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.
Russia launches new nuclear-powered strike submarine amid rising tension with West
mirror.co.ukRussia will launch a new ultra-modern nuclear-powered submarine this week as the nation flexes its military might amid a ramping up of tensions with the West.
The state-of-the-art 'Kazan' will be unveiled on Friday ahead of huge military parades marking the end of the Second World War in Europe two days later, news agency Tass reports.
It comes after tensions threatened to boil over in eastern Ukraine with a Russian military build-up near its border. Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 and despite a peace deal brokered the following year shelling and skirmishes have continued.
Leaders across the West and Ukraine have now become worried about the Russian troops' concentration and have urged Moscow to pull them back.
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