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Hit It - What's No. 1 On World's Music Charts

Hit It - What's No. 1 On World's Music Charts

Here are some of the songs topping the charts from music hot spots around the world.

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On Thursday, Paul McCartney played a surprise concert in New York's Times Square, after announcing it only minutes before on Twitter.

Come on down to Times Square... It's all going to be happening there!

— Paul McCartney (@PaulMcCartney) October 10, 2013

The 71-year-old Beatle played four tracks off his new album, "New," set to be released on Monday. The gig took place on a mobile stage placed on a truck, which then drove away when Sir Paul McCartney finished playing.

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Welcome to Wednesday, where Volodymyr Zelensky formally invites Xi Jinping to Kyiv, top French banks raided in fraud probe, and Amsterdam is trying to keep British bachelor parties at bay. Meanwhile, Chinese-language media The Initium shines a light on the quiet emergence of China's gay senior community.

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