MICHAEL JACKSON CHILDREN TODAY

 In the image, 19-year-old Paris poses in a Metallica hoodie with her brother Prince Michael, 20, to her left, and a family friend, Omer Bhatti, to her direct right, with her youngest brother, Blanket, 15, at the end. 

On Christmas Day, Paris Jackson shared a new family photo, providing a rare sighting of Michael Jackson’s three children together.

"Happy Christmas from ours to yours #brahdas," the caption on the photo reads

Ruth Kadiri, got engaged

It is no longer news that 29-year-old Edo State actress cum producer, Ruth Kadiri, got engaged to her mystery man in Sweden during the week, as she displayed her engagement ring in a post without showing the lucky man whom she allegedly referred to as red cap chief.

Woman gets $284 billion electric bill, wonders whether it's her Christmas lights

You could own all of Netflix. Or purchase 747 Boeing 747s, with change to spare. Or erase the national debts of Venezuela, Nigeria, Peru and Iceland, combined.Or, if you're Mary Horomanski, you could pay for one month's worth of electricity.Horomanski, from Erie, Pennsylvania, was shocked recently when she received an erroneous electric bill displaying an account balance of "284,460,000,000," with a first payment due of $28,176."I opened it up and there it was," she told The Washington Post.Horomanski, 58, began counting the commas ("Hundreds. Thousands. Millions. Billions . . . Can most people even count that high?"), then taking her glasses off and putting them on again."It wasn't due until November of 2018," she said. "It was like, well, I guess we have a year to come up with this billion-dollar bill."

What can you buy with $284 billion?

A wordsmith who spins magic, Lesley Nneka Arimah is our 2017 Artist of the Year

Lesley is a great writer,” said Lisa Lucas, executive director of the National Book Foundation, which honored Arimah with its 5 Under 35 award. “She produced a collection of stories that are really hard to pin down. They’re funny and intelligent and fierce in their own way, and they’re unexpected. I love that I picked up that book and I had no idea what I was picking up. And I left a bit in awe of her craft.”

Arimah is at the forefront of a growing number of young authors, primarily immigrants and writers of color — in the Twin Cities, as well as across the country — who are writing some of the most original and interesting fiction and poetry being published today.

For all of these reasons, Twin Cities writer Lesley Nneka Arimah is the Star Tribune’s Artist of the Year for 2017.