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Music publisher Primary Wave said to have bought rights to pop star’s music, including Toxic and Baby One More Time
Britney Spears has sold the rights to her music catalog, which includes hits such as Toxic, Baby One More Time and Gimme More, according to media reports....

Police have been searching for Belgian tourist, 31, since she went missing near Cradle Mountain in June 2023
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Moderna requests meeting to discuss refusal as decision could have implications for all new and updated vaccines
US regulators will not review Moderna’s request to license a new, potentially more effective flu shot – even though the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) previously gave the green light to the project – in a decision that could have implications...

Ronald Palmer Heath killed a traveling salesman in 1989; last year the state had a record 19 executions
A man convicted of killing a traveling salesman he and his brother had met at a bar has become the first person executed in Florida this year.
Ronald Palmer Heath, 64, was pronounced dead at 6.12pm on Tuesday after a three-drug injection at the Florida state prison near Starke. Heath was convicted of first-degree murder, robbery with a deadly weapon and other charges in the 1989 killing of...