LeBron James was greeted by hundreds of fans in Hong Kong last month, as he promoted his new range of Nike trainers. Dubbed the "Chosen One" by Sports Illustrated when he was still a high-school junior, the basketball player grew up in the spotlight and completed his media ascent in 2008, when he became the first African-American man (and the third male in general) to grace the cover of Vogue. Criticised as "racially insensitive", the image showed James striking a primate-like pose while clutching a damsel-in-distress. It was reminiscent of a film poster with a certain famous gorilla. The blonde from the 1933 King Kong would be Fay Wray, the one on the Vogue cover was Brazilian model Gisele Bundchen …
Coelho's tomes are not to everyone's taste. One reviewer from British newspaper The Independent likened the philosophical conundrums his novels pose to "something David Hasselhoff might spout after a particularly taxing Baywatch rescue". Coelho is most likely too busy to read what his critics write - he writes, on average, a book a year. His most famous novel, The Alchemist, which has sold more than 65 million copies, was penned in two weeks because the story "was already written in [his] soul". A few other souls have also helped Coelho write: his 2005 book The Zahir sprouted from a meeting with British journalist Christina Lamb …
In 2012, Malala was shot by a Taliban who had boarded her school bus. The bullet lodged in her shoulder and she lived to tell the tale. Since her ordeal, the now 17-year-old has founded the Malala Fund, which is dedicated to educating young girls around the world. She has also visited Nigeria to lobby President Goodluck Jonathan into doing more to find the more than 250 girls captured by Islamic terrorists. Last year, she received an invitation to the White House to talk about the drone war being waged around her hometown by United States President Barack Obama …