Mr. García Márquez, a Colombian who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, wrote fiction rooted in a mythical Latin American landscape of his own creation.

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Wednesday, it was announced that a "Mrs. Doubtfire" sequel was in the works. “Elf” writer David Berenbaum is writing the script, while Robin Williams and director Chris Columbus are also attached to the project, the . The original film starred Williams as a recently divorced father of three who, in order to get closer to his children, develops the persona of a Scottish nanny.

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A planet known as Kepler 186f, 500 light-years away, is the closet match to our own yet discovered, astronomers say.

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Work will likely start on the Kingdom Tower next week. When it's finished, it will stand 3,280 feet tall -- 558 feet taller than Dubai's Burj Khalifa.

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the influential author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "Love in the Time of Cholera," is widely credited with helping to popularize "magic realism" genre.

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It's like finding a needle in a universe-wide haystack. Researchers have located a planet the size of Earth that could be habitable.

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombian Nobel literary laureate, has died at 87

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The new Foo Fighters album is "almost halfway done" producer Butch Vig said in a new interview with [...]

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Well, that's an unfortunate instruction to put on a action figure. Twitter user Steve spotted this Derrick Rose action figure with a "leg assembly required" warning on the box. While it may seem like someone was having some fun at the expense of the injured NBA All-Star, this warning can be found on some of the other players in the action-figure line, such as and Tim Duncan. [, h/t ]...

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Before the final curtain falls on 's basketball career, fans will get a rare treat in the form of a Showtime documentary called Kobe Bryant's Muse profiling one of the greatest Lakers to don purple and gold. In a press release, Showtime announced that it plans to release the documentary at some point this fall, coinciding with Bryant's hopefully healthy return to the Los Angeles Lakers. The...

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