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Astrud Gilberto spread bossa nova to a welcoming world – but got little love back in Brazil

Astrud Gilberto backstage at New York City’s Birdland Jazz Club in 1964. Popsie Randolph/Michael Ochs Archives via Getty Images by Mario Higa, Middlebury Astrud Gilberto didn’t set...

Pelé: a global superstar and cultural icon who put passion at the heart of soccer

by Simon Chadwick, SKEMA Business School Pelé, soccer’s first global superstar, has died at the age of 82. To many fans, the Brazilian will be...

Why Nicaragua’s slide toward dictatorship is concern for the region, US

Nicaragua’s power couple, Vice President Rosario Murillo and husband President Daniel Ortega. INTI OCON/AFP via Getty Images by Kai M. Thaler, University of California Santa Barbara Nicaraguan...

Zika virus: CDC issues historic travel advisory to Miami

For the first time in the CDC’s history, the government agency has issued a travel advisory to an American city in light of the detection…

Soccer officials arrested in Zurich; World Cup votes probed

ZURICH (AP) _ Swiss prosecutors opened criminal proceedings into FIFA's awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, only hours after seven soccer officials...

Pope to World Cup: Overcome racism, greed in sport

VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Francis has a message for the World Cup: Let football be a showcase for teamwork and solidarity, not an...

From Bronx to Brazil: J.Lo to sing at World Cup

NEW YORK (AP) — Not so fast: J.Lo is performing at the World Cup after all. Jennifer Lopez said in an interview with The Associated...

Facebook, Twitter brace for World Cup fever

NEW YORK (AP) — This year's World Cup will play out on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and messaging apps like WhatsApp just as it progresses...

Rapping rebels promote Colombia peace talks

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia's largest rebel group is turning to rap music to try to rally support for peace talks. The fast-paced, 4-minute clip...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel laureate, dies at 87

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez crafted intoxicating fiction from the fatalism, fantasy, cruelty and heroics of the world that set...

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