MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexicans bid farewell to renowned author Carlos Fuentes on Wednesday in an emotional tribute attended by the president and the country’s most prominent intellectuals before a planned burial in France.
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Mexico pays tribute to Carlos Fuentes before French burial
NASHVILLE, Tenn (Reuters) – Carrie Underwood says she’s glad she took some time off from country music following her marriage to hockey star Mike Fisher in 2010. After storming the country music scene since her 2005 “American Idol” win, her almost two-year break from recording and touring helped her find “real things to sing about”, and write what she calls her fun, rocking new single “Good Girl.” “I feel like so many people get stuck. They write, they get songs together, they make an album, they go on tour
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Carrie Underwood finds "real things" to sing about
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) – Banjo innovator and bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs, a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, died on Wednesday at a Nashville hospital at age 88.
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Banjo innovator, music pioneer Earl Scruggs dies at 88
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Country singer Taylor Swift, 22, was named Billboard Magazine’s biggest money maker on Friday, beating powerhouses U2, Lady Gaga and Adele to top the list with earnings of more than $35 million in 2011. The “Love Story” singer pocketed more cash from her album sales and world tour in 2011 than Irish rockers U2, country music veteran Kenny Chesney, pop star Lady Gaga, and rapper Lil Wayne, who rounded out the top five on Billboard’s annual list of 40 of music’s biggest money makers
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Country superstar Garth Brooks, singer Connie Smith and keyboard player Hargus “Pig” Robbins are the newest members of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
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Brooks leads 2012 Country Music Hall of Fame class
MIAMI (Reuters) – The older sister of Cuban leaders Fidel and Raul Castro has died in Havana at the age of 88, a sibling who lives in Miami said. Angela Castro, who was the oldest of seven Castro siblings, died on Tuesday after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease, her sister, Juanita Castro, told Cafe Fuerte, a Miami-based website closely watched by the Cuban exile community. “She had been sick in a clinic for some time,” said Castro.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – It was like the bad old days of Soviet TV for Vladimir Pozner, a Russian broadcaster who began his career under Communism, when he found editors had cut parts of a pre-election talk show where he mentioned critics of the Kremlin. But this is 2012. With censorship grown patchy and half the country online, the uncut program had been uploaded to the web – thanks to viewers in Russia’s far east who had caught the show live, before the edited version was broadcast in Moscow later
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Russian media genie pushing at the bottle
AP – Iran trumpeted the Islamic Republic’s first foreign film Oscar win Monday as a triumph over archfoe Israel — even as audiences in Israel packed theaters to watch the movie that beat their country’s entry at the Academy Awards.
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AP – Taylor Swift has a date for the Academy of Country Music awards.
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Taylor Swift asks NJ teen to country music awards
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