A US court has ordered Katy Perry to pay a Christian rapper $550,000, roughly £454,000, of her own earnings from her 2013 song Dark Horse. That amount is a part of the $2.7m (£2.2m) awarded to the Christian rapper, Flame, who has successfully sued the star for copying one of his songs. Capitol Records, which…
A new analysis from the Met Office claims that the top 10 warmest years on record in the UK have all occurred in the last 17 years. Its State of the UK Climate report shows that 2014 remains the warmest year in a temperature sequence now dating back to 1884. Despite last summer’s blistering heat,…
A US court has ruled that Katy Perry copied a song and used it in her own 2013 song, Dark Horse. Katy gave evidence in the week long trial, denying she had ever even heard the 2009 song Joyful Noise by Flame before recording her track. She even offered to perform Dark Horse for the…
A group of MPs, from different parties, went on a trip to Canada, and upon their arrival back to the UK they say they think the UK will fully legalise cannabis use within five to ten years. Canada became the first G7 country to allow recreational use of the drug in 2018. Of the three…
Outbreaks of measles keep continuing to pop up around Europe. Because of this, Germany has passed a new law making vaccinations compulsory for children. The Measles Protection Act, which was adopted on July 17, 2019, will come into force on March 1, 2020. Parents will have to prove that their children have been vaccinated before…
The stepfather of murdered schoolgirl Lucy McHugh has been attacked in Southampton. 22 year old Richard Elmes needed hospital treatment after he was assaulted in Southampton just two days after the teenager’s killer was jailed. Thirteen-year-old Lucy, the daughter of Mr Elmes’s partner, Stacey White, was stabbed to death by the family’s lodger last July….