11.   Selected for the prize in creative arts and moral sciences was music composer Iannis Xenakis of France.

12.   The centrist News Party, led by flamboyant pop music composer Raimonds Pauls, is also expected to score above the five percent threshold required to win parliamentary seats.

13.   The killing of a wealthy Indian film producer and music magnate last month was allegedly organized by a music composer who felt threatened, police said Monday.

14.   One of the dead was believed to be Onno Tunc, a leading Turkish pop music composer.