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English speakers are no stranger to using certain German words when speaking Englishschadenfreude and kindergarten being perhaps the most obvious.The process is possibly even more advanced in reverse.Many Germans are proud of being able to speak English well, and the Berlin Wall's fall in 1989 only accelerated the process, as a redefined international community with English as the main global language beckoned.

In the aftermath of Richard Sharp's resignation as chair of the BBC and Boris Johnson's humiliation as the man who caused the defenestration of yet another who got too close, there is a warning to be voiced: be careful what you wish for.Sharp was obviously and hopelessly conflicted by his failure to declare a connection to an 800,000 loan guarantee for Johnson during his interview for the prime post.

This is not a dog toy.The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a case Wednesday pitting the whiskey giant with a dog toy maker who parodies the brand.Scott Olson/Getty Images At the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday, one side will be talking about its iconic liquor bottle as its valued trademark.The other side will be talking about parody and free expression.

Shane McAnally's boffo songwriting career got off to a slow start, but by 2013 he and his frequent writing partner Brandy Clark were finally having success.The Band Perry's Better Dig Two and Miranda Lambert's Mama's Broken Heart, both co-written by McAnally and Clark, reached No. 1 and No. 2 on the Billboard country chart.

A podcaster returns to her boarding school decades after a classmate was murdered to rehash the crime.NPR's Scott Simon talks with Rebecca Makkai about her novel, "I Have Some Questions For You." SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Thalia Keith dies many times in Rebecca Makkai's latest novel.A high school senior takes a plunge into the school pool in the spring of 1995, bashes her head, and drowns.

Picture a bottle of Jack Daniel's whiskey.Now imagine someone making a poop joke about it - the whiskey is brown, after all.Not too funny, but should bad jokes be against the law?Does it make a difference if the joke teller does it for profit?That's the question coming before the U.S. Supreme Court, and a wrong answer could turn trademark law upside down.

By Alli Rosenbloom | CNN Austin Majors, a former child actor best known for his role on NYPD Blue, has died, according to the Los Angeles Medical Examiner's office.He was 27.Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz), left, holds son Theo (Austin Majors) in a 1999 episode of NYPD Blue His sister, Kali Majors-Raglin, confirmed the news to CNN in an email.

Brad William Henke, a former N.F.L. player who later turned to acting and became known for his role as a prison guard on Orange Is the New Black among other appearances across a 25-year career in film and television, died on Tuesday.He was 56.His death was confirmed by his manager, Matt DelPiano, who did not give the location or an exact cause but said the actor died in his sleep.

A man dressed in Native American clothing paddles a canoe toward a tableau of environmental degradation: waters strewn with trash, a person throwing garbage out of a car window on a traffic-choked highway and spewing smokestacks on the horizon.A percussion-driven score dramatically resolves with a close-up shot of the man shedding a single tear.

Donning a sassy piece of silk lingerie, a male model grooves to the beat and forms a heart shape with his fingers during a livestreaming session on Douyin, one of China's most popular video-sharing platforms.His modeling performance is the latest illustration of the kind of entrepreneurial innovation sometimes needed to bypass China's rigorous internet censorship, a dragnet that can ensnare seemingly innocuous activities in this case retailers selling women's underwear online.

Taylor Swift will not be in attendance at the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday that will address Ticketmaster's fiasco managing her The Eras Tour' concert ticket sales.A lesser-known musician, Clyde Lawrence, will instead speak on behalf of artists.The hearing titled That's the Ticket: Promoting Competition and Protecting Consumers in Live Entertainment, comes after legions of Taylor Swift fans couldn't purchase presale tickets through Ticketmaster in November and resellers have started selling limited tickets for upwards of $45,000.

Arthur Duncan, who kept tap dancing visible and relevant across the country on television when most had relegated it to the past and who also broke ground as a Black entertainer, has died at 97.
Duncan was best known for his 18-year run on "The Lawrence Welk Show" as the only Black cast member, and is widely regarded as a trailblazer for a mainstream television variety show.

A24, the independent film and television studio barreling into next weekend's Academy Awards with a boatload of Oscar nominations, is making an unexpected move into live performance, purchasing a small Off Broadway theater in New York's West Village.The studio, which until now has focused on making movies, television shows and podcasts, has purchased the Cherry Lane Theater for $10 million, and plans to present plays as well as other forms of live entertainment there, in addition to the occasional film screening.

Annie Wersching arrives at the FOX Winter All-Star Party in Pasadena, Calif., on Jan. 11, 2010.Chris Pizzello/AP Actor Annie Wersching, best known for playing FBI agent Renee Walker in the series "24" and providing the voice for Tess in the video game "The Last of Us," has died.She was 45.

British actor Julian Sands has been identified as the hiker who went missing in the California mountains last week.The 65-year-old, known for his role in the Oscar-nominated 1985 film A Room with a View,has been missing in the Mount Baldy area since Friday 13 January, according to authorities.He was reported missing by his wife, writer Evgenia Citkowitz, on Friday evening and was thought to have been somewhere on the popular Baldy Bowl Trail in the San Gabriel Mountains.