Singer plans UK tour for North Korean orchestra
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A British soprano plans to bring a  120-strong North Korean orchestra to England next year on a  tour she believes will help end the Communist state's  international isolation by strengthening cultural ties.
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A concert by the New York Philharmonic  in North Korea next week that officials say could break  cultural boundaries and draw the two countries closer will be  broadcast throughout the reclusive Communist state.
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Jerry Springer - The Opera is to embark on a UK tour after a controversial BBC broadcast.
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David Blunkett, the target of an inquiry over &quot;fast-tracking&quot; a visa for his ex-lover&#39;s nanny (including new claims he fast-tracked a second visa for her to visit a sister in Austria), has hit the news for &quot;singing&quot; at an early Christmas party.
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Now known as Yusuf Islam, the musician was to be put on a flight to Britain on Wednesday, US and British officials said.
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Travel: Audio slideshow: A tourist guide to North Korea.
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British former pop singer Gary Glitter, jailed in Vietnam for child molestation, is considering moving to Hong Kong after his release, a report said Sunday.
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Mention of North Korea inevitably summons up images of nuclear weapons, Kim Jong-Il and starving children, but a Briton has put on display a side of the reclusive country rarely seen -- its artwork.
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Diplomats from countries including the UK will visit North Korea starting tomorrow to view the site of an explosion that last week prompted speculation of a nuclear test, a spokeswoman for the UK&#39;s Foreign Office said.
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Moved by the story of Megumi Yokota, a  Japanese schoolgirl kidnapped by North Korean secret agents  three decades ago, folk singer Noel Paul Stookey has penned a  song he hopes will help bring her home.
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Singer-songwriter David Gray, Pretenders lead singer Chrissie Hynde, Simply Red's Mick Hucknall and songstress Alison Moyet are among the stars lined up for a concert in London to aid refugees in Sudan.
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Foreigner is eyeing &quot;either the end  of this year or early next year&quot; to release a new album,  according to group founder Mick Jones. And it&#39;s likely to  contain a mix of both brand new and familiar material.
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SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA -- North Korea said yesterday an explosion that raised a huge mushroom cloud last week was the planned demolition of a mountain for a hydroelectric project and the reclusive government invited a British diplomat to visit the site to
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A huge explosion in North Korea last week  was a deliberate blast to pave the way for a hydro-electric  dam, the BBC quoted the North's foreign minister as telling a  visiting British official Monday.
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Foreign Office minister Bill Rammell is travelling to North Korea - the first visit to the country by a British minister.
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The Three Tenors have been to China to  sing. So has Elton John, not to mention Wham!.
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Singer-actress Olivia Newton-John plans  to walk along the Great Wall of China to raise money for a  cancer charity, with celebrities from around the world planning  to join the trek, she told reporters on Tuesday.