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.
At least 40 people have died after a plane carrying 72 people has crash landed near Pokhara International Airport, Nepal, in the early hours of this morning.
The daily Kathmandu Post newspaper reported there was 68 passengers and four crew members aboard, quoting a spokesperson for Yeti Airlines.A rescue operation is believed to be underway with some survivors reportedly taken to hospital.
Chief District Officer Tek Bahadur KC initially told local news that "around 30 bodies have been recovered", but a grim tally updated to 40 short while later, reports the Mirror.Initial unconfirmed reports say there were a total of 15 foreign nationals on board - five Indians, four Russians, one Irish, one Australian, one French, one Argentine and two South Koreans, the Kathmandu Post reported.
Three of the passengers were infants, three were children and the remaining 62 were adults. Fifty-three Nepalis are thought to have been killed, the Post said.Images and videos shared on Twitter showed plumes of smoke billowing from the crash site.
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