Qatar's Father Emir Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani has died at the age of 74. He ruled for 18 years, reshaping the country's domestic and global footprint.
Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Jamjoom takes a look back at his life.
Jay Z says every label called him terrible and nothing sold his first album from the trunk of his Lexus turned $1,500 to $2,500,000,000 empire
‘I had to put Reasonable doubt out myself nobody would sign me I went to every single record label and they were like this guy is terrible he’s nothing’
‘So I had Dame dash pooled what little money they had started Roc-A-Fella records and drove up and down the east coast selling CDs from the trunk of my white Lexus to my mom and pop record store’
‘50,000 copies hand to hand before a single record label paid attention, now I’m worth $2.5B’
All the records broken by Lionel Messi today:
Most FIFA World Cup finals goals by a football (soccer) player - 18
Most FIFA World Cup matches played in by an individual - 28
Most matches won by a player at the football (soccer) FIFA World Cup - 18
Most minutes played in the football (soccer) FIFA World Cup - 2,489
We are witnessing history.
Charlie Sheen reveals he only did 8 episodes at his record TV salary, blew through a giant line of credit, then sold his Two and a Half Men back-end to wipe the debt and gave away all his residuals
“Based on choices that I made during anger management, I came to this place where everybody thinks that, oh, cuz that contract and all this. I think I only did eight episodes at that fee. At that fee, that crazy fee, okay, which is still more than anyone deserves.”
“And so I had a crooked business manager at the time and I said, I haven't felt rich. I want to feel rich. I've never felt like actually like rich.”
“So, I want to buy an airplane, you know? He's like, 'Well, no, just charter.' I'm like, 'No, no, no. I got to I can buy half of this one airplane.' And he's like, 'The front or the back?' I'm like, 'Fuck off.'”
“And then lived like a rockstar, a billionaire. Yeah. And loved it until..”
“I got to tell Monica, he was spending 15 to $30,000 a day on crack.”
“And it came time to pay off that line of credit and the only asset I had was my back end on Two and a Half, which would pay in increments a little bit every quarterly.”
“Six people had their hands in it.”
“And so I chose to not be held hostage by the bank and just sold that and paid that and just wiped the slate.”
“I was like let's just make that go away.”