You can’t keep a dedicated performing arts pro retired for long!
When she took her final bow at the end of the 2024-2025 season after 25 years of leading UCSB Arts & Lectures (A&L), Celesta M. Billeci made some vague comments about not…

You can’t keep a dedicated performing arts pro retired for long!
When she took her final bow at the end of the 2024-2025 season after 25 years of leading UCSB Arts & Lectures (A&L), Celesta M. Billeci made some vague comments about not…

Ministries to suggest steps to rationalise budget, attract investment and exit IMF
Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb is interviewed during the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors’ Meeting at the IMF and World Bank’s 2024 annual…
The Santa Barbara Independent republishes stories from CalMatters.org on state and local issues impacting readers in Santa Barbara County.
The rest of the country may remember Hollywood legend Rob Reiner for his work in front of and…

Emma Loffhagen’s article on declining sales of factual books seems to suggest that, in a time of gathering darkness, fiction offers escapism, while nonfiction grapples bleakly with the world as it is (Are we falling out of love with…


Researchers at MUSC Hollings Cancer Center have identified a promising new weapon in the fight against head and neck cancers. The preclinical drug attacks cancer cells from within by damaging their mitochondria, the cells’ energy factories.

The Murray State Racers carry a five-game win streak into Sunday’s game at Valparaiso in a 1 p.m. Central Time tip at the Athletics Recreation Center in Valparaiso, Indiana.
On Thursday, the Racers (9-3) won their fourth-straight Missouri Valley…

BRIDGEPORT, Pa. — The Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches (ACWPC) announced the selection of the organization’s 2025 Men’s Division I All-America Teams today. The Bruins had five…

Accolades | December 19, 2025
Chambers Asia-Pacific
Gibson Dunn received 11 practice area rankings, including four Band 1 rankings, as well as nine individual rankings in the 2026 edition of Chambers Asia-Pacific. The firm was ranked in the Asia-Pacific Region-wide categories for Corporate/M&A, Corporate/M&A: Private Equity, Energy & Natural Resources, and Investment Funds: Private Equity, as well as in the following: India Corporate/M&A, Indonesia Corporate & Finance, Singapore Banking & Finance: International, Singapore Corporate/M&A: International, Singapore Energy & Natural Resources: International, Singapore Investment Funds: International, and Singapore Restructuring/Insolvency: International.
The following lawyers were ranked individually in their respective categories: partner John Fadely in Singapore Investment Funds; of counsel U-Shaun Lim in Singapore Banking & Finance; partner Ben Shorten in Vietnam Projects, Infrastructure & Energy; of counsel Karthik Ashwin Thiagarajan in India Corporate/M&A; partner Jamie Thomas in Indonesia Banking & Finance, Singapore Banking & Finance, and Singapore Restructuring/Insolvency; and partner Fang Xue in Singapore Corporate/M&A.
The rankings were released on December 11, 2025.
