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.
Scandal of the UK holiday firms that promote Asian elephant "hell-holes"
mirror.co.ukThe British tourist industry insists that it values animal welfare, yet new research shows it repeatedly promotes "attractions" in Asia that are responsible for horrific abuse of elephants.
Campaigners say this is proof that the travel industry cannot be trusted to regulate itself and we need Parliament to act by banning the promotion of these appalling tour venues.
There are so few Asian elephants remaining that they are classified as critically endangered, and yet babies are still being stolen from the wild to perform for tourists.
Often the mothers and other older members of the herd are killed trying to protect the young. The captured elephants are subjected to “pajan”, a prolonged period of beatings, imprisonment in tiny cages and near
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