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It was anything but an ordinary Tuesday night (Aug. 27) in Sydney as Darren Hayes was feted with the Excellence in Community Award at the 17th annual Music In The House event. Explore See latest videos, charts and news The ex-Savage Garden singer and songwriter was on hand at the Support Act fundraiser, presented at The Linseed House, The Grounds of Alexandria, where he doubled up with induction into APRA AMCOS’s Billions Club, in recognition of the pop group’s Billboard Hot 100 leader from 1997, “Truly Madly Deeply,” one of their two U.S. No. 1s. Savage Garden, the pairing of…
Published on 26/08/2026 – 7:15 GMT+2 The next tropical storm that develops in the Atlantic this hurricane season will be named Dolly, but the timing is pure coincidence and has no connection to country music star Dolly Parton’s death on Tuesday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Storm systems are named by procedures set by the World Meteorological Organisation and the lists of names are reused every six years. For the Atlantic region, the lists are alphabetical and alternate between male and female names. This season started with Tropical Storm Arthur coming ashore on the US Gulf Coast in June, and Tropical Storm Bertha…
Presidents across party lines celebrated Dolly Parton on Tuesday following her death, speaking to the country icon’s ability to transcend politics through her work that often spoke louder than words. On Tuesday, former Presidents Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and George Bush each paid tribute to Parton, while President Donald Trump ordered that flags be flown at half-staff for the next week to honor “one of the greatest Country singers, and far beyond, EVER.” In their statements, the former presidents praised both Parton’s music and philanthropic endeavors. In 2020, Parton donated $1 million to Vanderbilt University, which helped fund coronavirus research and Moderna’s…
Aug 24, 2026, 10:00 AM ETTHERE WAS SO much that Bianca Andreescu didn’t know when she stunned the world and won the US Open in 2019.She was 19, playing in her first full year on the WTA Tour, and in just the fourth major main draw of her career. Andreescu had won the titles at Indian Wells and the Canadian Open earlier that season, but few expected her to be triumphant in New York. And even fewer believed she could defeat Serena Williams in the final.But she didn’t know that.Editor’s Picks1 RelatedAnd with a 6-3, 7-5 upset victory over one…
The western state of Jalisco will soon boast Mexico’s very first solar panel recycling plant, an installation with the capacity to recover up to 95% of the materials from equipment that reaches the end of its useful life. The project evolved in response to the growth of photovoltaic generation in Jalisco, which has approximately 1.6 million installed solar panels, equivalent to about 50,000 tonnes of equipment. Rafiqui — a non-profit civil organization dedicated to recycling and repurposing — is building the plant in Ciudad Guzmán, about 125 kilometers south of the state capital, Guadalajara. In its initial phase, the recycling…
2026 has been the year of horror, thanks to the breakout success of Obsession, which just grossed over $500 million worldwide, and smaller hits like Scream 7 and Insidious: Out of the Further. One of the biggest horror hits of the year is Backrooms, an A24-distributed tale directed by 20-year-old Kane Parsons and starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve. The film, which adapted Parsons’ YouTube series and was inspired by the Backrooms creepypasta from several years ago, grossed nearly $400 million off of a $10 million budget and intrigued viewers worldwide with its creepy glimpse into another dimension. Now that…
U.S. Capitol Police on Tuesday arrested a man after discovering a guillotine in the bed of a pickup truck parked on the eastern edge of the National Mall. Officers first spotted an illegally parked pickup truck along the 100 block of East Capitol St. —near the Capitol building, the Supreme Court and the Library of…
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Before she became a country music icon, Dolly Parton belonged to Tennessee.Her rise to fame started, of course, with her music: an album cover featuring the view from an eastern Tennessee porch, songs about the humble lessons of her impoverished childhood, the performances at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville.But even as her star power took her all over the world, she made a point to keep coming home in different ways. She donated millions of dollars to disaster relief after devastating fires in East Tennessee and crucial vaccine research at Vanderbilt University. She built the sprawling amusement park Dollywood…
Sabrina Carpenter has always cited Dolly Parton as a major influence, sharing how much the country legend’s sound and style shaped her own career. When she released the deluxe version of her album Short n’ Sweet, fans were thrilled to see that a reworked version of her song “Please Please Please” featured the hero who had inspired her so much. On Tuesday, Carpenter mourned the loss of Parton, who died at the age of 80, and revisited the memories they made while working on “Please Please Please.” She shared several pictures from the set of the Thelma & Louise-themed music…