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Katy Perry Says Halftime Performance will Make You 'Roar'

Katy Perry says her American football championship Super Bowl halftime performance will make you "Roar" — with animals.

The singer told reporters at a press conference Thursday that her performance Sunday will include "a lion and sharks."

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Ringo Starr Set for New Album, Tour of Americas

Ex-Beatle Ringo Starr is set for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but first he plans a new album and tour of the United States and Latin America.

The drummer for the Fab Four announced on Thursday the release of his 18th studio album, "Postcards from Paradise," on March 31.

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Japan's Otomo First Manga Artist to Win Top French Prize

Japan's Katsuhiro Otomo on Thursday became the first manga cartoonist to win a lifetime achievement award at France's renowned international Angouleme comics festival.

The 60-year-old is known the world over for the cult manga series Akira, set in a post-apocalyptic Tokyo built on the ashes of a city that was destroyed by a blast that triggered World War III.

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Thorn Birds Author Colleen McCullough Dies Aged 77

Internationally acclaimed Australian author, Colleen McCullough, whose novel "The Thorn Birds" sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, died on Thursday aged 77.

The best-selling writer passed away in hospital on Norfolk Island, which lies in the remote waters off Australia's eastern coast, her publisher said in a statement.

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One Killed, Two Injured at Martin Scorsese Film Set

One person was killed and two others were injured Thursday when part of a house caved in at the Taipei set of Hollywood director Martin Scorsese's upcoming film "Silence," officials confirmed.

A ceiling collapsed on three Taiwanese construction workers who were reinforcing an old brick-and-wood house at the Chinese Culture and Movie Center Central Pictures during pre-production, said the Taipei city fire department.

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Naomi Campbell Displays Superb Stems in Paris Gaultier Show

Veteran supermodel Naomi Campbell made a toned and confident turn on the catwalk Wednesday as a walking bouquet for a bride in a wedding-themed Paris haute couture show by Jean Paul Gaultier.

The 44-year-old British beauty showed off legs and buttocks still as shapely as in her heyday nearly two decades ago, sauntering out in a revealing outfit that was little more than a bikini enveloped with ferns, flowers and see-through plastic. 

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Sundance Filmmaker Turns Focus on Mormon Offshoot

The U.S. director of an award-winning film about sex abuse by Catholic priests has unveiled a new documentary, focusing on child sexual assault in a radical offshoot of the Mormon Church.

Amy Berg, whose "Deliver Us from Evil" (2006) was nominated for an Oscar, premiered her latest film "Prophet's Prey" at the Sundance Film Festival this week.

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U.S. Entertainer Joel Grey Comes Out as Gay

Oscar-winning American entertainer Joel Grey, best known for his star turn in the 1972 big-screen version of the musical "Cabaret," came out as gay on Wednesday.

The 82-year-old actor, singer and dancer, who had two children with ex-wife Jo Wilder before their 24-year marriage ended in 1982, told People magazine that friends and family had known about his sexuality for years.

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Beirut is the Beacon for Designer Elie Saab

Tulip prints, light-as-air silk gowns and as many sparkles as stars in a Middle East night sky -- Elie Saab's haute couture show might have taken place in Paris on Wednesday, but his inspiration was clearly his native Beirut.

The Lebanese designer's elegant outfits have a solid fan following among the wealthy and the famous, several of whom attended the show in a museum a slipper's throw from the Eiffel Tower.

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Amal Clooney on Legal Team in Armenian Genocide Case

Lawyer Amal Clooney is going before Europe's top human rights court to argue against a man convicted for denying the 1915 Armenian genocide.

Clooney is arguing on an appeal before the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights, which ruled in favor of the man, Dogu Perincek, in December 2013.

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