ouvrait ses cadeaux dans l’euphorie et la joie, le chanteur a annoncé une grande nouvelle sur Twitter: «Mes chers beliebers, je prends officiellement ma retraite». Une bûche en pleine tête pour ses 48 millions de followers.
Le jeune chanteur canadien a ensuite donné d’autres explications, toujours sur le réseau social. «Les médias parlent beaucoup de moi. Ils inventent beaucoup de mensonges et veulent me voir échouer, mais je ne vous quitterai jamais. Être un belieber est un style de vie» justifie l’interprète de Baby. La confirmation du retrait musical du jeune homme intervient après une première bombe balancée le mercredi 18 décembre. Sur les ondes de la radio américaine Power 106, Justin avait déclaré «être un homme fatigué». L’ex de Selena Gomez avait également annoncé «vouloir quitter le milieu de la musique» après la sortie de son nouvel album. Une idée atroce pour sa horde de beliebers, même si le manager du jeune garçon avait calmé le jeu rapidement.
Alors simple rumeur de Noël ou véritable envie de tout plaquer ? On ne sait plus à quel saint se vouer. En revanche, la possible retraite de Justin Bieber intervient au meilleur moment. Depuis plusieurs semaines, le chanteur a pris l’habitude de figurer dans la section faits divers. En novembre, la starlette avait défrayé la chronique en sortant d’une maison close, à Rio. Une conduite qui avait profondément choqué et même déçu un grand nombre de ses fans.
A 19 ans, Justin Bieber quitte donc la scène après une carrière exceptionnelle, d’une longévité rare. Mais avec son annonce de ce matin, pas sûr que le Canadien ait un avenir en tant que père Noël.

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European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker is failing in his position because he didn’t prevent the British vote to leave the EU, Czech Foreign Minister Lubomír Zaorálek said on local TV on Sunday, AFP reports.

“Right now I can’t see the European Commission chairman as the right man for the job,” he said, adding that “someone in the EU maybe should contemplate quitting.”

“I would imagine the Commission is led by an honorable, trustworthy man who, in a situation when we are facing the loss of a leg or arm, might go to the country and tell the Britons: ‘We want you to stay.'”

Zaorálek also said Juncker was not the only one to blame as “the problem of European elites is bigger.”

Europe’s attempt to a create a single system for granting asylum has hit resistance from national governments, reluctant to share expertise as they deal with a backlog of refugee requests, according to the new head of the EU’s asylum agency.

“We need to grow from a boy to an adult in terms of resources and capacities,” said José Carreira, executive director of the European Asylum Support Agency, in an interview in Brussels. “It’s a gradual process” and EU national governments support the new approach, but “sometimes because of their own conditions they have some difficulties in giving sufficient number of staff.”

The Malta-based agency is preparing for an overhaul after the European Commission in May proposed giving it new powers that will turn it from a support-provider into a more operational body. The proposal is part of Commission’s effort to standardize EU rules on asylum after the system collapsed last year under the strain of nearly 1.3 million applications.

According to one of the Commission’s proposals, which are being discussed in the European Parliament, EASO will be turned into “a fully-fledged European Union Agency for Asylum with an enhanced mandate and considerably expanded tasks.”

But officials said the backlog of asylum requests from last year remains so extensive — 1.1 million cases are pending — that national authorities have not been able to share experts with the EU agency,  making it difficult to expand its powers.

Carreira said “the agency has been recruiting heavily” but it needs to increase its staff from 126 people to 500. At the beginning of September EASO issued a call for 100 more experts to deploy in Greece but so far it has received fewer than half of them.

Carreira is a former U.N. World Food Program official, who has also worked in the EU border agency Frontex. He was lukewarm on the idea that the EU should replicate elsewhere its deal with Turkey in which it provides humanitarian aid payments in exchange for Ankara’s cooperation on stemming migration flows. Some countries, such as Germany and Italy, are pushing for a similar arrangement with Egypt, which according to press reports has asked Europe for €1 billion to stop migrants from crossing the Mediterranean.

“I refrain from saying yes or no” to that option, Carreira said, stressing that the agency’s task is to implement and not to take policy decisions. But “each situation is a case in itself and the migration in the Central Mediterranean is a migration phenomenon but it needs a different approach.”

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Kid Rock gave the Nashville, Tennessee, community a nice Christmas present this week, paying off $81,000 in layaway debts at an area Walmart.

“@tylerperry Great idea! I followed your lead and paid off the layaway at my local Walmart in Nashville. Merry Christmas and God Bless You!” Kid Rock said in a tweet Friday, following the lead of Tyler Perry, who paid off layaway debts at Walmarts in Georgia.

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WBIR reports that Kid Rock paid down 350 layaway accounts at a Nashville Walmart. The location’s manager Tom Meyer told the outlet, “Kudos to Kid Rock for making such a gesture in our community.”

“I think that’s a pretty Nashville proud moment,” he added.

The “All Summer Long” singer’s nice gesture comes after he got into some hot water for calling The View host Joy Behar a “bitch” on Fox News.

“God forbid you say something a little bit wrong you’re racist, homophobic, Islamophobic… people need to calm down, a get a little less politically correct, and, I would say love everybody. Except I’d say screw that Joy Behar bitch, everybody but that,” he joked, prompting Fox News host Steve Doocy to immediately apologize.

The 47-year-old’s obvious joke was still too much for some, and he was removed from a Christmas parade in Nashville over it.

Corina Creţu, the European commissioner for regional policy, has accused Romanian media outlets of misquoting her and said she had “no choice but to go to court” in a Facebook post Thursday.

Creţu objected to the way media reported a heated exchange during a citizens’ dialogue in Athens on Wednesday, accusing Pro TV, Hotnews, Libertatea and others of portraying the episode inaccurately for political gain.

The incident involved a back-and-forth between Creţu, the EU’s Romanian commissioner, and Zoe Konstantopoulou, the former speaker of the Greek parliament.

Konstantopoulou fired the first shot, accusing Creţu in Greek of “oppressing” her country by being part of an institution that imposed severe austerity measures despite the fact Greeks rejected them in a referendum. She added that Creţu had imposed a “dictatorship of the European Commission” in the country. Konstantopoulou then alleged Margaritis Schinas, a European Commission spokesperson and Greek national who was also in attendance, had rigged the Greek referendum.

“People are dying in Greece,” Konstantopoulou yelled.

“People are dying everywhere,” Creţu fired back in English. “Come to live in Romania if you don’t like [it] in Greece.” She then defended her record on Greece, telling the audience she had appealed to the European Parliament for a change in the rules to support the country.

Romanian TV channel Pro TV instead reported Creţu had said: “What if the Greeks are dying of hunger! There’s poverty everywhere in Europe. Come to Romania to see.”

Creţu said she could no longer allow media to misrepresent her comments, writing on Facebook: “I have decided to go to court. I have full trust in the Romanian justice [system],” signing off with “See you in court.”

A video of the exchange can be seen here, between 2:15:00 and 2:22:00.

NEW YORK (AP) — Janet Jackson joins her brother Michael and the Jackson 5 as members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, earning induction on Thursday along with Stevie Nicks and the top fan vote-getter, Def Leppard.

Radiohead, the Cure, Roxy Music and the Zombies will also be ushered in next spring at the 34th induction ceremony. It will be held March 29 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

Jackson’s induction comes after her third time as nominee and many saw it as overdue, given her prowess as a hitmaker with “All For You,” ″That’s the Way Love Goes,” ″Nasty,” ″Together Again” and “What Have You Done For Me Lately.”

Her career has suffered from the fallout after the infamous 2004 Super Bowl appearance where her bare breast was briefly exposed. Jackson became eligible for the rock hall in 2007 and wasn’t nominated until 2016.

The Roots’ Questlove, in a social media post earlier this year, said her exclusion had been “highly criminal.” He cited the influence of her 1986 album “Control,” which he said set off the New Jack Swing trend.

“This was no one’s kid sister,” he wrote.

Jackson said on Thursday: “Thank you Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I am truly honored and I am happy to be in there with my brothers.”

It will be Nicks’ second induction into the rock hall, since she’s already there as a member of Fleetwood Mac. She launched a solo career in 1981 with her duet with the late Tom Petty, “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around.” Other hits followed, including “Edge of Seventeen,” ″Stand Back” and “I Will Run to You.”

Def Leppard earned more than half a million votes from fans, which are incorporated into more than 1,000 ballots from artists, historians, industry professionals and past winners in deciding who gets honored. The British heavy metal band with a pop sheen were huge sellers in the 1980s on the back of songs like “Photograph” and “Pour Some Sugar on Me.”

Frontman Joe Elliott said he was initially ambivalent toward the honor until Jon Bon Jovi suggested it would change his life.

“When I look at the list of who’s in, it’s just obvious you’d want to be in that club, isn’t it?” he told Billboard earlier this year. “When you think that every band that means anything in the world, starting from the Beatles and the Stones and any artist that influenced them — your Chuck Berrys, your Little Richards, etc., etc. — then of course you want to be in. Why wouldn’t you?”

Def Leppard, Nicks and Roxy Music were voted in during their first years as nominees. Other 2019 nominees who didn’t make the cut included LL Cool J, Devo, Rage Against the Machine, MC5, John Prine, Todd Rundgren and Kraftwerk.

There’s some question about whether Radiohead will shrug its collective shoulder as an inductees. The English band seemed like generic grunge rockers on their initial hit “Creep,” but with the album “OK Computer” and beyond have become consistent sonic pioneers. Among its rock hall class, Radiohead has the most impact on the current music scene.

In an interview with Rolling Stone earlier this year, Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood said “I don’t care” when asked about the rock hall. Bandmate Ed O’Brien said, “culturally, I don’t understand it. I think it might be a quintessentially American thing.”

The Cure and frontman Robert Smith resist their initial label as goth rockers, champions of fans who like black makeup, black clothes and darkly romantic songs. They have a durable catalog of hits, including “Friday I’m in Love,” ″Boys Don’t Cry,” ″Pictures of You” and “Let’s Go to Bed.”

Roxy Music came out of the 1970s progressive rock scene and had hits with “Love is the Drug” and “More Than This.” Dapper member Bryan Ferry had a successful solo career and Brian Eno has been an influential producer.

The heyday of British rockers the Zombies’ career was the 1960s, with big sellers “She’s Not There” and “Time of the Season.”

The hall will announce ticket sales for March’s ceremony next month. HBO and SiriusXM will carry the event.

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The former Blues ‘keeper thinks two decisions involving the opposition captain could have gone the other way in a historic win for the English club

Former Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart has said that Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos can count himself unlucky to have been sent off in the Champions League game between the sides on Wednesday evening.

The Spain international defender was given his marching orders with less than five minutes of the game remaining and his team 2-1 down at home, for a foul on Gabriel Jesus when the City forward was clean through on goal. City went on to win by that scoreline.

He’ll now be suspended for the second leg as Los Blancos try and stage a comeback and avoid elimination from the competition they have won in three of the last four years.

L’autre mariage du siècle peut-être, après celui de Kate et William, mérite quelques éclaircissements. Pour se marier en France, Brad Pitt et Angelina Jolie devront remplir quelques conditions.

Un sublime mariage au cœur des vignes de Miraval, c’est le rêve ultime de Brad Pitt et Angelina Jolie. Un vœu qu’ils formulent depuis quelques mois déjà. Une informatrice révélait au Sun hier que l’acteur de Fight Club avait fait sa demande de «licence de mariage» en février auprès de la mairie de Los Angeles. Un document obligatoire pour tous les Américains souhaitant s’unir civilement et /ou religieusement partout dans le monde.

Pour que le mariage des Brangelina soit reconnu dans leur pays il faudra donc impérativement respecter le délai de 90 jours après la réception de la dite licence. Si, comme plusieurs indices semblent le confirmer, ils souhaitent se dire oui en France, les deux amoureux devront faire face à d’autres contraintes. Un juge, un prêtre, un commissaire de la Cour, l’un de ses assistants ou le greffier du comté où vivent les futurs époux devra certifier la cérémonie. Les mariés et leurs témoins devront à l’issue de la cérémonie remplir le «certificat de mariage» à retourner sous 30 jours à la mairie, celle de Los Angeles en l’occurrence. Un représentant chanceux de l’autorité civile américaine devrait donc se rendre dans le sud de la France en mai, afin de valider le mariage des célèbres Mr & Miss Smith.

La piste d’un mariage à l’américaine en France semble en effet la plus probable. Le Sun évoquait le souhait des futurs mariés d’attendre la fin du Festival de Cannes pour le célébrer. La sortie dans l’Hexagone de World War Z, nouveau thriller fantastique avec Brad Pitt comme héros, est prévue le 3 juillet prochain. L’occasion idéale pour l’acteur de venir en faire la promotion par chez nous et pourquoi pas, avec sa future épouse sur le red carpet du Palais des festivals.

Si Brad Pitt et Angelina Jolie souhaitent réellement se marier en France (même sous le régime américain) il devront résider au moins un mois dans leur château de Miraval. Les heureux parents d’une tribu de six enfants seront également soumis, comme tous les amoureux souhaitant se marier en France, à la publication des bans. Au moins dix jours avant LE grand jour, les noms d’Angelina Jolie et Brad Pitt pourraient donc figurer à l’entrée de la mairie de Miraval. Sauf si, comme beaucoup de stars, le couple le plus glamour d’Hollywood s’arrange avec monsieur le maire afin de conserver le secret.

Rien n’a été négligé pour que ce mariage soit unique. Les Brangelina, qui ont toujours expliqué le fait de se marier par la volonté de leurs enfants, envisageraient d’installer une mini-ferme dans leur jardin français. Chèvres, poulets, canards, oies et lapin seront peut-être témoins du mariage le plus attendu de l’année…

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C’est son éditeur britannique Penguin qui a annoncé la nouvelle. Celui que l’on considère comme le père de la littérature africaine moderne est décédé à l’âge de 82 ans aux Etats-Unis, dans un hôpital de Boston. Nelson Mandela comptait parmi ses très nombreux lecteurs.

Il avait dénoncé la corruption dans son pays, et Nelson Mandela disait de lui «qu’en sa compagnie, les murs de la prison tombaient». Chinua Achebe était un écrivain engagé. Avec son roman culte, Le monde s’effondre (1958), il dévoilait une critique du colonialisme blanc.

Ce livre, vendu à 10 millions d’exemplaires à travers le monde, était imprégné de la culture Igbo, son groupe ethnique. Car Chinua Achebe aimait parler des Africains comme il les connaissait et non pas comme ils étaient vus : «Des auteurs comme l’Américain Ernest Hemingway ont représenté la population noire africaine comme des sauvages et sont à l’origine d’un immonde blasphème. C’est pourquoi j’ai décidé de tenter d’écrire des livres où les personnages étaient des Africains comme je les connais».

À ce sujet, l’écrivain avait un proverbe : «Tant que les lions n’auront pas leurs propres historiens, l’histoire de la chasse glorifiera toujours le chasseur». Son nom avait été cité pour un prix Nobel de littérature, mais il ne l’aura pas obtenu (du moins de son vivant). Pourtant, Achebe n’a jamais failli dans son engagement pour la paix.

Il était très respecté au Nigeria pour ses prises de positions contre la corruption et la mauvaise gouvernance de son pays, riche (grâce au pétrole) mais dont la grande majorité des 160 millions d’habitants vit avec moins de deux dollars par jour.

Son dernier roman complet date de 1987, Les Termitières de la savane. Chinua Achebe s’est éteint aux Etats-Unis, son pays d’accueil, où il a longtemps été professeur à l’université Brown.

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Tom aurait-il enfin oublié Katie Holmes? En observant ce cliché pris lors de la première du film Oblivion à Moscou, notre imagination commence à vagabonder. Et si Tom roucoulait avec l’ex-James Bond girl, Olga Kurylenko – son genre de femmes d’ailleurs (élégante, grande, mystérieuse)?

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Pour Olga, ancien top model russe, une romance avec son partenaire dans ce film de science-fiction serait un beau tremplin pour une carrière à Hollywood (comme avant elle, pour l’Australienne Nicole Kidman, l’Espagnole Penelope Cruz). Et pour Tom, l’éternel héros, se serait une belle, très belle occassion de quitter le rang des perdants en amour. Mission impossible? Allez courage, Tom on y croit nous, ferme!