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The Canadian singer suffers another family tragedy as it's confirmed her older brother Daniel has died of cancer.
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Saturday 16 January 2016
Dion's older brother Daniel Dion, 59, passed away a day after it was revealed he had just days to live.
He was one of the Canadian singer's 13 siblings.
Dion's husband and manager Rene Angelil died on Thursday, the day before his 74th birthday, after a long battle with throat cancer.
The 73-year-old, who passed away at his suburban Las Vegas home, will be laid to rest on 22 January at the same cathedral where the couple married.
A post on Dion's official website read: "According to his final wishes, his funeral will be held at Notre-Dame Basilica in Montreal, where 21 years ago he chose to marry the one who will remain as the great love of his life, the artist for which he had the most respect, the woman who gave him light and happiness until his very last breath."
Dion, 47, and Angelil had three children together - Rene-Charles, who was born in 2001 and twins Nelson and Eddy, who were born in 2010.
The couple, who were 26 years apart in age, got married in an elaborate ceremony in 1994 at Notre Dame Basilica in Montreal.
Angelil stepped down as his wife's manager in 2014, turning her career over to a friend of the couple.
However, he remained involved in business decisions.
Dion has won a number of Grammy awards during her successful career, including for the Titanic theme My Heart Will Go On.
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Burkina Faso's government says 26 people were killed and a further 56 injured after Islamist militants attacked a hotel in the capital, Ouagadougou, popular with foreigners.
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has said it carried out the attack, which began on Friday night.
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(The Hollywood Reporter)Adam Sandler and "Fifty Shades of Grey" lead the nominations for the season's most unwanted awards and are looking strong favorites to pick a few Razzies with multiple noms.
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It was unlike any State of the Union address that President Obama has delivered before. Instead of a laundry list of legislative goals, this speech was about defending his achievements and articulating what he wants his legacy to be.
That, of course, was a highly political task and there were plenty of thinly veiled attacks on his Republican opponents and Donald Trump in particular - although he was never mentioned by name.
But near the end of the speech, Mr Obama also spoke about Washington's hyperpartisan politics - and took some personal blame for the division and dysfunction it has led to.
"It's one of the few regrets of my presidency - that the rancour and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better," he said.
"There's no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I'll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office."
This was the hopeful Obama of 2008, tempered by the realities of two terms in the White House.
The candidate who promised to break down the barriers between red states and blue states has found it is harder to make purple than he thought.
And perhaps that moment of candour was contagious. Moments after the speech ended I spoke with Republican congressman Luke Messer of Indiana.
Yes, he dismissed the president's vision of today's US as a "great Jedi mind trick" played on the American people. But he also accepted that his party's rhetoric often did not help lead to solutions either.
As Stu Rothenburg, joining me in the BBC's Washington studio for post-speech analysis, put it, the admission was both rare and revealing. How long it lasts is another matter.
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For years, fans have worried that Leonardo DiCaprio is on track to become the Susan Lucci of the Academy Awards.
Lucci, the beloved star of the now-canceled soap "All My Children," endured 19 consecutive Daytime Emmy nominations for best actress before finally winning in 1999.
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A photographer has created images that place some of Star Wars' best-loved characters on oil rigs parked up in the Cromarty Firth in the Highlands.
Glasgow-based photographer Craig Mann, whose work usually features landscapes from around the world, used Photoshop to make the pictures.
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The US director of national intelligence has had several of his personal online accounts hacked, his office has confirmed.
A spokesman said the matter had been "reported to the appropriate authorities", but declined to say more.
As director of national intelligence, James Clapper serves as a key adviser to the US president on security matters including cyberthreats.
It follows a similar cyber-attack on the CIA's director in October.
The Motherboard news site reported on Tuesday that it had been contacted by a young hacker who had claimed responsibility.
Motherboard reported the teenager had said he was part of the same group - Crackas With Attitude (CWA) - behind the earlier breach.
Calls rerouted
The youth said he had broken into Mr Clapper's personal email, his Verizon phone and internet account settings and a Yahoo email account belonging to Mr Clapper's wife.
The BBC understands that Mr Clapper's office has only seen evidence that the hacker actually accessed Sue Clapper's email and the couple's family phone number.
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