Katy Perry leads nominations for MTV European Music Awards

Popstar Katy Perry will be competing for the most prizes at this year's MTV European Music Awards receiving seven nominations.

Katy Perry will hope to take home the best song prize for 'Dark Horse'

Ariana Grande follows closely behind with six nominations after a very successful year.

Calvin Harris and One Direction will also go head to head for the best UK and Ireland artist prize.

The winners will be announced at a big show taking place in Glasgow on 9 November.

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Katy and Arianna are both in the running for best pop and best female artist alongside Nicki Minaj, Taylor Swift and Beyonce.

Other artists nominated for awards include Miley Cyrus, Pharrell Williams and Sam Smith.

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One Direction announce new single Steal My Girl

One Direction news has come thick and fast in the past seven days.

First, they announced their fourth album, yes they called it Four, then the boys released Fireproof as a free download and now they've named the lead single from their new album.

Steal My Girl, which Louis "absolutely cannot wait for you guys to hear" will have its first play on 29 September.

It will be officially released to buy on 12 October and the boys hope it will become their fourth UK number 1 single.

One Direction were recently given a Guinness World Record for the first UK band to debut at number one with three albums in the US

One Direction have reached the top of the UK charts already with One Way Or Another, Little Things and their 2011 debut What Makes You Beautiful.

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'Silly walks' Buckingham Palace Guardsman under investigation

A British soldier is being investigated for apparently breaching military discipline by trying to entertain tourists while on guard duty outside Buckingham Palace.

A video posted on YouTube shows the Grenadier Guardsman, in full ceremonial uniform, pirouetting and marching in a comical fashion.

A military spokesman said any soldier falling short of the army's high standards could expect to face appropriate action.

Andy Richards, who was at the palace with his children, filmed the Guardsman in action. He told the BBC he "seemed to be not doing what he should... he was obviously playing a bit to the crowd."

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'Alien mushroom creatures' found

Finding a new species is always cause for excitement in the scientific community. And nowadays researchers find themselves having to go into ever more unreachable and hostile environments to find new life. 

deep sea mushroom animals discovered off Australia, which have defied classification.(Public Library of Science) 

So you can imagine the excitement when they dredged the ocean depths off Australia and discovered not only a new species, but something totally unrelated to anything else alive today.

Meet the Dendrogramma. These mushroom-shaped creatures consist mainly of an outer skin and inner stomach, separated by a dense layer of jelly-like material.

Scientists suspect they are related to ancient extinct life forms that lived 600 million years ago. Excitingly, we may be looking at a failed early attempt at multicellular life.

Two species of Dendrogramma have been identified: Dendrogramma enigmatica and Dendrogramma discoides.

They were discovered among a collection of organisms dredged up way back in 1986. The sample came from depths of 400 and 1,000 metres (1,312 and 3,280 feet) on the south-east Australian continental slope.

A new attempt may now be made to find other specimens of the mushroom-like organisms.

From: http://www.independent.ie/world-news/and-finally/alien-mushroom-creatures-found-30560109.html