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Manchester suicide bomber was rescued by British navy in 2014 from Libya: Daily Mail
A British man who killed 22 people in an attack in Manchester at the end of a show by U.S. singer Ariana Grande was rescued from the civil war in Libya three years before by the British navy, the Daily Mail reported. Salman Abedi, born ...
22 Manchester concert bombing fatalities remembered on first anniversary
A minute of silence fell over the English city of Manchester on Tuesday as Britain mourned the 22 killed in a bomb attack there a year ago outside a teen pop concert, with flower tributes, songs and a memorial service to honour the dead. Prime ...
Tickets to Ariana Grande's Manchester benefit concert sell out
Tickets for an all-star benefit concert in aid of the victims of the Manchester bomb attack sold out within minutes of going on sale on Thursday. The "One Love Manchester" concert will be headlined by Ariana Grande, the U.S. singer whose concert in the northern ...
Ariana Grande has called off two London concerts and five in Europe after a suicide bomber killed 22 people at her performance in Manchester, England, the U.S. pop singer's representatives said on Wednesday. Monday's bombing, which killed 22 people and wounded 64, also resulted in ...
Big in Japan? Artists from abroad may find it more difficult to draw a crowd
There are now just three major record labels left on the planet: Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group. These three companies control as much as 80 percent of the music that is commercially available in the world — and not just ...
Zedd pleases, D'Angelo scores at this year's Summer Sonic
An important moment in the life of any music fan comes when they go to a festival they've been attending for several years and think — "Man, am I old?" For me, at 28, the 2015 edition of Summer Sonic marked this milestone (which came ...
Best albums of the year overseas see R&B, rap, slacker sounds of the '90s return to the fold
Top 5 albums of the year • Ariana Grande, "Yours Truly": Executed perfectly (or extremely close to it), there are a few elements to creating a perfect pop album: great songwriting, groovy melodies and vocals that capture and reel you in. With the help of ...
Last month I read about (U.S. Democratic presidential candidate) Hillary Clinton's win in the Pennsylvania primary. Every Japanese newspaper put Clinton's exciting big face in their articles. She looked so happy, pointing her finger at supporters. Looking at these photos, I thought that Americans ...
Regarding David Quintero's May 4 letter, "High Japanese suicide rate mystifies," and the question he poses (Why do so many Japanese people kill themselves?): I don't have a definitive answer, but I have come up with a few theories: • There is historically, in Japan, ...
