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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Beyoncé won album of the year for “Cowboy Carter” at Sunday's Grammys, delivering her — at last — the show’s elusive top award.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Feb. 9-15: Feb. 9: Actor Janet Suzman is 86. Actor-turned-politician Sheila James Kuehl (“The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis”) is 84. Singer Carole King is 83. Singer Barbara Lewis is 82. Actor Joe Pesci is 82.

PARIS (AP) — A Paris court found a filmmaker guilty of sexual assault on French actor Adèle Haenel when she was between 12 and 15 in the early 2000s, in the country’s first big #MeToo trial.

WEST ORANGE, N.J. (AP) — Along the long road from American icon to endangered species and back again, the bald eagle — the national bird of the United States, often seen against a clear blue sky — is having a moment.

NEW YORK (AP) — The new National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature i s a prolific, best-selling author of children's books who hopes to use his two-year term to promote the wonders of picture stories.

PARIS (AP) — A Paris court has found a filmmaker guilty of sexual assault on French actor Adele Haenel when she was between 12 and 15 in the early 2000s, in the country’s first big MeToo trial.

GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization chief asked global leaders to lean on Washington to reverse President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the U.N. health agency, insisting in a closed-door meeting with diplomats last week that the U.

BERLIN (AP) — German beer sales declined last year even as the country hosted the European Football Championship , continuing a long-term downward trend that has seen sales drop by more than 10% in the past decade to their lowest level since at least

All eyes at the Grammy Awards were on whether the most-nominated artist in the history of the telecast would finally walk away with the coveted album of the year trophy. She did. “We finally saw it happen,” host Trevor Noah said, almost in relief.

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Barbie Hsu, a Taiwanese actress who starred in the popular TV drama “Meteor Garden” that once swept Asia, died after contracting pneumonia triggered by the flu. She was 48.