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.
Putin's army 'on brink of collapse' after Russians lose key city, says former army chief
dailystar.co.ukVladimir Putin's army is on the brink of collapse after losing another key city to Ukraine's counteroffensive, according to retired US Army Lieutenant General H.R.
McMaster. On Saturday (October 1) Ukrainian forces swept into the city of Lyman, in the east of the country, which Russia had been using as a logistics hub.
The Russian Defence Ministry announced that it had withdrawn troops from the area later that day. The statement read: "In connection with the creation of a threat of encirclement, allied troops were withdrawn from the settlement of [Lyman] to more advantageous lines."READ MORE: Putin's warlord pal to send his sons aged 14, 15 and 16 to fight in war in UkraineSome 5,000 Ukrainian troops were reported to have surrounded the city.
To make matters more embarrassing for Russia's blundering tyrant, the defeat came just one day after Putin had illegally annexed the Donetsk region where Lyman is located.
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