Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Beirut explosion: Brits confirmed among injured as death toll continues to rise
dailystar.co.ukAt least 100 people have been killed and 4,000 wounded in the blast on the Lebanon capital's port, believed to have been caused by a vast store of ammonium nitrate that had been lying unsecured in a warehouse for years.Some of those who sustained injuries are Britons, Sky News reports.A Foreign Office spokesperson has confirmed that a small number of staff at the UK embassy in Beirut received non-life threatening injuries in the explosion.No embassy staff were killed, and it remains to be seen whether the death toll includes any Brits.Beirut governor Marwan Abboud has been quoted as saying half the city has been damaged in the blast, and the cost of the damage will likely exceed $3 billion (£760 million).He said approximately 300,000 people.
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