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Fame reduces musician life expectancy by four years, study finds
Fame can take as many years off a musician's life as occasionally smoking cigarettes, a new study has found, after comparing data between famous singers and less well-known artists.Stardom can shorten lives by 4.6 years, according to research published...
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Parking inspector and wife arrested for €1m meter theft
A parking inspector and his wife have been arrested on suspicion of embezzling more than €1m (£878,000) from the parking meters of a small German town.The unnamed municipal employee is thought to have taken coins out of parking meters...
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Foreign tourists to pay $100 fee to visit US national parks
Foreign tourists visiting popular US national parks like the Grand Canyon and Yosemite will need to pay an extra fee, the Trump administration said on Tuesday.The Department of the Interior, which runs the country's national parks, said each international...
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Russia’s Wagner group accused of killing civilians in cold-blood in Mali
Thomas NaadiBBC Africa, M'berraBBCWarning: This story contains descriptions of torture and physical violence. Some readers may find it distressing.A shopkeeper has told the BBC how Russian mercenaries fighting jihadists in Mali carried out the cold-blooded murder of two men...
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Italian parliament unanimously votes to make femicide a crime
Sarah RainsfordSouthern and Eastern Europe correspondent , RomeGetty ImagesItaly's problems on that front are currently on display at the Museum of the Patriarchy, a thought-provoking new exhibition in Rome.Italy currently ranks 85th in the Global Gender Gap Index, almost...
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Nithari: Indian parents ask who killed their children as Surinder Koli freed in ‘house of horrors’ murders
Geeta PandeyNoida, Uttar PradeshGetty ImagesD5 - the squat bungalow - now sits derelict, out of place among a row of plush, well-kept homes. Abandoned for years, it is scarred by soot from a 2014 fire that gutted parts...
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Woman found alive, moving in coffin after she was taken to Buddhist temple for cremation
A woman in Thailand who was found alive in her coffin at a Buddhist temple was saved from organ donation and cremation because her brother didn't have a death certificate.Wat Rat Prakhong Tham, a Buddhist...
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Hong Kong residents react as deadly fire tears through housing estate
Phoebe Kong & Koey Lee,BBC Chinese , Hong Kong,Danny Vincent,Hong KongandKathryn Armstrong,LondonHarry Cheung, who has lived in block two...