Pop singer, TAYLOR SWIFT is the world’s top-earning celebrity, according to an annual countdown of highest-paid stars.

 

Forbes estimates the 29-year-old singer made 185 million dollars in pre-tax earnings in the year beginning 1 June 2018.

 

SWIFT last topped Forbes’ Celebrity 100 in 2016, when her pre-tax earnings were calculated to be 170 million dollars.

 

Social media and reality TV star, KYLIE JENNER is ranked second on the list with an estimated pre-tax pay packet of 170 million dollars.

 

Rapper, KANYE WEST earns third place in this year’s rundown, having made an estimated 150 million dollars.

 

Singer, ED SHEERAN, who is placed fifth in the list, is the highest-ranking Briton with estimated pre-tax earnings of 110 million dollars.

 

 

 

American rapper, ASAP Rocky, currently detained in Stockholm suspected of assault, has appealed his detention to Sweden’s Supreme Court.

 

A Swedish district court decided the 30-year-old artist, whose real name is RAKIM MAYERS, should be kept in custody while prosecutors investigate a June 30 street brawl.

 

MAYERs’ lawyer, HENRIK OLSSON LILJA immediately appealed the decision, but was denied by the court of appeals.

The family of actor, CAMERON BOYCE has confirmed the Disney star has died at the age of 20.

 

A spokesperson said he passed away in his sleep after suffering a seizure.

 

He made his acting debut in the horror film, “Mirrors” but is best known for roles in Disney’s “Descendants” and the TV show “Jessie”.

His death was confirmed on the evening of Saturday 6 July and linked to “an ongoing medical condition”.

 

Cameron Boyce was only nine years old when he appeared in Mirrors.

He then went on to play one of Adam Sandler’s children in the movie”Grown Ups”.

The Police of the Republic of Ireland were reportedly forced to shut down an event headlined by Naira Marley after a gang of youths were spotted fleeing the scene.

 

According to an Irish news website, Dublin Live, the incident occurred at Lost Lane just off Grafton Street before Naira Marley took to the stage to perform.

 

Following the gang violence, Dublin Live reports that the scene has since been closed off to the public.

 

 

It was also reported that a number of weapons were seized and the Irish police have also arrested a man in his 20s in connection with the incident.