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.
Osama bin Laden pal Adel Abdel Bary to cost taxpayer £400,000 after return to UK
mirror.co.ukIt could cost £400,000 a year to monitor Osama bin Laden’s former spin doctor. Counter-terror police and MI5 will have to keep tabs on Adel Abdel Bary as he settles back in the UK after being freed in the US.
Officials were unable to block Bary’s return because he successfully sought asylum here in 1997. Bary, 60, was implicated in the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya which killed 224.
They were masterminded by bin Laden, responsible for the 9/11 attacks in New York. An ex-military intelligence officer said: “They will want to know who he talks to, how does he communicate and what are his intentions. "This may cost three or four hundred thousand a year. "He may have to be monitored discreetly for several years.” The
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