Reuters Lifestyle & Entertainment, March 17, 1600 GMT/1100 ET

Contact info for Reuters Entertainment & Lifestyle editors Jill Serjeant in New York +1 646 223 5968; Piya Sinha-Roy in Los Angeles +1 213 955 6721 ------------------------------------------------------- ENTERTAINMENT Selena Gomez reveals Instagram addiction, low self-esteem NEW YORK - Pop star Selena Gomez said she canceled her world tour last year and went to therapy because she was depressed, anxious and "my self-esteem was shot." (PEOPLE-SELENAGOMEZ/ (PIX), moved, 283 words) Former 'Power Rangers' actor admits killing roommate with sword LOS ANGELES - An actor best known for his role in the "Power Rangers" children's television series who prosecutors said stabbed his roommate to death with a sword during an argument pleaded guilty on Thursday to manslaughter. (POWERRANGERS-CRIME/, moved, 207 words) LIFESTYLE Missile row drives Korean culture underground in China SHANGHAI/SEOUL - Cai Yufang, 21, is a big fan of Korean television dramas like "Shopping King Louie", a show about a profligate chaebol heir who loses his memory and learns the value of love and labour from a sweet, simple country girl. (SOUTHKOREA-CHINA/CULTURE (PIX), by Adam Jourdan and Joyce Lee, 871 words) Egypt says ancient colossus pulled from slum likely not Ramses CAIRO - A massive eight-metre statue discovered in the ground water of a Cairo slum this month is likely not a depiction of the revered Pharaoh Ramses II as first believed, Antiquities Minister Khaled Al-Anani said on Thursday. (EGYPT-ARCHAEOLOGY/ (PIX, TV), moved, 273 words) Giant satirical puppets go on display in Spanish 'Fallas' fiesta VALENCIA - Satirical effigies of United States President Donald Trump, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and footballer Cristiano Ronaldo went on display on Thursday for Spain's Fallas festival in the Mediterranean port city of Valencia.(SPAIN-CULTURE/FALLAS (TV, PIX), moved, 138 words) Fashion house Givenchy names Waight Keller as artistic director PARIS - Givenchy named Clare Waight Keller as its new artistic director on Thursday, becoming the first woman at the creative helm of the French fashion house founded by Hubert de Givenchy in 1952. (GIVENCHY-DIRECTOR/ (UPDATE 1, PIX), moved, by Dominique Vidalon, 240 words) Spring in the air, China's pigeon racers give birds their meds BEIJING - Guarding against avian flu, which has forced a mass cull of birds in China, pigeon fancier Wang Jincang paid out nearly $400 to get his 200 racing pigeons vaccinated and fortified for the onset of the spring racing season. (CHINA-PIGEONRACING/ (PIX), by Muyu Xu and Ryan Woo, 331 words) Ex-lawyer gets 40 years for California abduction first deemed hoax A Harvard-educated lawyer was sentenced on Thursday to 40 years in prison for a high-profile 2015 California kidnapping that drew comparisons to the film "Gone Girl," ending a bizarre abduction saga that police first dismissed as a hoax. (CALIFORNIA-KIDNAPPING/ (moved), by Tom James, 395 words) Sierra Leone pastor discovers 706-carat diamond FREETOWN - A Christian pastor has found one of the world's largest uncut diamonds - weighing 706 carats -- in Sierra Leone's eastern Kono region. (LEONE-DIAMONDS/ (PIX, TV), moved, by Umaru Fofana, 291 words) Breathe easy: nose shape was influenced by local climate WASHINGTON - The human nose, in all its glorious forms, is one of our most distinctive characteristics, whether big, little, broad, narrow or somewhere in between. Scientists are now sniffing out some of the factors that drove the evolution of the human proboscis. (SCIENCE-NOSE/ (PIX), moved, by Will Dunham, 401 words) --------------------------------------------------------

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