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The Cranberries lead singer Dolores O'Riordan has died suddenly at the age of 46, her publicist has confirmed. The Irish musician, originally from Limerick, led the band to international success in the 90s with singles including Linger and Zombie. A statement from her publicist said: "The lead singer with the Irish band The Cranberries was in London for a short recording session. "No further details are available at this time." A Metropolitan Police spokesperson said the police were called to a hotel in Park Lane at 09:05 GMT on Monday, where "a woman in her mid-40s" was pronounced dead at the scene. The death is, at this stage, unexplained. Her current band mates in The Cranberries - Noel Hogan, Fergal Lawler, and Mike Hogan - paid tribute to the lead singer on social media. The message said: "She was an extraordinary talent and we feel very privileged to been part of her life from 1989." Her publicist added: "Family members are devastated to hear the news and have requested privacy at this very difficult time." The Cranberries shot to international fame with their 1993 debut album Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? and went on to sell over 40 million records worldwide. In 2017 The Cranberries announced a tour including dates in Europe, the UK, and the US. However, in May - shortly into the European tour - the group had to cancel the remainder of the European dates as a result of O'Riordan's health issues. The official Cranberries website cited "medical reasons associated with a back problem" preventing singer Dolores O'Riordan from performing. But just before Christmas O'Riordan had posted on Facebook saying she was "feeling good" and had done her "first bit of gigging in months", leading fans to believe she would soon be performing again. O'Riordan tweeted a picture of herself with her cat to fans in early January saying she was "off to Ireland". O'Riordan split from her husband of 20 years, Don Burton in 2014. She and Burton, who is the former tour manager of Duran Duran, have three children together. The singer was arrested over an alleged air rage incident in 2014 but was released without charge, after a stewardess was reportedly attacked on a flight from New York to Shannon, County Clare. O'Riordan was taken to hospital in Limerick after being questioned by police and later discharged. Two years later, O'Riordan was ordered to pay 6,000 euros (£5,300) to charity for headbutting a police officer after an alleged air rage incident. She was later diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2015, which she said explained why she was in a "manic" state on the plane. In an interview in 2013 she said that she had been abused as a child, which led to her developing an eating disorder, and eventually she suffered a breakdown. She described her family, especially her children, as her "salvation". Irish president Michael D Higgins called her death "a big loss", and added O'Riordan's work with The Cranberries "had an immense influence on rock and pop music in Ireland and internationally". Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar said she was probably "Limerick's greatest ever rock star", and that her band "captured all of the angst that came with your teenage years". 'Unforgettable voice' The Kinks guitarist and singer Dave Davies paid tribute to O'Riordan, saying he was "shocked" and that he had seen her "a couple weeks before Christmas". He added "she seemed happy and well". A book of condolence will be opened in her home town of Limerick on Tuesday, at the city council's headquarters. O'Riordan, the youngest of seven children, had written her own songs since she was 12. She joined the band while still in her teens, after spotting an advert for a female singer for rock band The Cranberry Saw Us. Later changed to The Cranberries, the band's most successful tracks include Linger (1993), Zombie (1994) - a protest song about bombings that took place in relation to the conflict in Northern Ireland - as well as No Need To Argue (1994) and To the Faithful Departed (1996). O'Riordan briefly pursued a solo career after the band split in 2003, before The Cranberries reunited in 2009.

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WELLINGTON (AFP) - - Edmund Hillary, who climbed to international fame as the first person to conquer Everest, the world's highest mountain, died Friday aged 88. The plain-speaking former New Zealand beekeeper became a household name after he and Nepalese guide Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Everest on May 29, 1953, standing atop a peak that had defied mountaineers for decades. "Well, we knocked the bxxxxxd off," he said on the way back down. News of the British led expedition's historic achievement was announced in London the day young Elizabeth II was crowned queen, only adding to the patriotic fervour of Coronation Day. Hillary was always modest about his achievements and fame. "I have moderate abilities but I combine these with a good deal of determination and I rather like to succeed," he said. Hillary was born in Auckland on July 20, 1919, and as a youth showed no hint of the strength and skill that would make him one of the most famous mountaineers and explorers in the world. On seeing a scrawny Hillary in his first year of high school, his physical education teacher muttered in despair: "What will they send me next?" "I never got over this sense of physical inferiority," Hillary admitted in his autobiography. He was never meant to be the first to the top of Everest. Other team members got the first crack at the 8,848-metre (29,028-foot) summit but were thwarted several hundred feet short, hampered by fatigue and low on oxygen. After a night of little rest, Hillary and Tenzing made their second try, and the lanky New Zealander led the tricky trek up to the summit. To get around controversy, they said they had reached the top together. It was many years before Tenzing revealed that Hillary had actually got there first. "So there it is," Tenzing wrote in his book, "the answer to the great mystery." "The names of Hillary and Tenzing went instantly into all languages as the names of heroes," Jan Morris, the British historian and journalist who accompanied the expedition, wrote in Time magazine. "Hillary and Tenzing were two cheerful and courageous fellows doing what they liked doing," she said. Hillary was the only living New Zealander ever to appear on the country's currency, a national and worldwide hero who could have made a fortune from his historic ascent. Instead, he devoted much of his energy to his Himalayan Trust, which helped build schools, hospitals and clinics for the impoverished country of Nepal, which remained close to his heart. Alexa Johnston, who wrote Sir Edmund Hillary - An Extraordinary Life, said Hillary was complex but his defining characteristics were incredible persistence and generosity to others. "He's hard on himself and he can demand a lot from people but he is also not vindictive and he is able to forgive people if they don't measure up. "He's a driven man and he's been ambitious but he's also been incredibly ambitious for other people and particularly for the well-being of Sherpas and of course a commitment to human rights and social justice have been core to his approach to life as well." New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark said his humility and modesty represented something very important to New Zealanders. Hillary remained a restless adventurer who re-affirmed his ambitious streak four years later in 1957, when he joined the trans-Antarctic expedition of British explorer Vivien Fuchs. As Fuchs set off from one side of the continent, a group led by Hillary set off on tractors from the opposite side to set up supply depots and map the terrain for the second half of Fuchs' crossing. Hillary instead stole his thunder by defying the Briton's wishes and heading to the South Pole, becoming the leader of the first expedition to reach the pole by vehicle. In 1960, he led another Himalayan adventure, this time in search of proof of the mythical yeti or abominable snowman -- a topic of great interest since Tenzing had said his father had twice seen one. Among the sherpa community, tales of the yeti were common but Hillary had no success. He got sick mid-way through the expedition -- possibly due to some uncertain fishcakes prepared by his friend Peter Mulgrew -- and pulled out. In 1975, Hillary's wife and daughter were killed in a plane crash near Kathmandu while flying to join him on a Himalayan Trust project. Four years later in 1979, Mulgrew also died when a sightseeing plane crashed in Antarctica. Mulgrew's wife June travelled with Hillary to New Delhi when he was appointed New Zealand's ambassador to India in 1984 and they married five years later. Hillary always had strong views about Everest, which has seen more than 2,000 people reach the summit after his historic success more than half a century ago. "Having people pay 65,000 dollars and then be led up the mountain by a couple of experienced guides, I personally think, is far less attractive," he told the BBC in 2003. "It isn't really mountaineering at all." http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080111/tts-...ry-c1b2fc3.html

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