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International press
Reef could provide clues to evolution: Australian scientists
2010-02-24
- AFP
Greenland's ice cap melting faster than expected: experts
2010-02-24
- AFP
Canadian polka king decries Grammy snub
2010-02-24
- AFP
The emotional housekeeping of the world
2010-02-24
- Christopher Tayler-The Gaurdian
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Books
Book to aid Haiti quake victims goes on sale - 2010-03-04
WASHINGTON - A book featuring short stories contributed by authors from around the world with the profits going to victims of the Haiti earthquake went on sale on Wednesday.
The project, "100...
Toibin favourite to win Britain's Costa book award - 2010-01-04
LONDON - Irish author Colm Toibin is favourite to win the 30,000-pound Costa Book of the Year award after Monday clinching the best novel category for his work "Brooklyn," observers said.
The...
Comic-book stories show another Africa - 2009-12-23
ABIDJAN, Evelyne Aka - Marguerite Abouet's hugely popular series of books, centred on the life of a young woman in a cheerful Ivory Coast suburb, show an Africa far from stereotypes of war and...
Rare Charles Darwin book found in toilet in Britain - 2009-11-23
LONDON - A first edition of Charles Darwin's seminal "On the Origin of Species" will be sold this week after it was found in a family's toilet in southern Britain, an auction house said Sunday....
'Unfriend' is New Oxford American word of the year - 2009-11-17
WASHINGTON - The New Oxford American Dictionary named "unfriend" -- as in deleting someone as a friend on a social network such as Facebook -- its word of the year on Monday.
Oxford University...
Palin receives 1.25 million dollar payment for book - 2009-10-28
ANCHORAGE - Former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin received a 1.25 million dollar advance payment for her upcoming memoir, official records showed Tuesday.
Financial records filed by...
World's biggest book fair gets Chinese imprint - 2009-10-15
FRANKFURT, William Ickes- Chinese writers, publishers and artists backed by Beijing and others were set to mark the world's largest book fair Wednesday with hundreds of stories from the most populous...
Portugal orders sales ban against 'Maddie' book - 2009-09-10
LISBON - A Portuguese court on Wednesday banned sales of a former police officer's book on the disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann, her parents' lawyer said.
In his book "A Verdade da...
US libraries hit back over challenges to kids books - 2009-09-07
WASHINGTON, Sara Hussein - For some it is the heartwarming tale of two male penguins raising a chick together, but children's book "And Tango Makes Three" is also one of the most controversial texts...
Heavyweights Byatt and Coetzee on Booker longlist - 2009-09-03
LONDON- Literary heavyweights AS Byatt and JM Coetzee were named on the 13-strong longlist for the 2009 Booker Prize, released on Tuesday.
Both previous winners of the prestigious award, Byatt was...
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