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Canadian couple performs mix of Afro-Cuban & jazz

The improvisational nature of jazz draws musicians who are responsive to their own inclinations. Take Jane Bunnett. At first preparing for a career as a classical pianist, she visited San Francisco in the mid-70s and was dazzled by the quintet of the great bassist Charles Mingus. Back home in Toronto, she took up jazz flute and soprano saxophone. Now, at age 55, Bunnett is an acclaimed jazz artist and one of the jazz world's few female sax players. She has also developed a distinctive career interweaving jazz with Afro-Cuban music. More »

Famine: 'Hundreds of thousands of kids could die'

DADAAB, Kenya - Hundreds of thousands of Somali children could die in East Africa's famine unless more help arrives, a top U.S. official warned Monday in the starkest death toll prediction yet. To highlight the crisis, the wife of Vice President Joe Biden visited a refugee camp filled with hungry Somalis. More »

Haiti lawmakers reject 2nd pick for PM

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Haitian lawmakers rejected President Michel Martelly's second pick for prime minister last week, delivering a major blow to the new leader as he struggles to get a government in place almost three months after taking office. More »