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he was 53. police say they were called to his home in oxfordshire shortly before 2pm on christmas day. they ve confirmed he was found dead at the scene. it s being treated as unexplained but not suspicious. george michael shot to fame in the 1980s with the group wham, and went on to have a hugely successful solo career. andy moore looks back at his life. # well, i hadn t seen your face around town a while so i greeted you, with a knowing smile. he burst onto the scene in the early 1980s when he formed wham with andrew ridgeley. the duo had number one singles around the world. they even conquered china, becoming the first western pop band to perform there. george michael loved fame but never became used to it. to be obviously a part of people s lives as an artist, that s what i dreamed of and that s what i m still grateful for. but my god, i wish i could cope with the other stuff the way other people do. i wish i d been born with that particular suit of armour, you know, ....
people coming out here in the streets to oppose this woman hating, racist, disgusting fascist regime. in places, the carols have been drowned out by anti trump chants. the buildings that bear his name have become focal points of protest. many new yorkers hate having donald trump in their midst. new yorkers loathe trump. and always have. and that tells you a lot. this is his hometown. new yorkers hate donald trump. and have for decades. we know him better than anybody in the country. it is despicable that a new yorker could be so egregiously against women, people of colour, people of different religions. when he comes from the most beautiful melting pot of new york. it is a dagger in my heart, to be honest, as a new yorker. it makes me want to cry, right now. i m sorry. protests large and small have become almost a permanent feature of life in new york city since the election of donald trump. and feelings are particularly intense in manhattan, his home, where nine out of ....
and how migrating birds risk missing out on vital breeding grounds because of rising global temperatures, according to a new study. good evening and welcome to bbc news. russia has announced a nationwide ceasefire in the syrian conflict. the deal has been brokered by russia and turkey who ve been on opposing sides in the conflict. the syrian government and main opposition groups have agreed to a ceasefire from midnight local time tonight. but some groups including so called islamic state are not part of the agreement. the announcement was made in moscow from where our correspondent steve rosenberg reports. for nearly six years, syria has been torn apart by civil war. a country reduced to ruins. a conflict that has left more than 400,000 people dead. there have been peace initiatives before which brought no peace. but today russia announced a breakthrough. in the kremlin, russia s defence minister handed vladimir putin a list of syrian opposition groups that had si ....
good evening and welcome to bbc news. the us has expelled 35 russian diplomats as punishment for alleged interference into last month s presidential elections, giving them and their families 72 hours to leave the country. it will also close two compounds used for russian intelligence gathering based in new york and maryland. president barack obama had vowed to take action against russia amid us accusations that it directed hacks against the democratic party and hillary clinton s election campaign. russia has denied any involvement. tonight, a kremlin spokesman said the sanctions were ungrounded and not legal . let s get more from our north america editor, jon sopel. give us more detail about what is happening and why? what happens on these occasions is that you have a series of gradations of response that you can make if you are the us president and you are cross with a foreign government, from the symbolic slap on the wrist to something much firmer. this is much firme ....
35 russian diplomats have been given 72 hours to leave the country and two compounds are being closed. the russian government, which has denied any involvement in hacking, is considering retaliation. laura bicker reports from washington. russia stands accused of trying to help donald trump become president. moscow had been warned but now it is being punished for interfering in us elections. america s top intelligence agencies believe a cyber attack on the e mails of hillary clinton s closest aides was orchestrated by the highest levels of russian government. but mr trump has always questioned the evidence. once they hack, if you don t catch them in the act, you never will. you don t know if it is russia or china. it could be somebody sitting on a bed someplace. but the cia and the fbi both agree. the hackers, they say, were russian, and now mr trump is softening his stance. president obama said all americans should be alarmed. he has ordered 35 diplomats to be expelled, ....