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.
Little girl's life saved in Manchester by new gene therapy treatment in UK first
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA little girl has been become the first patient in the UK to get life-saving gene therapy treatment for a fatal disorder on the NHS - in Manchester.
In children, genetic disease metachromatic leukodystrophy - MLD for short - causes severe damage to the nervous system and organs, resulting in a life expectancy of between just five and eight years.
The most common form of MLD usually develops in babies younger than 30 months and can lead to loss of sight, speech and hearing, as well as movement difficulty, brain impairment and seizures, said the NHS.
The genetic disorder prevents the development of a crucial enzyme that leads to a build-up of fats that destroy protective layers around a child's nerves.
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