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Nov32020 by adminNo Comments

Listen: GFriend shares ‘Walpurgis Night’ highlight medley

Nov. 3 (UPI) -- South Korean girl group GFriend is gearing up to release its new album. The K-pop stars shared a highlight medley Tuesday for its forthcoming third Korean studio album, Walpurgis Night. Advertisement The video features clips of the title track, "Mago," and 10 other songs: "Love Spell," "Three of Cups," "GRWM," "Secret Diary," "Better Me," "Night Drive," "Apple," "Crossroads," "Labyrinth" and "Back to the Start." "Apple" previously appeared on GFriend's EP Song of the Sirens, released in July, while "Crossroads" and "Labyrinth" appeared on the group's EP Labyrinth, released in February. GFriend will release Walpurgis Night and the "Mago" music video Nov. 9. The group shared concept photos for Walpurgis Night last week that shows the members wearing colorful outfits and sitt...

Oct172020 by adminNo Comments

Banksy shares photo of new bike tyre hula-hoop street art

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Banksy appears to have confirmed being behind a new artwork that has appeared on a wall in Nottingham, depicting a young girl using a bike tyre as a hula-hoop.Residents in the area of Lenton had been speculating about the design, which appeared on the side of the AVI hair and beauty salon there earlier this week. An actual bike, minus one wheel, is locked to a post in front of the graffiti. On Saturday, the mysterious street artist posted two pictures of the mural on the official Banksy Instagram account. A photograph also appeared on the Banksy website.Crowds have reportedly been gathering at the site in recent days, according to the Nottingham Post.Responding to the photographs, which have been left uncaptioned, on Instagram, one user said: "Well that Beauty Salon just went up a few mill...

Oct122020 by adminNo Comments

Listen: Seventeen shares ‘; [semicolon]’ highlight medley

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Oct. 12 (UPI) -- South Korean boy band Seventeen is gearing up to release its new EP. The K-pop group shared a highlight medley Monday for its special album ; [semicolon]. Advertisement The video features clips of the title track, "Home;Run," and five other songs: "Do Re Mi," "Hey Buddy," "Light a Flame," "Ah! Love" and "All My Love." It also includes retro-themed teaser photos. Seventeen had shared a tracklist for ; [semicolon] on Sunday. Seventeen previously shared a retro-themed teaser video, titled "The Invitation for Youth."[embedded content] Seventeen will release ; [semicolon] on Oct. 19. The album is the group's first Korean release since the EP Heng:garae, released in June. Seventeen consists of S.Coups, Jeonghan, Joshua, Jun, Hoshi, Wonwoo, Woozi, DK, Mingyu, The8, Seungkwan, V...

Oct72020 by adminNo Comments

Listen: Pentagon shares ‘We:th’ highlight medley

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Oct. 7 (UPI) -- South Korean boy band Pentagon is gearing up to release its new EP. The K-pop group shared an "audio snippet" of the mini album, titled We:th, on Wednesday. Advertisement The highlight medley features clips of the EP's six songs: "Daisy," "Beautiful Goodbye," "That Year, That Month, That Day," "You Like" "Paradise (This Night Where Stars Shine)" and "I'm Here," a solo by Jinho that appears on the CD version only. We:th is Pentagon's first release without Jinho, who is completing his mandatory military service, but does feature YanAn, who was on hiatus. Pentagon shared new concept photos for the album Tuesday. The group photo shows the members of Pentagon wearing coordinating red and black outfits. Pentagon shared a comeback trailer, titled "Keep Us by Your Side," for the ...

Sep212020 by adminNo Comments

Coronavirus: Lockdown fears send shares reeling

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Leading shares across Europe have fallen sharply in morning trading amid fears that a renewed rise in coronavirus cases will blight economic prospects.In London, the benchmark FTSE 100 share index was down more than 3%, with airlines, travel firms, hotel groups and pubs leading the rout.Worst hit was British Airways owner IAG, which slumped more than 12%.Similar falls were seen on markets in Paris, Frankfurt and Madrid.Banking shares were affected by an extra set of concerns as allegations of money-laundering surfaced in leaked secret files.HSBC, the bank at the centre of the scandal, saw its share price fall more than 5% in London, but the revelations dragged down the entire sector, with Barclays, Lloyds and NatWest all dropping about 6%.The downward tre...