The interview was hardly more than an encounter that shed little light on an important story.

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After many years, I found that I actually had a fondness for Bowie songs, because they made me think of my husband.

One of the first to note the rocker’s passing was a senior Vatican official, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, head of its Council for Culture, who tweeted the famous lyrics from Bowie’s 1969 classic, “Space Oddity.”

Coming together through a little music can bridge many a difference.

It's an ill wind for the future of the region a key player seems so indifferent to the consequences of its action in sowing sectarian division.