Kanye West Crowns Billboard 200 & Post Malone Moves to No. 1 on Hot 100

Kanye West's Ye launches at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated June 16), marking his record-tying eighth consecutive leader and sparking his first week at No. 1 on the Billboard Artist 100 chart.

Plus, Post Malone notches his second No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with "Psycho," featuring Ty Dolla $ign, who earns his first.

1. As West's Ye rules the Billboard 200, all seven songs from the set debut in the Hot 100's top 40. Click here for the rundown.

2. From The Beatles to JAY-Z to Bruce Springsteen and more, West ranks among the acts with the most No. 1 albums in the Billboard 200's history. Click here for a look at the all-time leaders.



3. The soundtrack to The Greatest Showman becomes 2018's first million-selling album in U.S., according to Nielsen Music. Click here for this week's Billboard 200 Chart Moves.

medical marijuana can save lives - isn't it time to make it legal?

In a ward at London’s Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Billy Caldwell’s life hangs in the balance. Billy is 12 years old, autistic and severely epileptic. His illness has become a life-and-death stand-off between Charlotte Caldwell, his mother, and the Home Office: last Monday, she flew into Heathrow from Canada with supply of cannabis oil in her bag which was confiscated at customs. Caldwell insists it is the only treatment that has ever brought her son’s frightening condition under control and without it he will surely die.

Billy was rushed into hospital in the early hours of Saturday morning after suffering a severe fit following the withdrawal of his medicine. "It is beyond cruelty.



Colorado Politics comments on the study and it’s amazing findings. Researchers found that in the nine states where medical cannabis is legal, painkiller prescriptions, anti-anxiety medication and antidepressant use dropped remarkably. Anti-nausea medication prescriptions fell by 17%, anti depressants by 13% and anti- seizure and psychosis medicines dropped by 12%

Bizarre moment it rains OCTOPUS as freakish storm sucks creatures out of sea

Drivers were left stunned as octopuses and starfish began raining down onto their cars during a freakish storm.

The creatures - along with mollusks and shellfish - were sucked out of the sea and dumped along with heavy rain and hail.

Photos posted on social media show the marine life stuck to car windscreens after violent weather battered the Chinese coastal city of Qingdao.

The phrase "seafood rain" became a trending topic online as the photos went viral in the aftermath of a storm that left a trail of destruction.

Eid truce between Afghan army and Taliban marred by deadly blast

A blast at a ceasefire meeting of Taliban fighters in the country's east has killed up to 20 even as the war-weary country celebrated an unprecedented holiday truce in the long-running conflict.

The explosion hit a meeting in Nangarhar province as fighters met to mark the Taliban's three-day ceasefire to mark the religious festival of Eid al-Fitr.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the explosion. At least one hardline Taliban splinter faction had previously said it would not abide by the truce, while the area is also known as a stronghold of the Islamic State group.


Ghulam Sanayee Stanikzai, provincial police chief, said the attack in Rodat district came as dozens of fighters had gathered to celebrate the truce and most of the dead were Taliban.

Russian conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky dies at 87

Prominent Russian conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky has died aged 87.

Born in Moscow into a well-known musical family, Rozhdestvensky made his debut by conducting a Tchaikovsky ballet at the Bolshoi, aged just 20.

He made his name by popularising music by composers who were all but banned by the Communist authorities in the USSR, including Poulenc and Hindemith.

The cause of death was not immediately known, but local media reports say he had heart problems.

In 1971, Rozhdestvensky brought his Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra to London to the BBC Proms.

Uruguay win it in the 89th #worldcuprussia

Heartbreak for Egypt 

Uruguay win it in the 89th minute with a stunning header from Gimenez!

"Egypt were hard done by - they really contributed to that game" -

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The 2018 FIFA World Cup officially kicked off

The 2018 FIFA World Cup officially kicked off on Thursday with host nation Russia beating Saudi Arabiafive goals to none.

The first World Cup on Russian soil will be played in 12 stadiums located across 11 cities. 

With a maximum capacity of 80,000 spectators, the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow was the site of the opening ceremony and will also be the grounds for the final game, scheduled for July 15.