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Ed Sheeran has been named the biggest-selling global artist of 2017.The 27-year-old singer/songwriter has been awarded The IFPI Global Recording Artist of the Year Award, after beating the likes of Drake, Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar and Bruno Mars to the title, all thanks to his record-breaking LP 'Divide'.
A huge new upside-down house opened to the public in the Russian city of Ufa on Friday. Called the 'Flip-Flop House,' it is the biggest upside-down attraction in Russia and allegedly the biggest in the world. Visitors to the Flip-Flop House get a chance to see life from a totally different vantage point. The Flip-Flop House offers two stories and over 3,000 square feet of exploration for more than 50 people at a time. Every single item has been carefully made to fit into the upside-down world.
Britain will gradually boost its defence spending to 2.5 percent of GDP by 2030, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announces during a visit to Poland. "Over the next six years, we'll invest an additional 75 billion pounds in our defence," Sunak says alongside Jens Stoltenberg, NATO chief. SOUNDBITE
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says that Israel's military campaign in Gaza has turned the territory into the world's "greatest open-air graveyard". Borrell's comment comes as he arrives in Brussels for a meeting of EU foreign ministers. SOUNDBITE
Explosions are heard close to Gaza City's biggest hospital al-Shifa. The hospital was hit earlier on Friday by an Israeli strike, the facility's director and Gaza's Hamas government said, with the latter giving a death toll of 13. The Israeli military has denied bombing hospitals. IMAGES TO COMPLETE VIDI34344FA_EN
Thousands gather in Berlin to take part in a "Free Palestine" protest and to call for an end of the conflict in Gaza. The demonstration in Alexanderplatz is Berlin's biggest pro-Palestinian gathering since the start of the latest Israel-Hamas war. IMAGES