BSB is in town: The five members of pop band the Backstreet Boys have landed in Cairo andtook a tour of the Pyramids of Giza ahead of their concert tomorrow, according to a press release (pdf). The band — which, to many, are a symbol of the 1990s and early 2000s — are performing at Zed East, New Cairo as part of their DNA World Tour to promote their ninth studio album.

Hard luck, Qatar? Manchester United could go to Sir Jim Ratcliffe as he outbid Qatar’s Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani,the BBC reported yesterday. While the exact figure offered by the INEOS Group Limited CEO was not disclosed, it would value the club at more than the GBP 5 bn made by the son of former Qatari Prime Minister, the Guardian reports. While Sheikh Jassim wants to own 100% of the club, Ratcliffe’s GBP 5 bn offer is for a majority stake.

Still not enough? The two offers fall short of the GBP 6 bn valuation by the current club owners, the American Glazer family, according to the Guardian. The race for the football club has been heating up since the beginning of the year, with Ratcliffe, Sheikh Jassim, and US-based hedge fund Elliott Investment Management all getting in on the action. Ratcliffe hired JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs to advise on the transaction.

The real milestones for women in the workplace: There are now more women CEOs at S&P 500 companies than the number of CEO positions held by any single male given name, reports Bloomberg. The statistic watch was initiated by a New York Times article that garnered popularity in 2015, after it reported that fewer women ran big companies than men named John. Now, separate reports from a Stanford University economics doctoral student and Bloomberg indicate that as of the past year, no single male name outnumbered the number of women CEOs among S&P 500 companies. According to the data, women CEOs had previously outstripped singular male names in 2018 — only to tie with CEOs named James the following year.

It’s actually goodbye to any Tom, Dick, or Harry: The updated statistics reflect a greater diversity amongst S&P 500 CEOs, suggests Bloomberg, which reported that there are now 186 unique first names that appear in the index, up from 133 in 2015. The change has largely been driven by the rise of non-Western or otherwise non-Biblical first names, like Reshma Kewalramani, CEO of Vertex Pharma. It’s still a slow trudge, with only 41 (a measly 8%) of the S&P 500 CEOs being women. For comparison, CEOs named John (or Jon), Tom, Dick or Harry account for 47 of the top spots.

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