English Time with Yves

  Singer Amy Winehouse,the award-winning artist was just 27 years old when she passed away, the same age as Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin. Winehouse   shot to   worldwide fame and  acclaim   following the release of her album Back to Black in 2006, which won five Grammy awards and became the third-highest selling album of the 2000s. She had spent years  battling  alcohol and drug addiction. This and other demons in her personal life affected her ability to perform live and she was booed offstage for appearing too drunk to perform in 2011. She sang about her addictions and  attempts   to beat them in her smash hit Rehab, an example of her gritty and honest songwriting. Tributes from across the world following her death show what a  unique  talent she was and how much she will be missed. The BBC said: “With her gravelly voice and  eclectic  style, Amy Winehouse…won comparison with some of the great...

  Airports will soon add a new layer to their security procedures. Several airports in Europe will start giving lie detector tests to passengers. Special lie detector machines will use artificial intelligence to test travellers. The lie detector machines are backed by a European Union project called i-BorderControl. The first machines will be at border checkpoints in Hungary, Greece and Latvia. Airports in these countries will carry out trials on the lie detector machines this month. Travellers from outside the European Union will have to take the test. They will look into a webcam and answer questions from a computer-animated immigration official. The computer-generated animation will change to match the race and language of the traveller. A European Union spokesperson said the virtual border guard will scan passengers' faces and analyze their micro-expressions. They will use these expressions to find out if the passenger might be lying. A human security guard will take over if ...

  Watch from 1min10sec:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-4FP5WmHPw Saudi Arabia’s habit for using icons of western popular culture to enhance its stature and  sway on the global stage could soon rise by another nine figures. The kingdom is reportedly willing to pay Argentinian maestro Lionel Messi $400 million-a-year for the twilight of his career. While a huge sum , even by football’s bloated standards, it’s just the latest in a string of moves by the petrostate ’s rulers, who are plowing billions into sports, art and music. Saudi Arabia hopes the spending, powered by excess revenue from its role as the world’s biggest crude exporter, will excite its burgeoning younger generation and supercharge its tourism industry. Critics say the efforts are aimed at varnishing an international image battered by a brutal war in Yemen and murder of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. Overseeing this   soft power play is Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salma...