Saturday, 25 August 2018

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Ariana Grande and Aretha Franklin dominate music charts

Ariana Grande has topped the UK album chart in a week that saw three Aretha Franklin albums re-enter the Top 40.
Grande said she was "so grateful" to score her second UK number one album with Sweetener, which sold 45,000 copies in its first week on release.
Meanwhile, Franklin's death saw a surge of interest in her back catalogue.
Respect and I Say A Little Prayer were streamed more than a million times each this week, data collated by the Official Charts Company revealed.
Grande last topped the albums chart with Dangerous Woman, which spent one week in the top spot in 2016.
"Thank you so much! I'm so grateful! I can't tell you how appreciative I am," said the 25-year-old about her latest chart coup.
Top five albums
1) Ariana GrandeSweetener
2) Original Cast RecordingMamma Mia! Here We Go Again
3) Original Cast RecordingThe Greatest Showman
4) George EzraStaying At Tamara's
5) DrakeScorpion
Sweetener's success brought an end to the Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again soundtrack's four-week chart-topping reign.
It is one of four entries in this week's Top 10, which also sees debuts for Bugzy Malone, Gabrielle and Slaves at six, seven and eight respectively.
Franklin's death at the age of 76 is reflected by the presence of her Soul Queen album at 15 and her 30 Greatest Hits compilation at 16.
Another compilation, Respect - The Very Best of Aretha Franklin, can be found in 27th place.
Top five singles
1) George EzraShotgun
2) DrakeIn My Feelings
3) Benny Blanco, Halsey & KhalidEastside
4) Calvin Harris & Sam SmithPromises
5) Loud Luxury ft BrandoBody
In the singles chart, George Ezra's Shotgun remains number one for a fourth straight week.
Drake's In My Feelings is another non-mover at two, while Eastside by Benny Blanco, Halsey and Khalid rises one place to two.
Calvin Harris and Sam Smith's Promises was the most downloaded track of the last seven days, enough to make it this week's highest new entry at four.
Grande has three songs in this week's Top 40: God is a Woman at six, Breathin at eight and Sweetener's title track at 22.
All are higher placed than the highest charting Aretha track, I Say A Little Prayer, which sits just outside the Top 50 at 51.
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KSI vs Logan Paul: YouTube heavyweights ready for boxing showdown

KSI and Logan Paul, YouTube stars with 37 million subscribers between them, will take their beef into the boxing ring on Saturday for a fight billed as "the biggest event in internet history".
KSI or Logan Paul?
YouTube fans around the world have chosen whose side they are on, and will be watching when the pair of social media heavyweights step into the ring at Manchester Arena.
Both are wildly popular, both are massively divisive, both have highly controversial pasts.

Who are KSI and Logan Paul?


KSI is the brash 25-year-old British gamer, comedy vlogger and rapper whose videos have racked up 4.4 billion views despite heavy criticism for lewd comments towards women in some of his clips.
Logan Paul is the 23-year-old US prankster (and former state wrestler) who made his name on Vine before moving to YouTube, where he's had 3.9 billion views, and who caused outrage earlier this year for showing the body of an apparent suicide victim in Japan.
Both have cultivated a frenzied online feud in order to hype up this bout, which will be streamed pay-per-view on YouTube.
Their brothers Jake Paul (4.9 billion views) and Deji (3.3 billion) will fight on the undercard.

A chance for redemption? What KSI and Logan say


Both seem to have largely shrugged off their controversies, but the fight will be seen by some as a way to prop up, and cash in on, their careers.
Asked by BBC News whether he's hoping to redeem himself, Logan says: "I don't think this is the redemption. I think it may mark a part of it, but by no means is this fight a redemption for my mistake that happened in January.
"But I think it is an opportunity to for me to have taken a step back from the internet and focus my efforts elsewhere, and it's an opportunity for me to show the world a new version of Logan Paul, not just silly internet vlog boy."
KSI, when asked whether he has regrets about his past behaviour, tells BBC News: "I definitely have regrets for some of the things I've said and done, but you know, I'm a human being and human beings make mistakes.
"Because it's me, it's showcased all over the internet, but that's just how it is."

What the fans are saying

Social media can be a combative place, so perhaps it's logical for social superstars to take their hostility a into the real world.
At one of KSI's training sessions in Manchester before the fight, fan Shaf Miah, 25, from London, says the white-collar amateur bout is "the next level of internet beef".
He says: "If you read comments [on YouTube], people want to physically hit someone if they don't like them or if they've done something annoying. And to see their favourite YouTuber do it for them, they're obviously going to pay money to watch it."
Michael Zepeda, 21, has come from LA for the fight. "They've both got a lot of subscribers, they both get a lot of views," he says. "Everybody wants to watch.
"I want to see Logan get his ass beat. He deserves it. He's done many messed up things for views. He crossed that line, definitely."
CJ Melia, 21, has travelled to Manchester from Dublin. "I cannot wait," he says. "I'm so excited for this. I've been watching KSI for about nine years. He's the reason I started my first YouTube channel eight years ago.
"I never thought something like this would happen. This is the biggest event YouTube has ever done."

How the bout came about

This all started when two other YouTubers - Joe Weller and Theo Baker, AKA Malfoy - went into the ring last year, and KSI said he would fight the winner.
KSI took on Weller at the Copper Box Arena in London in February, and won. That was streamed live on YouTube for free, with 1.8 million people watching live and 36 million more watching on the pair's official channels since.
Weller has five million subscribers to Logan Paul's 18 million. Saturday's fight will be much bigger - but this time, punters have to pay £7.50 to watch.

The biggest event in internet history?

Really?
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge might have something to say about that. Their 2011 wedding holds the Guinness World Record for the most live streams for a single event, at 72 million - although that obviously wasn't a product of the online world, as this fight is.
YouTuber Jordan Antle, who goes by the name TheFearRaiser, says the fight's billing is not over the top. "This is a massive event and I would definitely say this is going to be one of the biggest internet events so far in history," he tells BBC News.
"Seeing two YouTubers who have a large fanbase fighting each other live in front of millions of people in unheard of. It's a very strange combination of two worlds and it's attracting a lot of attention because of how different it is."
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Amazon warehouse staff defend retailer on Twitter

A small group of American Amazon employees is being paid to defend and promote the company on Twitter.
A total of 16 accounts have been found on Twitter, written by staff who have worked at the retailer's warehouses.
Called "FC ambassadors", the workers have most often responded to tweets critical of Amazon's working practices.
Amazon said the accounts were run by real people, not software bots created to automatically respond to unfavourable views.

Labour relations

"The most important thing is that they've been here long enough to honestly share the facts based on personal experience," said an Amazon spokesman.
"It's important that we do a good job of educating people about the actual environment inside our fulfilment centres, and the FC ambassador program is a big part of that," he added.
The BBC understands that workers who become FC ambassadors swap a job picking and packing orders for one that involves being a tour guide and online advocate. The role also involves some managerial duties.
The accounts have been created in the last few weeks and are most vocal when other people on Twitter criticise Amazon and the way it treats its employees.
Writing on TechCrunch, Devin Coldewey said the "ceaselessly upbeat" messages seemed to stem from a desire to improve public perceptions about working for Amazon.
"It's no secret, after all, that Amazon has an image problem when it comes to labour," he wrote.
In July, Amazon warehouse staff in Germany, Spain and Poland staged a strike in a bid to improve their working conditions. In the UK, it has been sued by unions in a bid to improve wages and rewards for delivery staff. The retailer has also been criticised regularly over conditions in its warehouses.
The messages most often respond to comments about the monotony of warehouse work, pay and conditions, management relations and bathroom breaks.
Mr Coldewey questioned how free the ambassadors were to express their own opinions, given that many of the messages shared similar syntax and punctuation.
"These accounts are equally certainly not the grassroots advocacy they seem to be," he wrote.
Soon after news of the existence of the group became widely known, many people added the title of "FC ambassador" to their Twitter bio. Many wrote tweets parodying and mocking the tone of the messages sent by the Amazon staff.
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Woman sues US border agents over seized iPhone

An American woman who had her phone seized by border agents as she returned home to the United States is suing the country's border protection agency.
Rejhane Lazoja was stopped at Newark airport, New Jersey, after returning from a trip to Switzerland in February.
Her iPhone was seized by agents after she refused to unlock it for them.
The lawsuit alleges that border agents took a copy of the data on her smartphone and failed to say whether it had been deleted.
According to legal documents, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) kept the phone for more than 120 days before returning it to Ms Lazoja.
She alleges the agency failed to confirm whether it had taken a copy of her data, and whether that data had been shared with any other agencies.
The smartphone contained photographs of Ms Lazoja "in a state of undress", as well as private messages from her lawyer.
"Ms Lazoja is a Muslim woman and wears a hijab (a headscarf) in accordance with her religious beliefs. Pursuant to her sincerely held beliefs, Ms Lazoja cannot be seen in a state of undress by men who are not family members," the documents state.
"Neither was there probable cause, nor a warrant [to search the phone]. Therefore, the search and seizure of Ms Lazoja's property violated her rights under the Fourth Amendment," the filing says.
The case will be heard in a New Jersey US district court.
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North Korea visit: Trump calls off Pompeo's trip

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will not be travelling to North Korea in the immediate future after Donald Trump asked him to call off a planned trip.
The president tweeted that insufficient progress was being made in dismantling Pyongyang's nuclear programme.
He also suggested China was not doing enough to put pressure on North Korea - due to trade tensions with the US.
After his summit with the North Korean leader in June, Mr Trump said the country was no longer a nuclear threat.
But since then there have been several reports that it is failing to dismantle nuclear facilities.
The UN's nuclear agency (IAEA) has also said North Korea is continuing with its nuclear programme.

What is Mr Trump's latest line?

Mr Pompeo was due to head to Pyongyang next week with his newly appointed special envoy for North Korea - Stephen Biegun, a retiring Ford executive.
It would have been the secretary of state's fourth trip, though he was not expected to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
Mr Trump took a swipe at China in the second of three tweets on the issue.
China and the US are embroiled in a tit-for-tat tariff war after Mr Trump complained about the size of the US trade deficit with China and what Washington sees as other unfair trade practices.
However, only two days ago Mr Trump said China had been a "big help on North Korea".
Mr Pompeo might still make another trip though.

How much of a shift is this?

"There is no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea," Mr Trump tweeted on arriving back in the US from the June summit with Mr Kim in Singapore.
"Everybody can feel much safer," he said.
After the optimism of Singapore, the latest development might seem like quite a change.
But there have been ups and downs in the Trump-North Korea relationship since then.
After a visit by Mr Pompeo in July, North Korea condemned his "gangster-like demands", only for another trip to be announced, albeit now cancelled.
And the summit itself was called off in May - Mr Trump citing Pyongyang's "open hostility" - only for it to take place after all.
The US has made clear that it wants to see an end to the North's nuclear activities before it will consider lifting economic sanctions.
The summit was seen as possible turning point after a ratcheting up of tensions.
North Korea had carried out a sixth nuclear bomb test in September and boasted of its ability to launch a missile at the United States.
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