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.
Salman Rushdie “Taken Off Ventilator, Able To Talk” In Hospital Following Stabbing Friday
deadline.comStabbed author Salman Rushdie has been taken off a ventilator, is alert and able to speak, his agent has revealed.Rushdie, 75 years old, was rushed to hospital on Friday after he was attacked on stage at a conference near Buffalo, New York.
The author was reported to have been stabbed up to 15 times by his assailant, who mounted the stage in front of a crowd of hundreds to attack Rushdie.Rushdie’s agent previously informed media that his client was in a critical condition, that he was likely to lose an eye, and had also suffered damage to his arm and his liver.
The author has lived for decades with threats to his life, following the publication in 1988 of his novel The Satanic Verses, which some deemed to be anti-Islamic and blasphemous.He was forced to go into hiding for many years after Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini declared a fatwa against the author, with a multi-million dollar bounty on his head.
Meanwhile, the man who stabbed Rushdie has been charged with attempted murder in the second degree and assault in the second degree.
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