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.
Over 40 people killed by lightning and landslides in 'worst monsoon season for years'
dailystar.co.ukmilitary has now been deployed in the north-eastern region of Sylhet, which has experienced some of the worst impacts from the flooding.Members of Bangladeshi army, navy and coast guard have joined with local aid workers to relocate people in low-lying areas to higher ground.Widespread power outages left many thousands without power and Osmani International Airport – the third largest airport in Bangladesh – was also forced to close.Sylhet region chief government administrator Mosharraf Hossain told AFP: "The situation is bad.
More than 4m people have been stranded by flood water.“Much of the country’s northeast is under water and the situation is getting worse as heavy downpour continues”.For the latest breaking news and stories from across the globe from the Daily Star, sign up for our newsletter by clicking here.The southern port city of Chattogram experienced two separate landslides on Saturday (June 18), which was confirmed to have led to the deaths of members of two families.While the yearly monsoon is often seen as a lifeline for farmers growing crops in the South Asian nation, this most recent storm is understood to have brought levels of rainfall not seen in the quarter of a century.Some commentators have said climate change could be to blame for the worse-than-usual rainfall.The UN's intergovernmental panel on climate change previously claimed that around 17% of the population of Bangladesh will be forced to move from their homes in the next decade should global warming continue at its present rate..
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