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Over her six-decade career, country music legend Dolly Parton wrote about 3,000 songs: upbeat tunes perfect for sing-alongs, introspective heart-wrenching ballads and anthemic pop smash hits. Here is a look at five of Parton’s best-known songs, including the stories behind them and some of her searing lyrics:- ‘Jolene’ -The 1973 song is one of Parton’s […]

Hungarian author Peter Nadas, renowned for his epic surrealist meditations on the darker chapters of 20th-century European history, died on Wednesday aged 83, his publicist told AFP.”Peter Nadas passed away,” publicist Anett Orosz said. A post on Nadas’s Facebook page said the author died early Wednesday at his home in Gombosszeg, western Hungary. The reclusive, acerbic […]

With Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” filling the night air, fans of the late country music icon laid flowers at a Tennessee statue of the singer who changed their US state forever. As news of Parton’s death spread on Tuesday, hundreds of Americans gathered in her hometown of Sevierville to pay homage to their native icon.”We’ve always called […]

Dolly Parton, the country music star who rose from grinding poverty in Tennessee to become a rhinestone-studded cultural icon with hits like “Jolene” and “9 to 5,” has died at 80, her family said Tuesday. Parton was more than a singer — she wrote 3,000 songs, acted in major Hollywood films and donated millions of […]

Europe’s biggest video games show, Gamescom, opened Tuesday with the spotlight on two hit series, “Final Fantasy” and “The Witcher”, with the industry seeking a boost in an era of job cuts and fierce competition. Fans and professionals got a first glimpse at scores of new titles at a sold-out opening ceremony, where Canadian presenter […]

President Donald Trump’s administration suggested Tuesday that the Kennedy Center in Washington could be demolished if courts block his plans to overhaul the performing arts landmark. The extraordinary warning came in a Justice Department filing opposing efforts by Democrats to halt a two-year renovation and to prevent Trump’s name being prominently added to the building. […]

The death of country music icon Dolly Parton, who kept her distance from the political debates gripping America, offered a rare moment of unity to a divided nation on Tuesday. Affording her the sort of honor given to major state figures, President Donald Trump ordered flags across the country to be lowered for a week […]

Country music legend Dolly Parton, who has died at the age of 80, was certainly never at a loss for words — she estimated that she wrote 3,000 songs over the course of her long career. She also was quick-witted. Here are just a few quotes from the music icon:- ‘Backwoods Barbie’: Parton on beauty […]

A taboo-breaking book about Vladimir Putin’s rise to power and private life, written by two exiled Russian journalists, won a newly established French literary prize on Tuesday. The book, titled “The Tsar in Propria Persona: How Vladimir Putin Deceived Us All”, draws on more than two decades of investigative reporting by journalists Roman Badanin and […]