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The award is granted once every four years to a pianist with exceptional qualities, chosen by a secretive committee. This time, a young Polish musician who specializes in Chopin has earned the generous $300,000 prize.

Chicago-based jazz singer Kurt Elling consistently gets the top spot in music magazine polls for Best Male Vocalist. His new album Nightmoves, is his first for the Concord Jazz label.

The United States drew a spot in Group B, meaning the men's soccer team will face off against England, Iran and the winner of a European playoff — setting up a challenging run for the U.S. squad.

Leonard Pickel, a haunted house architect, has been designing fear factories for more than 40 years.

The pop star's SOUR tour sold out as fans faced long queues and site outages. A Ticketmaster feature meant to "level the playing field" failed to bar scalpers, who are reselling tickets for thousands.

The base is one of the epicenters of the US presence in Afghanistan.

The saxophonist James Carter has recorded tributes to Billie Holiday and the gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt, among others. On a new record called Gold Sounds, he and a top-shelf trio pick a less obvious target: the work of the alternative rock band Pavement.

Quentin Geant, California branch manager of Beeopic, works with his father Nicolas Geant to care for the nearly 180,000 bees on top of Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral. The bees survived last week's fire.

Peruvians go to the polls Sunday to choose between a wide variety of presidential candidates. The front-runners are a leftist who opposes eradication of the coca crop, and a pro-business former congresswoman who would be the nation's first woman president.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il indicates that his country could return to international disarmament negotiations in July. Kim said as much in his first meeting with a top South Korean official in more than three years.