/ 02 March 2023

A football fan’s tattoo fail, The Weeknd sets a Spotify record, and some top-notch pics…

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We’ve all made bad choices in life – but getting a tattoo marking your team’s championship win ahead of the game – and they lose – seems like an own goal… One Newcastle United fan has acknowledged he was caught offside with Manchester United’s victory in Sunday’s League Cup final. “My mam is still a little bit livid – my grandma, she went ballistic,” he said…

The Weeknd is greedy when it comes to Spotify’s audience. Not only does he have the platform’s most-played song of all time (Blinding Lights with 3.4 billion plays…), but he’s also become the first artist to hit 100 million monthly listeners. Idea: if each of those listeners played that song 34 times, that would futureproof its #1 spot. We’re here to help…

The finalists and shortlisted photographers in the professional competition for the Sony World Photography Awards 2023 have been announced – the picture of the Afghan soccer players is a standout. And it would be remiss not to point you to this gallery of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspecting things. It’s not new, but it’s the first time we’ve seen it…

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