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Rihanna injured in electric scooter accident

Entertainment

Rihanna has suffered facial injuries after "flipping over" on an electric scooter, according to reports in the US.It comes after photos emerged of the star with what appeared to be bruising on her face as she sat in a car outside a restaurant in Los Angeles on Friday. Image: Simon Cowell broke his back in an accident on an electric bike last month Entertainment websites People and TMZ reported that Rihanna was involved in an accident on an electric scooter.In a statement to People, the singer's representative said she was "healing quickly"."Rihanna is completely fine now but flipped over on an electric scooter last week and bruised her forehead and face," the star's representative was quoted as saying. ...

Scooter Braun’s family ‘received death threats’ following Taylor Swift feud

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Music manager Scooter Braun says his family received "numerous death threats" after Taylor Swift said he was stopping her from playing her old hits.The star has been vocal in her disapproval of Braun since his company bought her back catalogue in June.She accused him of "incessant bullying", and said he had tried to sabotage an award show appearance.Braun had remained silent on the feud but said threats to his family had forced him to change his mind."I came home tonight to find my wife had received a phone call threatening the safety of our children" he wrote in an open letter to Swift, which appeared on his Instagram account.The 38-year-old also posted a screenshot of a text he'd received saying: "Why don't you just die with yo...

Start-up Bird backs down in electric scooter legal row

Technology

A scooter firm has apologised after issuing a journalist with legal threats over a blogpost about its scooters.Start-up Bird offers electric scooters in around 40 US cities, which are hired via an app.Bird accused Cory Doctorow of copyright infringement for linking to a forum about a device which enables abandoned scooters, bought at auction, to be fitted with a new motherboard.This means they can then be used without the Bird app.Mr Doctorow's blogpost, published on the website Boing Boing, was about the number of Bird scooters that are being abandoned or badly parked, then removed by local authorities and legitimately sold.It described a $ 30 (£23) motherboard which replaces the scooters' existing hardware but does not alter either the hardware or...