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(Reuters) – Blues legend B.B. King, who took his music from rural juke joints to the mainstream and inspired a generation of guitarists from Eric Clapton to Stevie Ray Vaughan, has died in Las Vegas.

CHICAGO, (Reuters) – Movie director Spike Lee, known for films that deal frankly with racial issues, appeared in Chicago yesterday to defend his planned movie about the city, after its reported title, “Chiraq,” was criticized by local politicians.

CANNES, France (Reuters) – The 68th Cannes film festival unfurled its official poster featuring Ingrid Bergman on Monday, in a tribute to the Hollywood actress on what would have been her 100th birthday this year.

CANNES, France, (Reuters) – “Mad Max: Fury Road” is a movie of singularities.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Julia Staab was known in 19th-century New Mexico as a successful businessman’s wife, but decades after her death she became famous in her own right when people talked about seeing her haunting her former home.

(Reuters) – “American Idol”, the most popular music reality show in U.S.

(BBC) Iconic Bollywood movie Sholay has been finally released in cinemas in Pakistan nearly 40 years after it first took India by storm, writes the BBC’s M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Hot Chocolate lead singer Errol Brown has died at the age of 71 after suffering from liver cancer, his manager said today.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – An Indian court sentenced Bollywood film star Salman Khan on Wednesday to five years in prison for killing a man in a hit-and-run accident, the latest twist in the tumultuous career of one of the country’s biggest box-office draws.

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Duchess of Cambridge, the wife of Prince William, gave birth to a girl on Saturday, the couple’s second child and a great grand-daughter to Queen Elizabeth.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Two more women, a writer and an actress, on Friday said comedian Bill Cosby had sexually assaulted them decades ago, bringing the list of his accusers to more than 40.

NEW YORK  (Reuters) – Soul singer Ben E. King, famous for the hit song “Stand by Me” died on Thursday at the age of 76, his representative said today.

LOS ANGELES, (Variety.com) – Nothing, it seems, and certainly not Blake Lively, can get “Furious 7” to slam on the brakes.

CLEVELAND, (Reuters) – Former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist last week – the last of the four bandmates to earn the honor in a ceremony in Cleveland celebrating some of the biggest stars of rock music.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Actor Ben Affleck said Tuesday he regretted asking a PBS documentary show profiling his ancestors to not include a relative who was an owner of slaves, saying he was embarrassed by the revelation.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Olympic gold medalist and reality TV star Bruce Jenner said on Friday that he identifies as a woman, becoming the most high-profile American to come out as transgender.

NEW DELHI, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A major Indian jewellery chain has withdrawn an advert featuring Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan with a dark-skinned boy holding a parasol over her after it was slammed by activists and on social media for being racist and promoting child slavery.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – A judge in Los Angeles today ordered rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight to stand trial for murder in the hit-and-run death of a man outside a hamburger stand in January.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Soul singer Percy Sledge, best known for his recording of “When a Man Loves a Woman,” died at his home in Louisiana at age 74 after battling cancer, his agent said on Tuesday.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Veteran blues guitarist B.B. King said he was “feeling much better” and heading home on Tuesday after being hospitalized for diabetes-related issues.