Robin Gibb, soaring voice behind Bee Gees
Robin Gibb, whose soaring vocals formed part of
the unique Bee Gees sound, has died at the age of 62, leaving Barry
as the sole surviving member from the band of brothers. The
high-pitched close harmonies, sharp songwriting and disco-defining
sound of elder brother Barry, Robin and his twin brother Maurice
made them one of the biggest-selling groups of all time.
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Eclipse ‘ring of fire’ wows Asian, US sky-gazers
Millions turned their eyes to the sky on both
sides of the Pacific as a solar eclipse created a “ring of fire”
from Asia to the western United States, where it was greeted with
whoops in California. The annular eclipse was visible from parts of
China early Monday before moving westwards across Taiwan and Japan,
and was continuing across the Pacific on a 13,600-kilometre
(8,500-mile) arc ending in Texas late Sunday local time.
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North Koreans in rice belt starve to death
Food shortages have worsened even in North
Korea’s southwestern rice belt and some residents have starved to
death there, a Seoul-based online newspaper said Monday. “Because of
worsening food shortages this year there were reports of people
starving to death even in South and North Hwanghae provinces,” a
Daily NK reporter told AFP, referring to the country’s agricultural
heartland.
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