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New Kanye West Album Leaks, Creating Online Buzz

Kanye West's new album "Yeezus" leaked online Friday, four days before its official release, but the U.S. rapper appeared unconcerned as the Internet went crazy over his latest record.

The much-anticipated album -- due to be officially released Tuesday -- immediately became a top Twitter trending subject, while instant reviews were largely positive.

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Gothic Cradle for William and Kate

An oak cradle designed to resemble a Gothic cathedral is headed from Poland to London for the July birth of the first child of Prince William and his wife Kate.

Dariusz Bergier, a carver and furniture maker in Tuszyn, central Poland, hopes to send the cradle off to Britain next Wednesday.

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Thatcher and Pinochet Get Operatic Treatment

The relationship between former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and ex-Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet has been turned into an opera due to open in Paris on Friday for a five-night run.

"Allies" revolves around a televised 1999 meeting of the two late leaders when Pinochet was being held under house arrest in Britain.

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Media Magnate Murdoch Divorces Third Wife Wendi

News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch filed papers to divorce his third wife Wendi Deng, citing an "irretrievably" broken marriage to a woman 38 years his junior.

The 82-year-old media tycoon's Chinese-born partner is perhaps best known for a 2011 incident when she leapt to defend her husband by striking a pie-wielding protester, prompting headlines calling her a "tiger wife".

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Crisis-Hit Cyprus Returns to Holiday Island Mode

After Cyprus's bloated banking sector was hit by a body blow this spring, sending the economy further into recession, cut-price summer holiday offers are attracting tourists but not the spending needed.

On the pebbly beach in front of Aphrodite's Rock, where legend has it the goddess was born out of the foam, tourists bask in the sun and bathe in the clear azure waters of the eastern Mediterranean.

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U.S. Celebrity Chef Sued for Counterfeit Wine

Celebrity Chicago chef Charlie Trotter was sued Thursday for allegedly selling two collectors a large bottle of wine that was supposedly highly valuable but in fact was a fake.

Bekim (Benn) and Ilir Frrokaj paid more than $46,200 in June of last year for what Trotter had claimed was a magnum of 1945 Domaine de la Romanee-Conti from the chef's famed, now-shuttered restaurant Charlie Trotter's in Chicago.

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Movie Review: This is the End (2013)

Written by Anthony Sargon

We officially have the year's best comedy. "This is the End" is a blast from start to finish, and thankfully doesn't squander its amazing cast. It stars some of the biggest names working in comedy today, all playing themselves, trying to survive the apocalypse. It's crude, memorable, and hilarious.

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Clashes Erupt as Tunisia Court Jails Rapper for Two Years

A Tunisian rapper was handed a two-year jail sentence on Thursday for insulting the police in a song, an Agence France Presse journalist reported, with the court ruling sparking clashes between his supporters and police.

Ala Yaacoub, better known by his rap name "Weld El 15", was being retried at the same court in a Tunis suburb that had convicted him in absentia in March, after he handed himself him in to face justice.

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CEO Describes Jackson as Forceful Businessman

The head of AEG Live LLC told jurors Wednesday that he knew Michael Jackson as a sophisticated, forceful businessman and not the drugged-up performer who's been described throughout an ongoing civil trial filed over the singer's untimely death.

Jackson was a far more complex figure than has been portrayed during the trial of a case filed by the singer's mother against AEG Live over her son's death, said Randy Philips, the company's president and CEO.

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Jennifer Lopez: 'We're Realizing our Power'

Jennifer Lopez says Latinos in the United States are starting to realize their power in politics and media, and that makes the timing good for her latest undertaking: Lobbying for greater diversity in TV programming.

The entertainer spoke Wednesday at the Cable Show, a communications convention, ahead of new programming set to launch July 18 on the NUVOtv network. Lopez serves as chief creative officer of the English-language Latino channel.

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