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EDINBURGH, United Kingdom – The National Arts Centre Orchestra is paying tribute to Cpl. Nathan Cirillo during its current tour of the United Kingdom.

MADRID – Architect Frank Gehry travelled to Spain to receive a prestigious award but shocked his hosts by responding to a reporter’s question with an obscene gesture and making contemptuous comments about most modern architecture.
RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazilian Jose Aldo beat American Chad Mendes by unanimous decision to successfully defend his featherweight title in UFC 179 at Maracanazinho arena early Sunday.

TORONTO – The Canada-wide response to the weekend saga between CBC and Jian Ghomeshi was so thunderous, our neighbours to the south felt the reverberations.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – There was a bit of a British invasion at the Beverly Hilton hotel, as BAFTA Los Angeles hosted its annual Britannia Awards, honouring film and television talent from both sides of the pond, including director Mike Leigh and actors Dame Judi Dench, Emma Watson, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Robert Downey Jr.

ATLANTA – The Roots are tapping into their resources to help raise funds for their alma mater in Philadelphia.
LONDON – A personal story of grief and raptors that combines memoir, biography and nature writing has won Britain’s leading literary award for nonfiction.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Maureen O’Hara’s most recent film credit was more than a dozen years ago, but the 94-year-old actress said she’s ready for a role anytime.

WASHINGTON – U.S. services firms expanded more slowly in October, but the pace of growth was still healthy. Hiring also rose to the fastest pace in more than nine years.

GEORGETOWN, Del. – A former Baltimore Ravens cheerleader and the estranged wife of a prominent Maryland energy executive was arraigned Wednesday in Delaware on charges of having sex with a 15-year-old boy who attends school with at least one of her children.
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – As Harry Belafonte joins the elite EGOT club — adding an Oscar statuette to an awards cache that already includes an Emmy, Grammy and Tony — he says inspiring social consciousness has always motivated him artistically.
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – An entertainment executive pledged a collection of paintings by Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas and other major artists to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on Thursday, a donation the institution called the largest in its history.

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Rihanna will host her first Diamond Ball on Dec. 11 to benefit her foundation that promotes education and arts globally.

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Darth Vader, Mufasa, and even the tagline for a certain 24-hour news network helped make James Earl Jones one of the most recognizable voices on the planet and soon the recipient of the first Voice Icon Award.
ATLANTA – A federal mediator says a tentative agreement has been reached in a labour dispute involving the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – The first Oscar statuettes of the season were presented Saturday night at the film academy’s Governors Awards.
CAIRO – On a chilly night, bearded militants gathered at a stage strung with colorful lights in Darna, a Mediterranean coastal city long notorious as Libya’s centre for jihadi radicals. With a roaring chant, they pledged their allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State group.

NEW YORK, N.Y. – A radiant painting by Mark Rothko and one of Jasper Johns’ iconic flag paintings were among the stars at the second day of New York’s dazzling post-war and contemporary art auctions.
NEW YORK, N.Y. – For more than a century, cities around the world have compared themselves to Paris. Many claim to be the Paris of the East: Bucharest, Prague, Istanbul, Beirut and Shanghai to name a few. There’s also the Paris of North America (Montreal), the Paris of South America (Buenos Aires) and the Paris of the Plains — Kansas City in the Jazz Age.

PORTLAND, Maine – Maine-born actor Patrick Dempsey is returning home this weekend to receive an award for his leadership in caring for cancer patients

TORONTO – The search for a permanent replacement for “Q” host Jian Ghomeshi fired amid unproven allegations he was violent toward women will begin in earnest next week, the CBC said Wednesday.

TORONTO – Chelsea Peretti’s ultra-confident onstage persona started as an act. But the comedian and “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” star says that faking self-assurance actually helped make it real.

MOSCOW – Canada’s Alaine Chartrand was all confidence and grace on the ice, but she was cheerfully flustered off it Friday after taking the lead in the Rostelecom Cup.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – Five screenwriters new to Hollywood have already earned the film academy’s stamp of approval.