Taylor Swift is one of the most vocal  influential figures  out there.  Taylor is also not someone who lets  issues be buried, taking advantage of whatever platform she is given to voice out her opinions. Recently, during an acceptance speech, the star went on to reiterate her issues with  Big Machine and Scooter Braun. The singer addressed the “unregulated world …

US singer Nick Jonas has opened up about the fight between his puppy German Shepard Gino, that was gifted to him by Priyanka Chopra and the wifey’s dog Diana. Nick Jonas appeared on The Late Late Show recently and talked about the two dogs. The Sucker singer said, “Gino is part of my family now but Diana and this new member are unfortunately at …

Amazon Prime has just acquired the rights of a documentary chronicling the life and times of famed Barbados singing sensation Rihanna, according to Hollywood Reporter. The film has been on the cards for several years and is helmed by Peter Berg, who worked with the Umbrella singer in the 2012 film Battleship. “With unparalleled access into the singer’s life and …

JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and rival Benny Gantz prepared on Thursday for their third election campaigns in a year, with the country trapped in its worst political crisis in decades. Israel’s parliament dissolved itself and called March 2 elections in the early hours of Thursday morning, less than three months after an inconclusive general election saw neither Netanyahu …

WHAKATANE: New Zealand’s military will embark on a risky dawn mission to retrieve eight bodies from the still-active White Island volcano, officials said on Thursday, as pressure from distraught victims’ families mounted. Teams will move in “shortly after first light” on Friday, deputy police commissioner Mike Clement said, despite volcanologists warning that the chances of another significant eruption in the …

  MADRID: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged countries and companies Thursday to tackle climate change, saying failure to do so would mean economic disaster. Speaking at the annual UN climate meeting in Madrid, Guterres said fears that measures to cut greenhouse gas emissions would decimate existing industries ignored the opportunities arising from the ‘green economy.’ “For too long, vested …

ALGIERS: Algeria held a tense presidential election on Thursday meant to bring stability after a year of turmoil, but voting was marred as protesters stormed polling stations and thousands rallied in the capital. The unpopular vote comes almost 10 months after a people power movement ousted president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, 82, after two decades in office, and as demonstrators keep pushing …

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump reprised his ridicule of 16-year-old Greta Thunberg on Thursday after the Swedish climate activist was named Time’s Person of the Year for 2019. Thunberg won the magazine’s annual honorific on Wednesday for her work inspiring millions of young people to take action against climate change. “So ridiculous. Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, …

GUWAHATI: Two people were killed and several wounded on Thursday when police in northeast India opened fire on a large crowd demonstrating against the country’s new citizenship bill. Federal authorities deployed thousands of paramilitaries and blocked mobile internet access in the region, while local police who joined them in opposing protesters defying a curfew in Guwahati, in Assam state, opened …

WASHINGTON: The United States understood Pakistan’s need to use F-16 fighter jets to defend itself during an Indian intrusion in February this year, shows a document published on Thursday. The document, obtained by the US News and World Report magazine, however, also shows that Washington was not happy with Islam­abad’s decision to deploy these US-supplied aircraft and missiles to forward positions. The …