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July 15, 2018
German town to hold lottery for coveted graveyard plots
July 14, 2018
TV sensation 'Downton Abbey' coming to the big screen
TANNOURINE, Lebanon - Colombian pop star Shakira on Saturday visited the village in Lebanon where her paternal grandmother was born."Hello Tannourine, thank you, I am happy to be here!", the 41-year-old singer said in Arabic during a visit under high security to the village of Tannourine in Lebanon's mountainous north.Accompanied by local officials, Shakira visited a nature reserve that grows cedar trees - Lebanon's national emblem - and planted two saplings.To mark the occasion, a small patch of the reserve was named "Shakira Mubarak" - after one of the singer's family names, Tannourine's mayor Bahaa Harb said.On Friday evening, she kicked off the Cedars International Festival in Lebanon, a concert set to attract 13,000 people.Shakira performed at the...
July 14, 2018
Shakira visits her grandmother's village in Lebanon
July 14, 2018
'See you in court' aunt tells nephew after $1.2 million lottery win
SÖLDEN, Austria - In the last installment of his adventures, film-goers saw James Bond dice with death in the Austrian Alps. Now in the same location, 3,000 meters above sea level, a museum dedicated to the world of the fictional spy has opened its doors.After a vertiginous cable-car ride, visitors to the museum will be greeted by the sight of the futuristic, angular concrete structure jutting out of the sheer cliff-face, facing a panorama of dramatic peaks - the image of a secret agent's lair.The "007 Elements" installation, which opened this week in Austria's Tyrol province, makes use of one of the standout locations of the last film in the franchise, 2015's "Spectre".Several key scenes were shot in Soelden, one of Austria's most famous winter sports...
July 14, 2018
From Austria with love - new Alpine lair for 007 opens
WASHINGTON - Nancy Sinatra Sr, the teenage sweetheart and first wife of legendary singer Frank Sinatra, has died. She was 101.The announcement was made by Nancy Sinatra Jr who wrote on her website that her mother had died at 6:02 p.m. on Friday but did not say where."She fought hard to remain on this earth but time got the better of her," she wrote, adding that her mother passed "peacefully.""Godspeed, Momma and thank you for everything."Frank and Nancy Sinatra had three children together.Born Nancy Barbato on March 25, 1917 in Jersey City, she met her future husband in the summer of 1934, while they were holidaying with their families on the Jersey Shore.At the time, she was 17 and he was 19. They wed in 1939 at the Our Lady of the Sorrows church in Jersey,...
July 14, 2018
Frank Sinatra's first wife, Nancy, dies at 101
July 11, 2018
Warner Bros. plans $100 million cable car to Hollywood sign
MONTREUX, Switzerland - An all-star cast of musicians from Ibrahim Maalouf to Mos Def, Robert Glasper and Monty Alexander celebrated producer Quincy Jones at an epic Montreux concert that ended just before dawn on Wednesday.Jones, who turned 85 in March, attended the birthday tribute in the House of Jazz at the 52nd edition of the Montreux Jazz Festival, where he served as co-director in the 1990s.Drummer Nate Smith and Kinfolk opened the three-hour show at 2 a.m. with "Skip Step", later joined by Richard Bona on bass."There was no sound check, it's all about improvisation," Smith told the audience of 600 at the free event, to be available on Qwest TV, Jones' video-streaming service, in September.Lebanese-born Maalouf, wearing a green camouflage cap, took center...
July 11, 2018
Jazz stars come out for all-night Montreux jam for Quincy Jones
July 11, 2018
French film legend Deneuve wins Japan's top art prize
July 11, 2018
UK's Harry and Meghan visit Dublin in first trip as married couple
