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Ricky Martin's single "Adios" propels new album to charts

Ricky Martin talks about the success of his latest album and the booming Hispanic market. The Latino pop star's new album, "A Quien Quiera Escuchar," is out and already a hit.

USA

Republican Ted Cruz to fight for the White House

Republican Senator Ted Cruz has announced he is in the race to contest the 2016 US presidential election. In so doing he becomes the first Republican

USA

Ted Cruz to run for US president, says aide

Republican Senator Ted Cruz from the US state of Texas is about to announce his plans to run for the American presidency, according to an aide

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'Death to America': Iran's Supreme Leader accuses the US of 'bullying'

Iran's Supreme Leader accuses the US of 'bullying' as the deadline looms for an agreement on Tehran's nuclear programme.

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Machete-wielding man shot by police at US airport

A man who tried to storm a security checkpoint at a US airport armed with a machete has been shot three times by police. The man is said to have

Switzerland

Deadlocked Iran nuclear talks suspended

Iran and six world powers have broken off nuclear talks in Lausanne. Negotiations were suspended so the Iranian delegates could attend the funeral of

USA

Mississippi lynching? Black man found dead hanging from tree

Cinema

Oscar-winning doc 'Citizenfour' chronicles Edward Snowden's

'Citizenfour' chronicles Edward Snowden's exchanges with journalists in a Hong Kong hotel room as he reveals the scale of the US government's spying programme at home and abroad.

USA

US to 'reassess' relations with Israel after Netanyahu comments

US President Barack Obama has told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Washington would “reassess” US-Israeli diplomatic relations after

Sport

Vonn clinches downhill title in Meribel

America’s Lindsey Vonn won the season-ending World Cup downhill at Meribel to secure the discipline’s crystal globe, the 18th of her career. The

Israel

Israel elections: reactions from Washington DC

The Israeli election result has been greeted with neither surprise nor irritation in Washington. The White House had said that President Obama

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Cinema

"Home" is where the heart is for new Dreamworks comedy

Rihanna, Steve Martin, Jim Parsons and Jennifer Lopez are the voices behind a new Dreamworks animated alien-invasion comedy. “Home” is the tale of

USA

Ukraine and Russian diplomats 'bandy words' in a bad tempered OSCE meeting

A special session in Washington of the Organization for Security and co-operation in Europe brought together the Russian and Ukranian ambassadors on

USA

US millionaire is charged with murder after a live microphone picks up his apparent confession

US millionaire Robert Durst has been charged with murder after being accidently recorded apparently confessing to three killings

Economy

Americans get more bang for their buck in Europe as euro slides

Americans travelling to Europe are getting more bang for their buck, as the euro slides towards parity with the dollar.

Sport

Rigin outclasses Massialas in Cuba

Russia’s Dmitry Rigin kept his composure to edge out Alexander Massialas and clinch the men’s foil Grand Prix in Havana on Sunday. The 29-year-old

USA

Iran nuclear talks resume with time running out to reach framework deal

With just two weeks to go to a deadline for reaching agreement on a nuclear deal, US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart

Cinema

Liam Neeson returns in mean mobster B-movie 'Run All Night'

‘Run All Night’ tells the story of mobster and hit man Jimmy Conlon, played by Liam Neeson, who has one night to figure out where his loyalties lie

Cinema

Young Iranian-American debut feature is festival favourite

Desiree Akhavan makes her feature film debut with festival favourite ‘Appropriate Behavior’. Written and directed by Akhavan, who also stars in the

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