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Bucharest’s international music festival takes a modern turn  

BUCHAREST (Reuters) – One of Europe’s biggest classical music festivals, held in Romania’s capital city Bucharest, will increasingly showcase contemporary composers and performers from central and eastern Europe in the years ahead. For three weeks in September, Bucharest forgets some of Europe’s worst traffic jams and its crumbling infrastructure as locals and visitors alike pack concert halls and flock to outdoor performances. A pastry chain sells musical notation-shaped pretzels and fans tour the old city haunts of Romania’s most famous composer, George Enescu, after whom the biennial festival is named. Read More  

               

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Want to help after Harvey? A guide to donations

The recovery from Harvey will be long and expensive. Want to help? Local and national charities are asking for donations after the storm slammed Texas and Louisiana, leaving countless residents — and pets — displaced from their homes. While the urge to donate clothes and other supplies is natural, money is the best way to contribute during times of disaster, charities and philanthropy experts say. And donating directly through a website gets money to a charity faster than a text donation, even though the text might seem easier. Here’s how Read More

               

U.S. defense secretary arrives in Iraq on unannounced visit to meet Iraqi leaders  

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis arrived in Iraq on Tuesday, just days after the start of an offensive to take back the city of Tal Afar, to speak with Iraqi leaders about the next steps in the fight against Islamic State. Mattis has warned that the end of the militant group is far from close. Iraqi security forces launched an offensive to take back the city of Tal Afar on Sunday, their latest objective in the U.S.-backed campaign to defeat Islamic State militants, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi Read More  

               

Jerry Lewis, king of low-brow comedy and charity fundraiser, dies at 91  

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Jerry Lewis, the high prince of low-brow comedy on stage and in movies as well as a fund-raising powerhouse with his annual Labor Day telethon, died on Sunday at the age of 91, his family said. Lewis died of natural causes at his home in Las Vegas with his family by his side on Sunday morning, his family said in statement. He had been hospitalized for about five weeks beginning in early June for a urinary tract infection, keeping him from traveling to Toronto to appear Read More  

               

Ackman says owned stake in Hilton, a previously unnamed bet – world news headlines from reuters  

BOSTON (Reuters) – Investor William Ackman said on Wednesday his hedge fund had bought and sold a stake in Hilton Worldwide Holdings, identifying the portfolio company that recently earned him a double digit return. Ackman and one of his partners told investors on a conference call that they have long admired the hospitality company and made the investment last year as Hilton was trading at a temporarily depressed valuation. Pershing Square Capital Management owned a roughly 5 percent stake but sold out within the last two months, Ackman said, noting Read More