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Miss World/Trinidad and Tobago 2013 Shereece Villafana has been stripped of her crown.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Country-pop star Taylor Swift scored big at the American Music Awards yesterday, taking home four wins including the night’s top prize for artist of the year, as some of pop music’s biggest names came together for the fan-voted awards ceremony.

LAS VEGAS,  (Reuters) – Two U.S.-born Puerto Rican artists, Marc Anthony and Draco Rosa, and the Colombian singer Carlos Vives yesterday won the top Latin Grammy music awards in a night that rewarded comebacks and long careers.

JAMAICANS breathed a sigh of relief last night as Tessanne Chin made it into the top eight on the NBC televised talent show, The Voice.

(Jamaica Observer) AFTER much anticipation for Sizzla’s return to performing in the United States, his tour of that country has hit a roadblock.

(Trinidad Guardian) Antiguan band Burning Flames’ contentious single Kick ‘een’ She Back Door is causing commotion once more. 

AMSTERDAM,  (Reuters) – Katy Perry won the award for best female singer at the 2013 MTV EMA music awards tonight, pipping Lady Gaga and Miley Cyrus to the post in MTV’s first award ceremony since the launch a week ago of the upstart YouTube Music Awards.

(India Times) Miss Venezuela Gabriela Isler won the coveted Miss Universe 2013 crown on Saturday night, beating 85 other contenders from around the world at a glittering ceremony held in Crocus City Hall, Moscow, Russia.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Actor Tom Cruise called reports that he had abandoned his daughter Suri after his divorce from actress Katie Holmes “patently false” in court documents for a defamation and invasion of privacy lawsuit against a German media company.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Move over Black Widow and step aside She-Hulk: Marvel Comics is introducing a new superhero – a 16-year-old Muslim-American girl named Kamala Khan, to reflect the growing diversity of its readers.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Family of late soul singer Marvin Gaye sued R&B recording artists Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams for copyright infringement on Wednesday, accusing them of stealing from the Motown legend’s musical composition for the hit single “Blurred Lines.”

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – R&B singer Chris Brown is entering rehab “to gain focus and insight into his past and recent behavior,” the singer’s representatives said on Tuesday, after Brown was arrested and charged with assault over the weekend.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – American rapper 50 Cent on Monday struck a deal with Los Angeles prosecutors for three years’ probation and 30 days of community service after allegedly kicking the mother of his child and destroying her property during a June altercation.

(Reuters) – Lou Reed, whose band the Velvet Underground became one of the most influential in rock by fusing art and music in collaboration with artist Andy Warhol in 1960s New York, died today at the age of 71, Rolling Stone reported.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – British actor Orlando Bloom and Australian model Miranda Kerr have separated after three years of marriage, the couple said on Friday.

(Reuters) Singer Manna Dey, whose versatile voice charmed fans of Bollywood cinema for more than 60 years, died in Bangalore today, a hospital spokesman said.

(Trinidad Express) The Mighty Sparrow, Slinger Francisco, has been released from hospital and he is now recovering in a special therapy facility.

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates – Overseers of Abu Dhabi’s Grand Mosque say they asked pop star Rihanna to leave the compound after she posed for photographs considered to be at odds with the “sanctity” of the site, according to the Associated Press.

(Jamaica Observer) BERES Hammond was still in the stages of a comeback when he first met music producer Donovan Germain in 1990.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – The 3-D outer space thriller, “Gravity,” continued to rocket past its box office competition over the weekend, eclipsing newcomer “Carrie,” to maintain its tight grip on the U.S.