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• Popstar Justin Bieber given month to collect pet monkey
• Muppets matriarch Jane Nebel Henson dies at age 78
• Angelina Jolie to sell jewelry line to fund overseas schools
• Scottish author Iain Banks has terminal cancer
• Muppets matriarch Jane Nebel Henson dies at age 78

Popstar Justin Bieber given month to collect pet monkey Posted: 03 Apr 2013 05:20 AM PDT BERLIN (Reuters) - Teenage pop sensation Justin Bieber has been given a month to provide German authorities with the papers they need to release his pet monkey "Mally". Customs officials seized Bieber's capuchin monkey at Munich Airport last week when the 19-year-old failed to present the health and species protection certificates required to bring the pet into the country. Bieber was visiting Munich to give a concert and has since continued on his tour. ...

Muppets matriarch Jane Nebel Henson dies at age 78 Posted: 02 Apr 2013 04:49 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Jane Nebel Henson, the former wife of Muppets creator Jim Henson who was influential in the creation of the popular U.S. TV puppet program, died on Tuesday following a long bout with cancer, The Jim Henson Company said. She was 78 years old. Henson, who died at her home in Connecticut, was an "integral creative and business partner" in the Muppets, the company, owned by the Hensons' five children, said in a statement. ...

Angelina Jolie to sell jewelry line to fund overseas schools Posted: 02 Apr 2013 02:54 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Angelina Jolie has opened another girls school in Afghanistan and plans to fund more from the proceeds of a jewelry line going on sale this week that she helped to design, celebrity website E! News reported on Monday. Jolie, a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, funded the girls-only primary school in an area outside Kabul that has a high refugee population, E! News said in an exclusive report. The school educates 200-300 girls, E! said. ...

Scottish author Iain Banks has terminal cancer Posted: 03 Apr 2013 04:48 AM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - Scottish novelist Iain Banks, whose books include "The Wasp Factory" has revealed he is suffering from cancer and is unlikely to live "beyond a year". The author, who also wrote "The Crow Road" and "Complicity," announced his illness on his website on Wednesday and said he was cancelling all future public engagements. Banks, 59, said his problems came to light after a visit to his doctor about a sore back. Tests revealed he was not only suffering from jaundice but also cancer in his gall bladder. "I am officially very poorly ... ...

Muppets matriarch Jane Nebel Henson dies at age 78 Posted: 03 Apr 2013 05:46 AM PDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Jane Nebel Henson, the former wife of Muppets creator Jim Henson who was influential in the creation of the popular U.S. TV puppet program, died on Tuesday following a long bout with cancer, The Jim Henson Company said. She was 78 years old. Henson, who died at her home in Connecticut, was an "integral creative and business partner" in the Muppets, the company, owned by the Hensons' five children, said in a statement. ...

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