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College Student Dies at Miami Electronic Music Festival

A 21-year-old college student died and 67 other people were arrested over the weekend in Miami during one of the world's biggest electronic music festivals, authorities said Monday.

Authorities were investigating the circumstances the led to the death Friday evening of Adam Levine, a University of Miami student, said Ray Martinez, head of security for the Ultra festival.

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Ben Affleck Says he's Serious about Playing Batman

Ben Affleck hopes Batman fans who were skeptical of him playing the caped crusader in "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" realize how seriously he took the role.

"The most difficult thing about making this movie, honestly, was the physical aspect," Affleck told The Associated Press on Sunday on the red carpet for the film's New York premiere at Radio City Music Hall.

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Judge Urges Madonna to Resolve Son Spat

A judge at England's High Court on Monday pleaded with U.S. pop megastar Madonna and her British film director ex-husband to resolve a legal dispute over their son Rocco amicably.

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Swiss Billionaire Businesswoman Has Twins at 53

Margarita Louis-Dreyfus, a Russian-born Swiss businesswoman who owns the French football club Olympique de Marseille, has given birth to twin girls at the age of 53, her spokeswoman said on Monday.

"The mother and babies are doing well," the spokeswoman said in an email to Agence France Presse, confirming press reports at the weekend.

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Workers' Revenge on France's Richest Man is Feelgood Cinema Hit

It's the year's least likely feelgood hit film in which the little guys take on France's richest man and end up laughing all the way to the bank.

A documentary about an unemployed middle aged couple in one of France's poorest towns so desperately in debt that they were on the point of burning their home has been playing to packed cinemas, with audiences cheering in the aisles.

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Romanian Village Thanks Snoop Dogg for Unlikely Spotlight

The small town of Bogata, Romania on Saturday rejoiced in an unlikely surge of tourism interest after rapper Snoop Dogg mistakenly tagged the village on Instagram.

The California hip-hop great posted a selfie of himself on the photo-sharing site after a recent show in Bogota, Colombia but inadvertently checked himself in as being in the Romanian city, population 2,000.

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TV Documentary to Mark Queen Elizabeth's 90th Birthday

A landmark two-hour documentary about Queen Elizabeth II turning 90 will be screened over the Easter holidays in Britain, Buckingham Palace said Saturday.

Featuring interviews with members of the royal family, politicians, entertainers and sports stars, "Our Queen At Ninety" will be broadcast on ITV television on March 27.

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Adele to Headline Glastonbury Music Festival

Adele will headline this year's Glastonbury music festival on June 25, the bestselling British singer and organizers said on Friday.

"She will headline Saturday night at this year's Glastonbury Festival!" read a message on the festival's official Twitter account.

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Victoria Beckham Launches Hong Kong Store

Fashion designer Victoria Beckham launched her first shop outside Britain in Hong Kong Friday as she seeks to tap the Asia market despite a downturn in luxury spending.

Beckham's store in Hong Kong's Landmark building lies at the heart of the upmarket Central district, a cluster of high-end brands and five-star hotels.

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AC/DC Singer Feels 'Kicked to the Curb'

AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson feels betrayed by his bandmates after the Australian hard rock giants announced he was losing his hearing and postponed a tour, a friend said Tuesday.

The stadium-packing rockers, who are known for painfully loud concerts, last week abruptly halted a U.S. tour and said that a doctor told the 68-year-old Johnson that he risked complete deafness if he kept performing.

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