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Hype Malaysia
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Hype Malaysia
K-pop Group HIGHLIGHT Announces Asia Tour; Malaysia Show Set For September
Last week, rumours began circulating that K-pop boy group HIGHLIGHT (하이라이트), formerly known as BEAST (비스트), would be holding a concert in Malaysia later this year. Speculation arose after GME International teased fans with an image of a flower encased in a lightbulb, set against a backdrop of metal chains — a clear nod to the group's official lightstick and their latest track, 'Chains'. Well, it appears that fans' guesses were correct as it has now been confirmed that the idols will be making their way to our shores this September. Here's what we know so far: HIGHLIGHT first rose to fame as BEAST, debuting in 2009 under Cube Entertainment. In 2016, members Yoon Doo-joon, Yang Yo-seob, Lee Gi-kwang and Son Dong-woon ended their contracts with the agency and announced their departure. However, much to fans' delight, the group rebranded as HIGHLIGHT the following year after signing with Around Us Entertainment. Since their re-debut, HIGHLIGHT have released several hit tracks, including 'It's Still Beautiful', 'Take Care', 'BODY', 'Switch On', and their latest single, 'Chains'. Earlier today (Monday, 19th May), the quartet officially announced that they'll be embarking on their [RIDE OR DIE] tour across Asia, and Malaysia is confirmed as one of the stops. Here are the details revealed so far: HIGHLIGHT LIVE 2025 [RIDE OR DIE] in Malaysia Date: 27th September 2025 (Saturday) 27th September 2025 (Saturday) Venue: TBA TBA Organiser: GME International Other confirmed stops on the tour so far include Manila, Taipei, Tokyo, and Bangkok. It's also worth noting that additional dates may still be announced, meaning there's a chance the group could perform in other neighbouring countries such as Singapore or Indonesia. While we wait for more updates, how about we enjoy HIGHLIGHT's latest single 'Chains'? Source: Instagram
The Guardian
24-04-2025
- Health
- The Guardian
‘Rob just put it down to bad luck': Lindsey Burrow on her husband, MND and running her own marathons
This weekend Lindsey Burrow will run the London Marathon. Two weeks later, she will run the Leeds Marathon. And she's not even what she'd call a good runner. 'I think coming from Yorkshire and having that Yorkshire grit,' she says, with a smile, 'I'm just quite stubborn.' Burrow has always found getting out for a run good for her mental state and in the nine months since she lost her husband, it has become vital. 'It's just given me that headspace to go out and focus on something positive,' she says, speaking on Zoom from her Pontefract home. 'And the marathons have given me a goal.' It was at the start of last June that Rob Burrow, the Leeds rugby league legend, died with motor neurone disease. He was 41 and had spent the five years since his diagnosis raising awareness of MND and fundraising for a cure. His positivity and determination in facing the condition that would trap him, speechless and immobile, in a wasting body, was a reflection of both his on- and off-pitch persona. Burrow has no doubt that his rugby league journey played its part. 'Sport had such a massive impact on Rob and his mentality,' she says. 'He was often told he was never going to make it as a rugby player, he was too small, he didn't fit the mould. Standing up to players that were two or three times his weight, his size, but not showing that he was tired, not showing that he was fatigued or possibly injured – that was the bravery that sport instilled in him.' They met when they were teenagers and had been together ever since. In the book she co-wrote with Donald McRae this year, Take Care, she charts their lives together – from young love story (Rob first noticed her wearing her Castleford shirt) to shared parenting (he would always rather pick up his kids up from school than hang out with the lads after training) to the diagnosis that changed everything. 'Rob had been pound for pound the strongest player in the Leeds team,' remembers Burrow. 'He was unbelievably fit. So to be struck down with something like MND was such a shock.' Burrow's medical background – she is an NHS physiotherapist – meant she had seen the effects of MND before. In the book she describes sitting in the doctor's room, feeling like she's been silently blown apart. 'I understand far too clearly what it means. Rob will be buried alive in his own body. He will be trapped and paralysed beneath the rubble.' When Rob was a player, she dreaded going to his games, filled with anxiety about the batterings he took. 'To me, it was never about the score. I just wanted Rob home in one piece.' She has never forgotten the time when, playing for England in a World Cup match, she saw him knocked out and laying lifeless on the pitch. 'And then at Elland Road, they were playing in the World Club Challenge [against Sydney Roosters in 2009] and he was knocked out, and I was working on a spinal unit at the time. Having that insight made it really scary because you knew what rugby players put their bodies through. The impact on their bodies is just incredible, something like being in a 40mph car crash. You can hear it pitchside.' Research on the long-term cognitive and neurological effects of rugby concussions has already led to changes in both codes of the sport, from on- and off-field medical protocols to smart mouthguards that measure the force of head collisions. 'And obviously,' says Burrow, 'it was a question that I thought of. Has rugby contributed to this in some way?' Her mother-in-law, Irene, believes it could have. Bioscientists at Durham University discovered last year that rugby players who suffered multiple concussions had abnormal levels of particular proteins that play a crucial role in the development of both Alzheimer's and MND. 'But you look at the spectrum of people that get MND and there's people that have never played sport that sit in an office that get it. So it's really difficult, I don't know the answer. 'Rob's take on it was that he just put it down to bad luck. It is such a complex cellular disease that I don't think it's particularly one factor. And we need more research.' It has not put Burrow off introducing their son to the game. 'Although he's a sensitive little soul, bless him,' smiles Burrow. 'He does get mothered a lot I think by having two older sisters. I think if Rob was here he'd be like: 'Come on, Jackson, toughen up.'' Jackson was only six when Rob died; when he attended his first training session last month, the fact that people there had heard of and known his father delighted him. One day, when it's less raw, Burrow will show him footage of Rob in his playing days. It was a feature of their marriage that the scrum-half never brought his 'rugby self' home and Burrow was 'horrified, mortified' to discover, on reading Rob's autobiography, the pranks he pulled in the dressing room, like peeing on his teammates in the shower. 'He was such a family man! And very traditional in his values, you know – always made sure the children had good manners, they were polite … and then there was him going off and doing that.' Sign up to The Recap The best of our sports journalism from the past seven days and a heads-up on the weekend's action after newsletter promotion And yet the game will always be a part of her family's life. She loves going to Leeds Rhinos matches and talking to the new generation of talent that Rob had begun coaching before his illness, although it's still bittersweet. 'Many of them talk about how inspiring Rob was,' she says. 'I think he would have been really good as a coach.' The support from the team and the wider rugby league community continues, and in May Leeds' fixture against Wakefield Trinity will be an MND fundraiser, while Kevin Sinfield continues to complete ultramarathons in his best friend's memory ('I do keep thinking: Look, I'm moaning, I'm running two marathons in two weeks, Kevin does seven in seven days,' laughs Burrow). The solidarity of the sporting world has created a real movement around MND awareness. One of the most powerful moments in her book is when Rob meets rugby union's Doddie Weir, the former Scotland lock, for the first time. Weir had been living with MND for five years at that point, and his fighting spirit had an immediate effect: 'Rob came back and said: 'Right, you know, there's no more tears now, we get on with life.'' And last month, football's Marcus Stewart – diagnosed in 2022 – walked from Wembley to Ipswich with a host of supporters. 'It's not a community that anybody wants to be part of, but actually it's such a beautiful community,' says Burrow. 'It would have been quite easy for any of them to kind of say, you know, right, shut my doors, my time is with my family now.' Instead, with Rob determined to make the most of every moment remaining to him the naturally private Burrow cared for him in the public eye, from their kids' activities to their media appearances. And while that did help increase understanding of the condition – consultants now have patients presenting with what they call 'the Rob Burrow disease' – Burrow suspects it did something else too. 'It's shown people with MND that even at your most vulnerable you don't have to shy away and be ashamed. And that people really do care.' As for his life in rugby league, she wants people to know that Rob had no regrets. 'I asked him: if playing rugby has played a part in you being diagnosed with MND, would you change it? And Rob said: 'Absolutely not. I've travelled the world, the team friendships, the camaraderie, the experiences that I've had, I wouldn't change any of that.'' Take Care by Lindsey Burrow is published by Penguin and available to buy now at the Guardian Bookshop and other outlets.
Yahoo
24-04-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
‘Rob just put it down to bad luck': Lindsey Burrow on her husband, MND and running her own marathons
This weekend Lindsey Burrow will run the London Marathon. Two weeks later, she will run the Leeds Marathon. And she's not even what she'd call a good runner. 'I think coming from Yorkshire and having that Yorkshire grit,' she says, with a smile, 'I'm just quite stubborn.' Burrow has always found getting out for a run good for her mental state and in the nine months since she lost her husband, it has become vital. 'It's just given me that headspace to go out and focus on something positive,' she says, speaking on Zoom from her Pontefract home. 'And the marathons have given me a goal.' Advertisement Related: Rob Burrow was a rugby league giant and a most extraordinary man | Donald McRae It was at the start of last June that Rob Burrow, the Leeds rugby league legend, died with motor neurone disease. He was 41 and had spent the five years since his diagnosis raising awareness of MND and fundraising for a cure. His positivity and determination in facing the condition that would trap him, speechless and immobile, in a wasting body, was a reflection of both his on- and off-pitch persona. Burrow has no doubt that his rugby league journey played its part. 'Sport had such a massive impact on Rob and his mentality,' she says. 'He was often told he was never going to make it as a rugby player, he was too small, he didn't fit the mould. Standing up to players that were two or three times his weight, his size, but not showing that he was tired, not showing that he was fatigued or possibly injured – that was the bravery that sport instilled in him.' They met when they were teenagers and had been together ever since. In the book she co-wrote with Donald McRae this year, Take Care, she charts their lives together – from young love story (Rob first noticed her wearing her Castleford shirt) to shared parenting (he would always rather pick up his kids up from school than hang out with the lads after training) to the diagnosis that changed everything. 'Rob had been pound for pound the strongest player in the Leeds team,' remembers Burrow. 'He was unbelievably fit. So to be struck down with something like MND was such a shock.' Advertisement Burrow's medical background – she is an NHS physiotherapist – meant she had seen the effects of MND before. In the book she describes sitting in the doctor's room, feeling like she's been silently blown apart. 'I understand far too clearly what it means. Rob will be buried alive in his own body. He will be trapped and paralysed beneath the rubble.' When Rob was a player, she dreaded going to his games, filled with anxiety about the batterings he took. 'To me, it was never about the score. I just wanted Rob home in one piece.' She has never forgotten the time when, playing for England in a World Cup match, she saw him knocked out and laying lifeless on the pitch. 'And then at Elland Road, they were playing in the World Club Challenge [against Sydney Roosters in 2009] and he was knocked out, and I was working on a spinal unit at the time. Having that insight made it really scary because you knew what rugby players put their bodies through. The impact on their bodies is just incredible, something like being in a 40mph car crash. You can hear it pitchside.' Research on the long-term cognitive and neurological effects of rugby concussions has already led to changes in both codes of the sport, from on- and off-field medical protocols to smart mouthguards that measure the force of head collisions. 'And obviously,' says Burrow, 'it was a question that I thought of. Has rugby contributed to this in some way?' Advertisement Her mother-in-law, Irene, believes it could have. Bioscientists at Durham University discovered last year that rugby players who suffered multiple concussions had abnormal levels of particular proteins that play a crucial role in the development of both Alzheimer's and MND. 'But you look at the spectrum of people that get MND and there's people that have never played sport that sit in an office that get it. So it's really difficult, I don't know the answer. 'Rob's take on it was that he just put it down to bad luck. It is such a complex cellular disease that I don't think it's particularly one factor. And we need more research.' It has not put Burrow off introducing their son to the game. 'Although he's a sensitive little soul, bless him,' smiles Burrow. 'He does get mothered a lot I think by having two older sisters. I think if Rob was here he'd be like: 'Come on, Jackson, toughen up.'' Jackson was only six when Rob died; when he attended his first training session last month, the fact that people there had heard of and known his father delighted him. One day, when it's less raw, Burrow will show him footage of Rob in his playing days. It was a feature of their marriage that the scrum-half never brought his 'rugby self' home and Burrow was 'horrified, mortified' to discover, on reading Rob's autobiography, the pranks he pulled in the dressing room, like peeing on his teammates in the shower. 'He was such a family man! And very traditional in his values, you know – always made sure the children had good manners, they were polite … and then there was him going off and doing that.' Advertisement And yet the game will always be a part of her family's life. She loves going to Leeds Rhinos matches and talking to the new generation of talent that Rob had begun coaching before his illness, although it's still bittersweet. 'Many of them talk about how inspiring Rob was,' she says. 'I think he would have been really good as a coach.' The support from the team and the wider rugby league community continues, and in May Leeds' fixture against Wakefield Trinity will be an MND fundraiser, while Kevin Sinfield continues to complete ultramarathons in his best friend's memory ('I do keep thinking: Look, I'm moaning, I'm running two marathons in two weeks, Kevin does seven in seven days,' laughs Burrow). The solidarity of the sporting world has created a real movement around MND awareness. One of the most powerful moments in her book is when Rob meets rugby union's Doddie Weir, the former Scotland lock, for the first time. Weir had been living with MND for five years at that point, and his fighting spirit had an immediate effect: 'Rob came back and said: 'Right, you know, there's no more tears now, we get on with life.'' And last month, football's Marcus Stewart – diagnosed in 2022 – walked from Wembley to Ipswich with a host of supporters. 'It's not a community that anybody wants to be part of, but actually it's such a beautiful community,' says Burrow. 'It would have been quite easy for any of them to kind of say, you know, right, shut my doors, my time is with my family now.' Advertisement Instead, with Rob determined to make the most of every moment remaining to him the naturally private Burrow cared for him in the public eye, from their kids' activities to their media appearances. And while that did help increase understanding of the condition – consultants now have patients presenting with what they call 'the Rob Burrow disease' – Burrow suspects it did something else too. 'It's shown people with MND that even at your most vulnerable you don't have to shy away and be ashamed. And that people really do care.' As for his life in rugby league, she wants people to know that Rob had no regrets. 'I asked him: if playing rugby has played a part in you being diagnosed with MND, would you change it? And Rob said: 'Absolutely not. I've travelled the world, the team friendships, the camaraderie, the experiences that I've had, I wouldn't change any of that.'' Take Care by Lindsey Burrow is published by Penguin and available to buy now at the Guardian Bookshop and other outlets.
Express Tribune
09-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
Drake surpasses The Beatles for longest time charting on the Billboard 200
Drake has officially made history once again—this time by surpassing one of the greatest musical acts of all time. The Canadian superstar has overtaken The Beatles to become the artist with the most cumulative weeks on the Billboard 200 chart. Drake's albums have now collectively spent over 3,346 weeks on the Billboard 200, breaking the record previously held by the legendary British band. Known for redefining modern pop and rock in the 1960s, The Beatles set a gold standard for success in the music industry, holding countless records for decades. Their impact on global music culture remains unparalleled, but Drake's latest achievement shows how today's streaming era has allowed a new generation of artists to reach extraordinary heights. Among Drake's biggest chart successes: Take Care has spent an astonishing 578 weeks on the Billboard 200, Nothing Was the Same boasts 505 weeks, Views holds strong with 411 weeks, More Life follows with 350 weeks, and Scorpion rounds out with 300 weeks on the chart. In addition to this historic feat, Drake continues to dominate across multiple fronts. He holds numerous Billboard records, including: Most Billboard Hot 100 entries (358), Most Top 10 hits (80), Most Top 5 hits (42), and the longest consecutive Hot 100 streak at 431 weeks. He also ties Jay-Z and Taylor Swift for the most Billboard 200 No. 1 albums by a solo artist, with 14 chart-toppers to his name. From his early days blending rap and R&B on So Far Gone to becoming a global pop culture icon, Drake has consistently evolved while staying at the top of the game. Much like The Beatles once symbolized the height of musical success for their generation, Drake now represents the epitome of modern commercial dominance. Breaking The Beatles' record is no small feat—it cements Drake's legacy not just as one of the biggest names in hip-hop, but as one of the most successful music artists in history.
Yahoo
27-02-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
William praises Lindsey Burrow for memoir of ‘compassion, perseverance and love'
The Prince of Wales has hailed Lindsey Burrow, the widow of motor neurone disease (MND) campaigner Rob Burrow, for sharing her 'story of compassion, perseverance and love' in a foreword for her new book. William, at the start of Take Care: A Memoir Of Love, Family & Never Giving Up which was published on Thursday, said those caring for family members 'shoulder unimaginable burdens' but their work behind closed doors is 'sadly under-recognised'. The prince, who also recorded his message for the audio book version, described how he was struck by Lindsey's 'incredible strength, positivity and resilience'. The day is here! Take Care is out now. When His Royal Highness Prince William said that he would write the foreword for the book I was beyond honoured. If you get the book in audio, you will even hear the foreword read by HRH Prince William. You can hear a short clip here. — Rob Burrow CBE (@Rob7Burrow) February 27, 2025 Former rugby league star Burrow died in June last year at the age of 41 after a long battle with MND. With the support of Lindsey, who provided round-the-clock care, and former Leeds Rhinos teammate and friend Kevin Sinfield, Burrow raised more than £15 million for charity to help MND patients and fund research into the disease. William, who surprised Burrow and Sinfield by presenting them with their CBE honours at Headingley Stadium last year, revealed how Rob had told him Lindsey was 'far tougher than any of the men he had played with'. 'I know that I am not alone in feeling great admiration for how she has kept going in the face of such adversity,' William said, adding that he was 'struck by the incredible strength, positivity and resilience of Lindsey'. He added: 'Those caring for family members themselves shoulder unimaginable burdens. 'Their selflessness, kindness and compassion for others dramatically reduces pressure on our services, but the work they carry out is often behind closed doors and therefore sadly under-recognised.' He said the book contained 'Lindsey's story of compassion, perseverance and love. 'By sharing her story, she is shining a light on those who are dealing with incredibly difficult situations, putting others' needs before their own and making great personal sacrifices every day.' He said he hoped the book would help comfort those going through their own challenges and that it 'inspires us all to look out for one another'. William sent a personal message to Burrow's family after his death, which Lindsey described as 'heartwarming and sincere' and 'something that we will treasure as a family forever'. Lindsey juggled her day job with the NHS as a physiotherapist, with round-the-clock care for Rob, who could not move or talk, and could only eat with Lindsey's assistance, while also raising her young family and helping to campaign for awareness of MND.
