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Reuters – Ugandan security forces killed two people and wounded five on Wednesday after fire destroyed historic royal tombs, heightening tension between the government and the powerful Bugandan kingdom.
AP – Biographies of Abigail Adams and Depression-era photographer Dorothea Lange are among the winners of the prestigious Bancroft Prize for history.
Reuters – The Black Eyed Peas, Shakira and Alicia Keys will be among scores of music stars performing at a concert on the eve of the soccer World Cup in South Africa, organizers said Wednesday.
Reuters – Mohamed ElBaradei, former head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog, will disclose details in his memoirs of conversations with U.S. officials who pushed for a war in Iraq that he fought in vain to prevent, the publisher said.
AP – Ambroise Thomas’ “Hamlet” was last performed at the Metropolitan Opera in 1897, and it’s easy to see why more than a century passed before its revival.
AP – An author and journalist who resigned last month from the Internet news site The Daily Beast over allegations of lifting material acknowledged that passages in his latest book are similar to those of another writer.
AP – All 208 episodes of television’s “General Electric Theater,” hosted by then-actor Ronald Reagan, are being delivered to former first lady Nancy Reagan on Wednesday as part of the two-year celebration of the late president’s 100th birthday.
AP – Playtime is over for Woody the cowboy, Buzz Lightyear and friends.
AFP – David and Victoria Beckham left Finland in a private plane following the former England captain’s Achilles tendon surgery, an airport official confirmed on Wednesday, as media reported the couple was headed for London.
Reuters – The Federal Communications Commission is looking at whether it can improve how broadcasters and cable companies negotiate retransmission deals following a recent spat between Walt Disney Co’s ABC Network and Cablevision Systems Corp.
