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King Charles greets royal fans as coronation buzz builds

King Charles III greeted the crowds outside Buckingham Palace on Friday on the eve of his coronation, with royal revellers cranking up the party atmosphere with fancy dress and inflatable crowns.. The scene looks like a costume party, with many extravagantly dressed up in all manner of costumes and accoutrements and wearing blow-up crowns on their heads.

King Charles greets royal fans as coronation buzz builds

King Charles III greeted the crowds outside Buckingham Palace on Friday on the eve of his coronation, with royal revellers cranking up the party atmosphere with fancy dress and inflatable crowns.. The scene looks like a costume party, with many extravagantly dressed up in all manner of costumes and accoutrements and wearing blow-up crowns on their heads.

Ouster of conspiracy-pushing host exposes Fox News quandary

Fox News is caught between a rock and a hard place after prime-time host Tucker Carlson's ouster, with legal challenges piling pressure to curb what observers call blustery on-air disinformation at the risk of alienating his large conservative audience.. "Tucker Carlson's ouster exposed the inherent flaw in Fox News' business model: It built a massive audience with incendiary, toxic rhetoric," Matt Gertz, a senior fellow at the nonprofit Media Matters for America, told AFP.  "Carlson's show drove away advertisers, but now his fans are abandoning Fox, and to win them back, the network will likely have to deploy the sort of Carlson-style content that alienates its business partners.

Rising star rides Mexican music's wave of success

A fast-rising young Latin music star is helping a Mexican musical genre that has courted controversy by glamorizing drug traffickers to take global charts by storm.. These days it is also known for rap-infused "narcocorrido" ballads about drug traffickers.

Carrie Fisher's Walk of Fame star provokes family wars wars

Late "Star Wars" actor Carrie Fisher was honored with a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame Thursday, in a ceremony overshadowed by a bitter feud among her family.. A campaign to obtain a star for Fisher had been running for years, with fans complaining that her male co-stars Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford have long had their own honors.

British musician Ed Sheeran wins US copyright trial

British pop phenom Ed Sheeran did not plagiarize Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On" when composing his 2014 hit "Thinking Out Loud," a US jury ruled Thursday.. The two wrote "Thinking Out Loud" at Sheeran's home in February 2014, he said.

UK crowning fuels calls to return royal gems to S.Africa

The coronation of King Charles III has rekindled calls for Britain to return to South Africa the world's largest diamond -- the centrepiece of the sceptre he will hold at Saturday's ceremony.. An online petition urging King Charles to return the Cullinan diamonds has been signed by more than 8,000 people.