Ariana Grande, Lady Gaga land top honors at MTV’s Video Music Awards

September 8, 2025 10:42 AM

Ariana Grande, Lady Gaga land top honors at MTV’s Video Music Awards

Pop singer Ariana Grande claimed the top prize at the MTV Video Music Awards, and Lady Gaga and Sabrina Carpenter scored major honors, at a star-studded celebration of fan favorites in New York on Sunday. Grande won video of the year for "Brighter Days Ahead," earning her the biggest award of the night at the fan-voted awards. "Art has been a safe space for me since I was a kid. I'm so grateful I get to do this," Grande said as she held the MTV Moon Person trophy on stage at the UBS Arena. Mi...

Olympics-Games’ opening ceremony starts under watchful eye of security forces

September 16, 2024 5:07 PM

Olympics-Games’ opening ceremony starts under watchful eye of security forces

The Olympics' opening ceremony began in Paris on Friday by depicting a fictional scenario in which the arrival of theOlympic flame goes awry, ahead of an extravagant show on the river Seine that will kick off the summer Games. French soccer superstar Zinedine Zidane was shown running across Paris to bring the flame, in a pre-recorded video that included him taking it onto the metro. A huge police force was on display in Paris, just hours after a sabotage attack on the high-speed TGV rail netwo...