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Jennifer O’Connor is an American singer-songwriter. She has released a series of well-regarded solo albums, and has either toured or played with Wilco, the Indigo Girls, Feist, Yo La Tengo, Dump, and the Mountain Goats, among other bands and musicians. Paste Magazine has called her a “songwriter’s songwriter,” describing her albums as “master classes in economy and clarity.

Australian star Nicole Kidman says her experience as the mother of adopted children meant she closely related to her character in the movie "Lion," tipped as an Oscar favorite.

Cyprus is unlikely to receive the next tranche of rescue funds from international lenders after apparently falling foul of them over new legislation on loan foreclosures, the island’s government said on Thursday.

The European Union is warning Cyprus that it may be flouting the terms of its multibillion-euro rescue package after the country’s parliament approved legislation softening a crucial foreclosures law.

Greece met the budget goal set by its euro-area partners as a condition for talks on further debt relief.

The government of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras recorded a primary budget surplus, which excludes interest payments, of 1.5 billion euros ($2.1 billion) last year, the European Commission said on Wednesday.