10 minutes ago About sharing By Noor Nanji Culture reporter Taylor Swift’s new album, The Tortured Poets Society, has broken the record for Spotify’s most-streamed in a single day, the platform said. The pop sensation also became the most-streamed artist in a single day. Her hotly anticipated album was released on Friday, sending Swifties around…
17 minutes ago About sharing Ukraine has grown increasingly impatient for more Western support By Anthony Zurcher BBC News, Washington After months of delay, the US House of Representatives appears poised to hold a vote on tens of billions of dollars in American military aid for Ukraine and Israel this weekend. Both measures have vocal…
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35 minutes ago About sharing The PMF’s chief of staff (C-R) visits a man wounded in the explosion at a hospital A military base in Iraq housing a pro-Iranian militia has been damaged in an explosion, killing one and wounding eight, security officials there have said. Iraq’s military reported no drones or fighter jets in…
The car they were travelling in broke through a fence at a retail park and hit a footbridge.
The latest round in the region’s most dangerous rivalry appears to be over, for now. Israel still has not officially acknowledged that the attack in Iran in the early hours of Friday morning was its doing. Meanwhile, Iran’s military and political leaders have downplayed, dismissed and even mocked that anything of consequence happened at all….
The Scottish Greens have called an EGM after the Scottish government ditched key climate change targets.
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8 minutes ago About sharing Someone screamed ‘don’t do it’ before man set himself on fire – BBC reporter By Thomas Mackintosh BBC News A man who set himself on fire outside the Manhattan court where former President Donald Trump’s hush-money trial is being held has died. Maxwell Azzarello, 37, doused himself in a liquid…
4 hours ago About sharing The Tortured Poets Department, released on Friday, features 31 songs By Noor Nanji & Annabel Rackham Culture reporters For two female journalists in their 30s – who also happen to be massive Swifties – there’s a lot about Taylor Swift’s new album that rings true. From partners who strung us…