Grammy Nominees 2015: The Full List

Artists from Taylor Swift to Beyonce to Sam Smith are up for Grammys this year.

Earlier today, the nominees for the 57th annual Grammy awards were announced–and as usual, the list included musicians ranging from relative unknowns to some of the world’s top-earning superstars.

Newcomer Sam Smith led the way alongside mainstays Beyoncé and Pharrell Williams (six nominations each), while others including Taylor Swift and Jay Z garnered multiple nods. As always, a few unusual entries made the cut, from James Franco (Best Spoken Word Album for Actors Anonymous) to Malala Yousafzai (Best Children’s Album for I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up For Education And Changed The World).

Muhammad Ali hospitalized with pneumonia

Boxing legend Muhammad Ali has been hospitalized with a mild case of pneumonia,

Ali, 72, was in stable condition as of Sunday, a family spokesperson told the AP. The illness was caught early and "the prognosis is good," the spokesperson added.

Ali is also battling Parkinson's disease.

No further details — including where Ali is hospitalized — have been released.

Ex-American President George H.W. Bush hospitalized

Former President George H.W. Bush has been taken to a Houston hospital after experiencing a shortness of breath. Spokesman Jim McGrath said in statement that Bush was taken by ambulance to Houston Methodist Hospital on Tuesday evening as a precaution.

McGrath says the 90-year-old Bush "will be held for observation, again as a precaution."

Bush spent nearly two months in the same hospital and was discharged in January 2013 after treatment for a bronchitis-related cough and other health issues.

Bush, who can no longer use his legs, most recently appeared seated in a wheelchair at an event in November at Texas A&M University with his son, former President George W. Bush.

In June, the elder Bush celebrated his 90th birthday by making a tandem parachute jump near his summer home in Maine.

Officer in Missouri (USA) shot, killed man who pulled gun

A suburban St. Louis police officer shot and killed a man who pointed a gun at him at a gas station late Tuesday, police said.

A crowd of about 100 people were gathered early Wednesday at the scene in Berkeley, Missouri, a few miles from Ferguson, where a white police officer fatally shot black 18-year-old Michael Brown in August.

According to a statement from St. Louis County police spokesman Sgt. Brian Schellman, a Berkeley police officer was conducting a routine business check at a gas station around 11:15 p.m. Tuesday when he saw two men and approached them.

One of the men pulled a handgun and pointed it at the officer, Schellman said. The officer fired several shots, striking and fatally wounding the man.

The second man fled, and the dead man's handgun has been recovered, according to Schellman.

The St. Louis County Police Department is handling the investigation, and no further details about the incident were immediately available.

Authorities did not immediately identify the man who was shot. But the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that a woman at the scene, Toni Martin, said he was her son, 18-year-old Antonio Martin.

Toni Martin told the newspaper that her son was with his girlfriend at the time of the shooting.

The protesters who gathered early Wednesday milled around the gas pumps at the station, some taunting and yelling at police officers.

Some had strands of yellow police-line tape draped around their neck, with others using it as a headband.

Authorities from multiple agencies, some in riot gear, stood among the protesters.

Across the street, another gas station's glass doors were shattered, and police were standing outside the door, turning people away.

Orlando Brown, 36, of nearby St. Charles was among the protesters. He said he didn't have all the details about the shooting but said he wondered if it was a case of police aggression.

"I understand police officers have a job and have an obligation to go home to their families at the end of the night," he said. "But do you have to treat every situation with lethal force? ... It's not a racial issue, or black or white. It's wrong or right."

Brown said he was pepper-sprayed during the protest as police tried to separate him from a friend whose hand he was holding. He said his friend was arrested for failing to disperse.

Neither Schellman nor Berkeley police could immediately confirm that pepper spray was used or that arrests were made.

Brown's death led to weeks of protests and some looting in the St. Louis area, actions that were renewed last month when a grand jury chose not to indict Officer Darren Wilson.