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Watch Zara Larsson do impressions of Adele, Kanye West and others

Sweden's pop star Zara Larsson has revealed she is truly a 90s kid in a video where she imitates artists such as Rihanna and Adele, but fails to recognize an Abba legend.

Published: 17 February 2017 12:08 CET
Watch Zara Larsson do impressions of Adele, Kanye West and others
Zara Larsson. Photo: Jessica Gow/TT

Swedish-Norwegian talk show Skavlan published the clip of 19-year-old Larsson reacting to and doing impressions of some of the previous guests on the popular programme.

In the video, she sings Adele's 'Hello' in the style of Adele herself, Bruno Mars' 'Just The Way You Are', Rihanna's 'What's My Name' and tries to speak Norwegian like the character Noora in hit series 'Skam'.

Larsson, who is set to release her next album 'So Good' in March, also imitates Norwegian 14-year-old twins Marcus & Martinus, Kanye West, Swedish Eurovision star Carola, Norwegian DJ Kygo and Swedish criminologist Leif GW Persson.

But she is left nonplussed when shown pictures of British singer Bryan Ferry (“is he a singer?”), Simon and Garfunkel legend Paul Simon and even Swedish Abba star Agnetha Fältskog (“all the old people, man, I don't know”).

Born in Stockholm, Larsson had her first breakthrough singing 'My Heart Will Go On' on a Swedish talent show in 2008. Her first biggest international hit was 'Lush Life'.

She does a couple of other impressions in the video as well. We will leave it up to you to decide what you think about them. Watch the video below:

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Norway Uni pulls coronavirus message citing ‘poorly developed’ US health system

One of Norway's leading universities has been forced to change a message warning overseas students of the US's "poorly developed health services", after it was dragged into a storm of criticism on social media.

Published: 17 March 2020 09:24 CET
Norway Uni pulls coronavirus message citing 'poorly developed' US health system
Norwegian University of Science and Technology is one of Norway's leading universities. Photo: NTNU
Over the weekend, the Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology posted a message on its Facebook page for its students on international postings,  advising them to heed the latest advice from Norway's foreign ministry on the coronavirus pandemic, and return back to Norway. 
 
“This applies especially,” the message said, “if you are staying in a country with poorly developed health services and infrastructure and/or collective infrastructure, for example the USA.” 
 
But on Monday, after a storm of social media criticism, the message was changed, stripping out all mention of the US. 
 
Anne Dahl, communications advisor for the university's rector, told state broadcaster NRK that the university had decided to change the post because the furore was distracting people from the serious underlying message. 
 
“We do not want the expression of a single phrase to overshadow important information, so the specific wording about the US was removed,” she wrote in an email. 
 
The original wording was quickly picked up by Twitter commentators in the US. 
 

It then got viral news coverage, with both conservative outlets like Fox News, and left-of-centre newspapers like the UK's Independent picking up the story. 
 
Several people flocked to the original post to attack the university in the comments. 
 
 
 
 
The post was then changed on Monday to remove all reference to the US. 
 
 
 
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