LONDON:

Variety

The cause of singer

death this week is unclear after an initial autopsy and more tests are needed, British police said on Friday.

“A post mortem examination was carried out yesterday as part of the investigation into the death of George Michael,” Thames Valley police said.

“The cause of death is inconclusive and further tests will now be carried out. The results of these tests are unlikely to be known for several weeks,” they added in a statement.

British singer Michael, who became one of the pop idols of the 1980s with Wham! and then forged a career as a successful solo artist with sometimes sexually provocative lyrics, died at his home in southern England on Sunday. He was 53.

Street artist

has paid tribute with a mural of the Wham! singer, who died on Sunday aged 53. The artwork near a graffiti park in

in east London, features three images of the “Faith” singer clutching a jacket next to the words “Never gonna dance again”, a lyric from Michael’s single “Careless Whisper”.

People stopped on Thursday to take photographs of the painting, which took four hours to complete.

“So many people stopped as I was painting it. It got a great reaction,” Pegasus, who said he had been inspired by Michael, told the Evening Standard newspaper. (RTRS)

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who helped create the hugely popular Kinder Surprise chocolate eggs for children, died in Italy on Thursday aged 83, his foundation said.

Salice had been undergoing treatment for a stroke in a hospital in the northern Italian town of Pavia, his Color Your Life foundation and Italian media reports said Friday.

He joined the Ferrero food group in 1960 and went on to become right-hand man to company boss a visionary who invented the Nutella chocolate and hazelnut spread and who died in 2015.

In the 1970s, the chocolate baron was seeking a means to get around the seasonal nature of Easter eggs and find a use for the manufacturing moulds that served no purpose for much of the year.

The outcome was the Kinder Surprise, a chocolate egg containing little plastic parts of toys to be assembled by children. The contents of the capsules inside the eggs varied widely and the success of the product was swift and lasting. (AFP)