The AP editors said the death of singer Michael Jackson in June was also among the top news stories.

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I the singer of Adamic songs" he said it directly "Through the new garden of the West, the great city is calling, as Adam early in the morning, walking forth from the bower, refreshed with sleep; behold me, where I pass, hear my voice."

我是个为亚当的歌曲吟诵的歌手",他直言不讳地说,"穿越西方新的花园,这个伟大的城市在呼唤,正如亚当在一天清晨,由树荫下走出,睡眠使他精神饱满,看着我走过吧,聆听我的声音"

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He told the singer: "My daughter said if I didn't say 'hi' to you I'd be in trouble, so 'hi' from my daughter."

VOA: special.2011.01.07

She said: "They get the singer, but they are not going to get the woman."

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She later said that she was both a singer and a teacher.

VOA: special.2009.04.19

With the singer's golden casket in front of the stage, Pastor Lucious Smith said Jackson was, above all,part of a loving family.

VOA: standard.2009.07.07

He said the singer was on a bed and was unconscious.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

One said the Jackson family was regarded as royalty when she was growing up, but the singer's many plastic surgeries made some believe he hoped to obscure his black identity.

VOA: standard.2009.06.28