LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Country-pop starlet Taylor Swift, who rocketed to stardom with ballads of teen love that she wrote on her bedroom floor, Sunday became the youngest artist to win the coveted Grammy for album of the year.
Another crack in the glass ceiling: CNN’s Candy Crowley is taking over the helm as host of “State of the Union,” the Sunday morning political program.
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!• 20-year-old country-pop singer scores with her single White Horse• Beyoncé takes four awards in early results from Los Angeles music winners ceremonyR&B superstar Beyoncé Knowles and country-pop singer Taylor Swift were among the first of this year’s Grammy winners [...]
Ten Baptist workers to appear in Port-au-Prince court after attempting to take youngsters out of countryTen Americans will appear in court today in Port-au-Prince after attempting to take 34 children out of Haiti, saying that they were trying to rescue them.The Baptist aid workers, from the Idaho-based New Life Children’s Refuge, were arrested on Friday [...]
The world’s foremost gathering of business and government leaders wrapped up a five-day meeting Sunday with widespread agreement that a fragile recovery is under way but no consensus on what’s going to spur job growth and prevent another global econ…
Carole Jahme, the Guardian’s evolutionary agony aunt who writes our weekly ‘Ask Carole column, joins us i…
In a unique experiment in democratic transparency, Barack Obama – a BlackBerry owner, and the first American president to use email while in office – has agreed to copy G2 in on his otherwise highly confidential electronic communications. Each week, we present a selection from recent daysTo: George W Bush Subject: Re: Fantastic performance! Well [...]
China’s tough response on US arms sales to Taiwan reflects the shift in the global balance of powerThe Chinese response to the decision of the United States to sell a $6.3bn arms package to Taiwan represents a small but significant raising of the ante. The Chinese have partially halted the military exchange programme between the two [...]
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – The U.S. military will resume evacuation flights to the United States for critically injured Haitian earthquake victims within the next 12 hours, the White House said on Sunday.
The Caribbean nation should be reimbursed for centuries of punitive treatment and brutality by the outside worldLast week started with a conference in Montreal, called by a group of governments and international agencies calling themselves Friends of Haiti, to discuss the long and short term needs of the recently devastated Caribbean nation. Even as corpses remained [...]