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Whitney Houston, superstar of records, films, dies LOS ANGELES (AP) — Whitney Houston, who ruled as pop music's queen until her majestic voice was ravaged by drug use and her regal image was ruined by erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, died Saturday. She was 48.
Yesterday at 09:32 | Associated Press
BBC Travel: Tracing the coffee house revolution to its Ukrainian roots Ukrainians and Viennese have been arguing for ages about the origins of Europe’s first coffee houses. As far as it can be traced back, a Ukrainian war hero named Yuri Kulczycki brewed the first cup of coffee in Vienna sometime soon after the Battle for Vienna in 1683, in a place called Under the Blue Bottle. Both countries claim credit for inventing European coffee shops, even if for Ukraine, it is only on behalf of its homegrown barrista Kulczycki.

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Yesterday at 12:56 | Yuliya Popova
Clooney, Pitt, Streep due at British film awards LONDON (AP) — Will the spies or the silent stars triumph?
Yesterday at 12:17 | Associated Press