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32-year-old Christina Aguilera showed off her significantly trimmer figure in a flirty little black and white dress as she arrived for a screening of NBC's The Voice Season 4 at TCL Chinese Theatre on Wednesday night. 

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Literary Icon Chinua Achebe dies at 82

Chinua Achebe, the internationally acclaimed Nigerian writer, has died in America at age 82.

Best known for his first novel, Things Fall Apart, Achebe was also a poet, professor and critic.He died Thursday night in Boston in the United States after a period of illness, according to friends. For the past four years, he was professor of African studies at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

Things Fall Apart is thought to be the most widely read book in modern African literature. On its publication in 1958, it turned him into a literary celebrity abroad and an influential intellectual in Nigeria.
The novel has sold more than 12 million copies and been translated into 50 languages. According to Nelson Mandela, Achebe “brought Africa to the rest of the world".
Achebe won the inaugural Man Booker International prize in 2007. Ten years earlier, his novel, Anthills of the Savannah, had been shortlisted for the British Man Booker prize.

Corruption was a recurring theme in his writing. A Man of the People, Achebe’s fourth novel, satirised post-Independence Nigeria. The book, published in 1966, was also remarkably prescient. It ends with a coup attempt – a fate that befell Nigeria later that year. Achebe was forced to flee the country after the military suspected him of involvement.He was also a supporter of Biafra’s bloody breakaway from Nigeria between 1967 and 1970, and blamed the conflict on Nigeria’s colonial past.
Western writers were not immune from his criticism either. In 1975, he gave a lecture in which he accused Joseph Conrad as a “bloody racist”.

Achebe married Christie Achebe in 1961. She was a colleague at the Nigerian Broadcasting Service, where they both worked, and they had three children.
In 1990, he was in involved in a car accident in Lagos and required the use of a wheelchair for the rest of his life.

Miss Israel Describes Barack Obama as a 'World Class Hunk' !

When asked about the US president, 22 year old Miss Israel, Yityish Aynaw, who was part of a gala dinner hosted by Shimon Peres, Israel's president during Mr Obama's Middle East trip, replied, "He's an exciting man, a world-class hunk, charming and an extraordinary gentleman."
She added that she did not think Michelle Obama, the First Lady, would be jealous.Mr Obama reportedly told Ms Aynaw: "You are very beautiful ... Michelle would have been very happy to be as tall as you are."

Ms Aynaw, who emigrated to Israel from Ethiopia with her Jewish grandparents after the death of her mother when she was 12, said Mr Obama was a role model "who broke down barriers, a source of inspiration".