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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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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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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NEW YORK Chelsea Clinton announced here Thursday afternoon that she is expecting her first child later this year. “I just hope that I will be as good a mom to my child and hopefully children as my mom was to me,” the former first daughter said at an event with her mother, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

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Duke freshman Jabari Parker is passing up his final three years of eligibility to enter the NBA draft.

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Longtime star and current TNT basketball analyst is expecting an offer from the New York Knicks to become their next head coach and is prepared to accept the position. of the New York Post reports figuring out who will coach the team next season is the first major order of business for new president Phil Jackson. A source close to Kerr stated he expects to get the opportunity and is already...

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