LONDON (Reuters) – Queen Elizabeth is throwing a star-studded party for him at Buckingham Palace and in Buenos Aires, leading cultural figures will gather in an old orphanage to read from his works.

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Frank Delaney knows a surefire way to capture a person’s attention. In fact, the New York Times bestselling author and former BBC broadcaster claims he can do it with only eight words.

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Reuters – In the history of currency, earplugs have, unsurprisingly, never been widely used or accepted. So when a man offered Belgian artist Delphine Boël 10,000 earplugs for her print “The Source of Identity” at the Truc Troc contemporary art exhibit in 2006, her reaction was, “God, he’s crazy.”

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AP – Grammy award-winning singer John Legend surprised a high school choir Tuesday at the Kennedy Center to help start a program encouraging young artists to confront social issues with their art, in honor of the late Marvin Gaye.

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – When Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater threw open its doors after a six-year renovation, a gilded handle broke off in a reporter’s hand during the first dress rehearsal for the opening opera.

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