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LONDON (AP) — Last week, Britain crowned a king. This week, it will help bestow Europe’s pop crown. The Eurovision Song Contest is returning to the U.K. for the first time in 25 years, but the heart of the glitzy music competition will be in Ukraine.

NEW YORK (AP) — Fox Corp. swung to a third quarter loss, weighed down by Fox News' nearly $800 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems.

Top New Shows (US): 1. Flipping the Bird: Elon vs. Twitter, Wondery 2. Pod Save the UK, Crooked Media 3. The Official Love & Death Podcast, HBO Max 4. Rise N’ Crime, OH NO MEDIA 5. BRAMTEA, Bramty Juliette and Luis Nestor 6.

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. The 23rd Midnight by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown and Company) 2. Happy Place by Emily Henry (Penguin Publishing Group) 3.

Top Movie Purchases and Rentals (US): 1. Dungeons & Dragons Honor Among Thieves 2. Avatar: The Way of Water 3. Renfield 4. The Pope’s Exorcist 5. Beautiful Disaster 6. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania 7. A Man Called Otto 8. Plane 9.

Matthias Pintscher will become music director of the Kansas City Symphony for the 2024-25 season, offered the job just five days after conducting the orchestra for the first time. His appointment on a five-year contract was announced Tuesday.

GENEVA (AP) — Christie’s is auctioning a staggering 700 pieces of jewelry from the collection of the late Heidi Horten, an Austrian heiress whose German husband built a retail empire starting in the 1930s — in part from department stores and other as

TORONTO — A member of Parliament and a celebrated playwright are among the nominees for the Trillium Book Award, Ontario's top literary prize.

NEW YORK (AP) — The next novel from million-selling author Kristin Hannah is a war story set in the 1960s. St. Martin's Press announced Tuesday that Hannah's “The Women” will be published next winter, Feb. 6.

NEW YORK (AP) — Instincts about the strategic significance of the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol led a team of Associated Press journalists there just as Russians were about to lay siege. It proved to be a fateful decision.