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Growing up in Tahiti, Anna-Bella Failloux saw first-hand the threat posed by mosquitoes: nearly a third of adults on the picturesque island once had swollen limbs from elephantiasis caused by their bites.

Tributes continue to pour in for jazz legend Abdullah Ibrahim.

Singer Bonnie Tyler, known for mega-hits "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and "Holding Out for a Hero," has come out of a coma following emergency surgery last month, her family said.

Named Adolph Johannes Brand when he was born in 1934 into Cape Town's cultural melting pot, he began piano lessons at the age of seven, influenced by his mother and grandmother.

American alt-pop singer and internet personality Oliver Tree was aboard one of two helicopters that collided Sunday mid-air in Brazil, leaving all six people aboard the aircraft dead, a police source told AFP.