Relaxnews Spotify CEO Daniel Ek, took to Twitter to announce that the world’s leading music streaming site has topped 40 million paid subscribers — a new record. Spotify now counts more than twice as many paid users as its main rival, Apple Music, which has already signed up 17 million subscribers in just over a year. This new record …

  AFP On bakery walls, buildings and roadside sheeting in South Sudan’s capital, Juba, street artists fed up with war are painting for peace as young musicians, actors and artists campaign to end decades of conflict. A mural of a child in a singlet working at a sewing machine reads “the young who are tired are the ones who will …

  DPA Martin Heimeier decided to leave the hole in the roof as it was, though it has been capped with some concrete. The cover over the 3.5-metre-wide gap gouged by the bomb — more about that later — has been painted gold and has a spotlight so that Heimeier’s tenants can light up the ceiling recess whenever they want. …