S. African reggae star Lucky Dube killed
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South African reggae star Lucky Dube was shot in an apparent carjacking attempt and died as he tried to drive away and crashed into a car and a tree, police and news reports said Friday.
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Thousands of Nigerians gathered  on Friday for the village funeral of Osita Osadebe, a legend of  highlife music which fuses West African and Western styles, who  sold millions of records during a career that spanned decades.
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Rapper Ol&#39; Dirty Bastard, equally well known for his scrapes with the law and offbeat antics as for his work with rap collective Wu-Tang Clan, died suddenly in New York Saturday of unknown causes, his record label said.
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US soul legend Ike Turner, who died in December, was killed by a cocaine overdose, coroners say.
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ATANI, Nigeria  - Thousands of Nigerians gathered  on Friday for the village funeral of Osita Osadebe, a legend of  highlife music which fuses West African and Western styles, who  sold millions of records during a career that spanned decades.
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Ol&#39; Dirty Bastard, a founding member of the WuâTang Clan and one of the most eccentric personalities in hipâhop, died of unknown causes on Saturday in New York.
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Five people have been arrested in  connection with the murder last week of reggae star Lucky Dube,  South African police said on Monday.
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MEXICO CITY, May 23 -- A popular Haitian actor and radio talk show host was found shot to death Wednesday in Port-au-Prince, the second killing of a Haitian radio journalist in the past week.
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A team of gunmen shot and killed Lucky Dube in an apparent carjacking attempt late Thursday that underscored the continuing peril of violent crime here.
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South African reggae star Lucky Dube was shot in an apparent carjacking attempt and died as he tried to drive away and crashed into a car and a tree, police and news reports said Friday
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Gunmen have shot and killed South African reggae star Lucky Dube in front of his son and daughter in one of the highest-profile murders in the country, police said on Friday.
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A British artist who made a career of depicting Africa's wildlife has been gored to death by a buffalo in Kenya, his family said.
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The results of an autopsy have revealed that rapper ODB died from a drugs overdose. The New York City medical examiner&#39;s office announced yesterday that the rap-singer, real name Russell Jones, had taken cocaine
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Gunmen disguised as soldiers killed a Colombian oil worker and abducted two other foreigners in Nigeria on Thursday in a raid on the construction yard of oil services company Saipem, authorities said.
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Thousands of fans of South Africa's internationally acclaimed reggae star Lucky Dube paid their final respects at a funeral service Sunday and mourned his murder.
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Rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard, equally well known for his scrapes with the law and offbeat antics as for his work with rap collective Wu-Tang Clan, died suddenly in New York Saturday of unknown causes, his record label said.
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Desmond Dekker, who brought the sound of Jamaican ska music to the world with songs such as &quot;Israelites,&quot; has died, his manager said Friday. He was 64.