Even as Idol prepares to say farewell, its enduring effect on the pop culture landscape – and specifically in country music – will be felt for as long as its alumni continue to succeed.
Their donations have helped to make the SNP's finances the most secure of any major UK political party, as it prepares to spend £1.34m during a 16-week independence campaign starting on 30 May.
Related: Post-election Scotland prepares for an uncertain, exciting future While the undisputed single biggest shift in the new intake is the dramatic increase in Scottish National party MPs at Westminster, equality campaigners are celebrating record numbers of women with almost one in three MPs now female.
As Ange Postecoglou prepares to name his preliminary squad for next month's World Cup, the former Socceroos captain Paul Wade has delivered some heartening news for Australia's opponents in Brazil.
Mclean has just spent the day training in perfect conditions and followed a photoshoot in the sunshine with an ice bath to soothe any lingering bruises as she prepares to fly to Rio de Janeiro this week for an international sevens tournament.
This incongruence makes it all the more troubling for Abbott as he prepares to meet Obama.
The majority of residents are not portrayed as tabloid-ready caricatures, however, but as a close-knit community on the right side of the law: Sue prepares to become a grandmother again, while best friend Julie – whose disabled son Reagan has passed away since the programme was filmed – celebrates her birthday with family.
A Treasury spokesman said the government supported an inquiry, even though it comes as George Osborne prepares to ask the public to buy shares in Lloyds, where the taxpayer still has a 24% stake.
"This can be disconcerting for early career researchers – nothing in the training prepares you for the first time that a student asks to see you and then bursts into tears.
Compared to those public relations pratfalls, Clinton's appearance before hundreds of assembled reporters – and millions following across the world – was something of a success as she prepares to run for president.
One of the most infamous photographs of the strike shows Sheffield WAPC's Lesley Boulton at the "battle of Orgreave", raising her hand as a police officer on horseback prepares to strike her with his truncheon.
