PA Taylor Swift’s latest accolade follows a record-breaking year for the pop sensation Taylor Swift has become the youngest female artist inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. It follows a glittering few years for the 36-year-old pop superstar, who broke her own sales record with her latest album, The Life of a Showgirl, in…
Parts of Russia’s Far East have been buried under its heaviest snowfall in 60 years, as scientists say the winter blast could be due to climate change affecting Arctic air patterns. In Kamchatka Peninsula, locals were seen shovelling in the streets, as rescuers helped people trapped in their homes. Public transportation was partially suspended in…
Ros Atkins on… Trump’s Davos speech claims In a free-wheeling speech to world leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, President Trump made a series of contested claims. Trump touched on his desire to obtain Greenland from Denmark – which he referred to as a “small ask”, America’s contribution to Nato, and wind…
Bethany BellVienna correspondent Reuters Egisto Ott is accused of collecting large amounts of data and handing information to Russian intelligence Former intelligence official Egisto Ott goes on trial in Vienna on Thursday, accused of spying for Russia in what is being dubbed Austria’s biggest spy trial in years. Egisto Ott, 63, is charged with having…
BBC/Getty Images Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni have been at loggerheads since starring together in It Ends With Us Blake Lively referred to Justin Baldoni as a “doofus director” and a “clown”, according to newly unsealed court documents from the actress’s legal case. The pair starred together in It Ends With Us, but Lively sued…
Faisal IslamEconomics editor Getty Images I was in the room when President Donald Trump entered and it’s fair to say he got a good welcome from the crowd, certainly at the beginning. A standing ovation. On top of that, there was an astonishing scrum to try to get in, with many turned away – even…
Ghislaine Maxwell, the jailed associate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has agreed to testify under oath before the congressional committee investigating the federal government’s handling of the Epstein cases. Committee chairman James Comer, who is leading the investigation, says Maxwell will depose virtually on 9 February. Maxwell’s legal team has previously said she would…
Every morning before sunrise in Nuuk, when the streets are still quiet and the sky is only beginning to lighten, Jens Kjeldsen turns up outside the small wooden US Consulate building with a simple but striking message. In the biting mid-winter cold, he stands with three flags, Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands, protesting against…
Bernd Debusmann JrWhite House reporter Watch: The BBC’s Faisal Islam on how Trump’s Davos speech received President Donald Trump has said he no longer plans to impose tariffs on European countries that had opposed his ambitions for the US to acquire Greenland. In a social media post, Trump said his decision followed a “very productive…
Nick BeakeEurope correspondent, Brussels AFP via Getty Images Donald Trump delivered a wide-ranging speech at the Davos summit in Switzerland “Without us, right now you’d all be speaking German,” President Donald Trump told his audience at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss Alps on Wednesday. He may well have forgotten German is the most…