The respected German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, famed for his performances of Schubert’s song cycle Winter Journey, dies at the age of 86.

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VIERA, Fla. – Davey Johnson has experienced too much death, and so these days he mostly ignores it. He stopped going to funerals. He will not gaze into the casket. Johnson was deeply saddened when his good friend, Gary Carter, died of a brain tumor this winter . Johnson would have fit perfectly among the baseball dignitaries at the services, the man who managed Carter and the New York Mets to the World Series 26 years ago. He sent his respects, and on the day they buried Gary Carter, Davey Johnson went to the ballpark. Read full article > >

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VIERA, Fla. – Davey Johnson has experienced too much death, and so these days he mostly ignores it. He stopped going to funerals. He will not gaze into the casket. Johnson was deeply saddened when his good friend, Gary Carter, died of a brain tumor this winter . Johnson would have fit perfectly among the baseball dignitaries at the services, the man who managed Carter and the New York Mets to the World Series 26 years ago. He sent his respects, and on the day they buried Gary Carter, Davey Johnson went to the ballpark. Read full article > >

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An outbreak of gastrointestinal illness at a primary school in Ceredigion was probably due to the winter vomiting bug norovirus, public health chiefs say.

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DETROIT — Mitt Romney is escalating his attacks on Rick Santorum as a Washington insider who sought more than $1 billion for wasteful projects during his time as a Pennsylvania senator. But Romney himself has a complicated relationship with federal funds. As the head of the Salt Lake City Olympics, Romney led an aggressive effort to win hundreds of millions of dollars in federal aid for the struggling Winter Games . As governor of Massachusetts, Romney requested millions in federal earmarks for state transportation projects. He once boasted about his prowess in winning taxpayer funds. Read full article > >

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Temperatures plunge to -16C (3.2F) at Holbeach in Lincolnshire overnight, making it the coldest night of the winter so far.

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The UK is braced for its coldest night yet this winter as temperatures in some parts of England could reach as low as -15C.

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The busy streets of Morocco’s capital city are not immune to the common signs of poverty that one would expect in the urban centers of developing nations. Beggars are never far from view in Rabat, whether young children, veiled mothers with babies still too small to walk, or displaced sub-Saharans trying to migrate “elsewhere.” High rates of unemployment, social problems (such as lack of options for divorced women), and the lack of an organized and stable welfare sector contribute to the prevalence of begging on the streets of Morocco. As a resident of Rabat, I continually recognized familiar faces on the downtown streets. And yet, in the winter of 2011, I first encountered a strange man who captured my attention: he goes by the name of “Si Ahmed.”

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Beggar? Activist? Artist? The Intriguing Case of Morocco’s “Street Cartoonist,” Si Ahmed

PASADENA, Calif. — Hosting the Golden Globe Awards has become his “extreme sport,” Ricky Gervais said Friday, a couple of days before his third crack at the annual trophy show on NBC. Appearing at Winter TV Press Tour 2012, Gervais insisted that he “stands by . . . every joke I did last year, and I don’t care what people think” of his performance as host of the 2011 Globes. Read full article > >

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Decisions on the future of Fox dino drama “Terra Nova,” doc drama “House,” paranormal drama “Fringe,” sitcom “I Hate My Teenage Daughter” and even “X Factor” host Steve Jones are just around the corner, Fox programming chief Kevin Reilly came to Winter TV Press Tour 2012 on Sunday to reveal. On the bright side, Reilly screwed up his courage to announce the end of animated comedy “Allen Gregory.” Read full article > >

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TV Column: Future of Fox programming; Kiefer Sutherland; JJ Abrams on ‘Alcatraz’

After the first day of Winter TV Press Tour 2012, PBS released a behind-the-scenes video of the cast of “Downton Abbey,” which returns for its second season in the U.S. on Sunday: Read full article > >

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‘Downton Abbey’ cast talks U.S. reaction to the series (Video)

After the first day of Winter TV Press Tour 2012, PBS released a behind-the-scenes video of the cast of “Downton Abbey,” which returns for its second season in the U.S. on Sunday: Read full article > >

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PASADENA, Calif. — If GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney thinks you can sell ads on “Masterpiece Theatre” or “Sesame Street” and not wind up with “Masterpiece Pawn Stars,” he’s got a lot to learn about the TV industry. So said PBS CEO Paula Kerger on Wednesday, in the nicest way possible, at Winter TV Press Tour 2012. Read full article > >

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TV Column: Bert and Ernie, meet ‘American Pickers’

Energy companies are being urged by the charity Save the Children to do more to help British families struggling to heat their homes this winter.

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Fuel help urged for poor families

The number of patients going online for health information this winter has risen by more than half, the Department of Health says.

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Surge in winter NHS web searches