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.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Country-pop starlet Taylor Swift, whose true-life tales of teen heartbreak and longing struck a chord with young fans worldwide, made music history on Sunday by becoming the youngest artist to win the coveted Grammy for album of the year.

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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters Life!) – A Malaysian company has invented a machine it says will help Muslims purify themselves before prayers without excessively wasting water.

LONDON (Reuters) – Leukemia patients who have blood stem cell transplants survive just as long on average as those who undergo the more invasive procedure of having a bone marrow transplant, scientists said on Monday.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – “Avatar” ventured further into rarefied territory at the worldwide box office during the weekend, surpassing the $2 billion mark days after it broke the record held by “Titanic.”

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – In a historic first, three women will each vie for the top three prizes at the Grammy Awards on Sunday, with Taylor Swift likely to prolong her fairy-tale success story.

The traffic statistics are in for January, the first month of the new, slightly more educational, grown-up version of this blog, and clearly readers are coming along for the ride. The ten most popular posts for the month found readers enthralled by Canadian history, a serious look at improving airline security and an attempt to [...]

OSLO (Reuters) – Nations accounting for most of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions have restated their promises to fight climate change, meeting a Sunday deadline in a low-key endorsement of December’s “Copenhagen Accord.”