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2025 Grammy Awards nominations: Beyoncé leads list of music contenders – National
9Nov By Aditi PawarNo Comments
Entertainment, Movies

2025 Grammy Awards nominations: Beyoncé leads list of music contenders – National

Welcome to Beyoncé country. When it comes to the 2025 Grammy Award nominations, Cowboy Carter rules them all. She leads the nods with 11, bringing her career total to 99 nominations. That makes her the most nominated artist in Grammy history. Cowboy Carter is up for album and country album of the year, and Texas Hold ’Em is nominated for record, song and country song of the year. She also received nominations in a wide swath of genres, including pop, country, Americana and melodic rap performance categories.This is her first time receiving nominations in the country and Americana categories. Previously, she and her husband Jay-Z were tied for most career nominations, at 88.If Beyoncé wins the album of the year, she’ll become the first Black woman to do so in the 21st century. Lauryn Hill l...
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At least 24 killed in Pakistan train station bomb blast, police say
9Nov By No Comments
World News

At least 24 killed in Pakistan train station bomb blast, police say

Security personnel inspect wreckage after an explosion at a railway station in Quetta, in Pakistan's Balochistan province. Photo: BANARAS KHAN / AFP At least 24 people have been killed and more than 40 injured in a bomb blast at a railway station in Quetta in southwestern Pakistan, officials say. Pakistan is grappling with a surge in strikes by separatist ethnic militants in Balochistan province in the south and Islamist militants in its northwest. A decades-old insurgency has destabilised Balochistan and created security concerns for projects trying to access the province's untapped resources. Inspector general of police for Balochistan, Mouzzam Jah Ansari, said 24 people have died so far on Saturday from the blast at the railway station, which is usually busy early in the day. "The ta...
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Pakistan: At least 20 killed in train station bomb blast | World News
9Nov By Aditi PawarNo Comments
Business

Pakistan: At least 20 killed in train station bomb blast | World News

At least 20 people have been killed and more than 40 injured in a bomb blast at a train station in Pakistan. The bomb exploded in the southwestern city of Quetta when nearly 100 passengers were waiting for a train to travel to Rawalpindi. The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), a separatist group, have claimed responsibility for the attack, saying in a statement that a suicide bomber targeted troops at the railway station.Government spokesman Shahid Rind said the bombing seemed to have been a suicide attack but an investigation was still ongoing to confirm the BLA's claim.Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said those who orchestrated the attack "will pay a very heavy price for it," adding that security forces were determined to eliminate "the menace of terrorism".TV footage showed the steel stru...
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Police to use life-size hologram of murdered sex worker Bernadett Szabo to try to solve cold case | World News
9Nov By Aditi PawarNo Comments
Business

Police to use life-size hologram of murdered sex worker Bernadett Szabo to try to solve cold case | World News

Police in Amsterdam are set to use a life-size hologram of a murdered sex worker to try to catch her killer 15 years after her death.The visualisation will show Bernadett "Betty" Szabo, who was stabbed multiple times on 19 February 2009, sitting on a stool behind a window as she reaches out to passersby for help. Police have said the 19-year-old had given birth three months before she was "brutally murdered in her workspace".Amsterdam police said they launched a "major investigation" after her body was discovered, with officers reviewing CCTV footage and speaking to witnesses.However, the case went cold after detectives were unable to solve it. The force has since reviewed the case and said they will make a "final attempt to find the perpetrator".Officers believe someone must have informat...
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Best London hotels under £300 a night: from The Laslett to Mama Shelter
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Life Style

Best London hotels under £300 a night: from The Laslett to Mama Shelter

Understated and unbelievably stylish for its rates, the Pilgrim sits opposite Paddington station, where the tube zooms into central London, trains chug commuters in from all over, and the Heathrow Express zips passengers to the airport in 15 minutes. It’s winning in the convenience stakes, but surprisingly also in design. The building’s Victorian character has been keenly preserved amid a colossal revamp, and most of it, from the modish furniture to the elegant parquet floor, has been upcycled. And scattered across its cavernous spaces and light-filled room is a smattering of ever-changing art, deftly curated for the cool crowd that descends on this hip, community-focused hub. Source link
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Indonesia’s Mount Lewotobi erupts again, government to widen restricted zone
9Nov By No Comments
World News

Indonesia’s Mount Lewotobi erupts again, government to widen restricted zone

Residents of Eputobi village watch the eruption of Mount Lewotobi on 8 November. Photo: BAYU ISMOYO and ARNOLD WELIANTO / AFP Indonesia's Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki has erupted at least three times on Saturday, spewing an ash column 9km high, as authorities plan to widen the restricted area, officials say. A big eruption on 3 November by the volcano in East Nusa Tenggara province killed nine. Since then, authorities have been scrambling to evacuate 16,000 people from villages nearest the crater as eruptions continue. "The eruption accompanied by the ejection of hot lava and hot clouds to the west and northwest of Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki is still occurring," said Muhammad Wafid, head of the volcanology agency. The agency plans to expand to 9 km from 8 km the zone southwest to northwest of...
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Met Police marksman who shot Jean Charles de Menezes after 7/7 London bombings speaks for first time | UK News
9Nov By Aditi PawarNo Comments
Business

Met Police marksman who shot Jean Charles de Menezes after 7/7 London bombings speaks for first time | UK News

A police officer who shot an innocent man he suspected was a terrorist in the wake of the 7/7 London bombings has spoken about the killing for the first time.Jean Charles de Menezes, a 27-year-old electrician, was killed a fortnight after suicide bombers targeted three Tube lines and a London bus on 7 July 2005, killing 52 people. Now one of the firearms officers who shot Mr de Menezes defended his actions, saying he was certain "we were going to die" if he did not act.Mr de Menezes, who was from Brazil, lived in an apartment block that had been linked to one of several suspects who had planned to target the capital's transport network a second time on 21 July.The following day Mr de Menezes was followed by officers and shot seven times by two marksmen in a train carriage at Stockwell Tube...
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Crypto businessman killed in shooting at Brazil’s busiest airport | World News
9Nov By Aditi PawarNo Comments
Business

Crypto businessman killed in shooting at Brazil’s busiest airport | World News

A cryptocurrency businessman has been shot and killed in Brazil's busiest airport in an attack that left three others injured.Antonio Vinicius Lopes Gritzbach was killed by unidentified gunmen in a black car at Sao Paulo's Guarulhos International Airport on Friday. Mr Gritzbach had received death threats from the First Command of the Capital (FCC) - a powerful international criminal group.The businessman had recently entered into a plea bargain with local prosecutors to provide information on his ties to the FCC, police said.Two men who had been wounded in the shooting were taken to a nearby hospital. A woman was also injured. Sao Paulo state's security secretary said in a statement that the murder, and its cause, were still under investigation. Local media have reporte...
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Authorities investigating racist texts sent to dozens of black Americans across the US | US News
9Nov By Aditi PawarNo Comments
Business

Authorities investigating racist texts sent to dozens of black Americans across the US | US News

Dozens of black Americans have received text messages telling them they had been "selected" to pick cotton "at the nearest plantation".The messages invoking slavery were sent to university students from colleges including Ohio State University, Clemson University in South Carolina, the University of Southern California and Missouri State University, according to Sky's US partner network NBC News. But other black men, women and children were recipients of the messages in several other states including New York, Alabama, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Tennessee.The first messages were sent the morning after the US election, with some referencing president-elect Donald Trump.The FBI said in a statement on Thursday that it is aware of the texts and has been in contact with the US Department of Jus...
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RFK Jr reviewing resumes for top Trump health jobs, sources say
9Nov By No Comments
World News

RFK Jr reviewing resumes for top Trump health jobs, sources say

By Stephanie Kelly for Reuters Robert F Kennedy Jr at an election night event for Donald Trump in West Palm Beach, Florida. Photo: JOHN MOORE / Getty Images via AFP Robert F Kennedy Jr, the former independent presidential candidate, is reviewing candidate resumes for the top jobs at the US government's health agencies in Donald Trump's incoming administration, a former Kennedy aide and a source says. Kennedy, of the famed political family, has been asked to recommend appointees for all regulatory health agencies, including the Department of Health and Human Services and the Food and Drug Administration, said Del Bigtree, who was director of communications for Kennedy's campaign and remains close to the former candidate. A source familiar with the matter, who declined to be identified...
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