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SZA Is Ready to Create Grammy History with ‘SOS’
SZA’s critically praised album SOS is more than just a contender for Album of the Year at the forthcoming 66th Grammy Awards; it has the ability to make history. If SZA wins the Grammy as a lead artist, she will be the first Black woman to do so since Lauryn Hill’s classic The Miseducation of…
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Adele defends fan who was told to sit down at Las Vegas concert
Getty Images By Steven McIntosh Entertainment reporter An Adele fan has thanked the star for “standing up for me” after she paused a concert on Saturday when she saw a security guard telling him to sit down. The singer was playing as part of her Las Vegas residency but stopped while performing Water Under the…
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Luis Rubiales: Hermoso kiss ‘shows why women don’t report abuse’
Reuters By Fiona Nimoni BBC News It has been a tumultuous week for women’s football, as it deals with the aftermath of Luis Rubiales kissing Spanish national star Jenni Hermoso on the lips at the Women’s World Cup final. The row over the Spanish football president’s actions, broadcast and seen by millions, has spilled over…
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Toyota halts all Japan assembly plants due to glitch
Toyota By Peter Hoskins Business reporter Japanese motor industry giant Toyota has suspended operations at all of its assembly plants in its home country due to a glitch in its production system. The move has brought domestic production at the world’s biggest-selling car maker to a standstill. The malfunction has meant the firm has not…
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G20: Putin tells India PM Modi he will not attend Delhi summit
Getty Images Russian President Vladimir Putin has told Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi over a phone call that he will not attend the G20 Summit. India is hosting this year’s summit, which will be held in capital Delhi from 9-10 September. Mr Putin told Mr Modi that Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov would attend the summit…
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Live worm found in Australian woman’s brain in world first
ANU By Phil Mercer BBC News, Sydney In a world first, scientists say that an 8cm worm has been found alive in the brain of an Australian woman. The “string-like structure” was pulled from the England-born patient’s damaged frontal lobe tissue during surgery in Canberra last year. The red parasite could have been there for…
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‘Dying by the dozens every day’
DARREN CONWAY/BBC There has been a dramatic rise in Ukraine’s number of dead, according to new estimates by unnamed US officials. The BBC’s Quentin Sommerville has been on the front line in the east, where the grim task of counting the dead has become a daily reality. The unknown soldiers lie piled high in a…
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Eminem tells Republican Vivek Ramaswamy to stop rapping his songs
Getty Images Lawyers for Eminem have sent a letter to aspiring Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy asking that he stop rapping to his songs. The letter comes more than a week after the biotech entrepreneur delivered an impromptu performance of “Lose Yourself” at the Iowa State Fair. The letter, dated 23 August, was sent by…
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Three hanged for Iraq bombing that killed more than 300 people
AFP via Getty Images By George Wright BBC News Iraq has hanged three people convicted of involvement in a vehicle bombing in Baghdad that killed more than 300 people and injured hundreds in 2016. It was the deadliest single bombing in Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003. The Islamic State group (IS) said it…
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Helicopter crash: US marines killed in Australia identified
US Marines By Tiffanie Turnbull BBC News, Sydney Three US marines who were killed in a fiery helicopter crash during a military drill in Australia have been identified. The MV-22B Osprey came down on a remote island north of Darwin on Sunday. Captain Eleanor LeBeau, 29, Corporal Spencer Collart, 21, and Major Tobin Lewis, 37,…