"Even though people react when they see a robot, you can tell people are not moved by it," Hirata told AFP. "I wanted to create a situation in which a robot could move an audience." In Kafka's 1915...
WARSAW, POLAND- Nobel literature laureate Wislawa Szymborska's earliest poems will hit the shelves Wednesday in her native Poland in a posthumous collection of mostly never-before-seen work, her...
FRANKFURT, GERMANY- Germany's book industry is ready to face down competition from online retail giant Amazon, its head said Tuesday, amid scrutiny of the US company's tax dealings, pricing disputes...
PARIS, FRANCE, Stéphanie Lerouge- Visitors at the Eiffel Tower were left giddy Monday as the mayor unveiled a new glass floor on Paris's best-known landmark, offering millions of tourists another...
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN- Norwegian scientists May-Britt and Edvard Moser, co-winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine on Monday, join a century-old tradition of couples whose marriages may have propelled...
MINA, SAUDI ARABIA, Lynne al-Nahhas- Raising his arm, Yousef Ali hugs his elderly father in front of one of Islam's holiest sites as they grin for a selfie -- a craze that has hit this year's hajj....
BUENOS AIRES- The cast and crew of British motoring show "Top Gear" have fled Argentina after furious residents hurled stones at a BBC car bearing a license plate which appeared to reference the 1982...
LONDON- Seven thousand private donations have helped save a historic collection of Wedgwood pottery in Britain by raising £2.74 million (3.50 million euros, $4.38 million), with a third of the money...
STOCKHOLM, Hugues Honore- What brings more fame than accepting the Nobel Prize? Not accepting it -- as Jean-Paul Sartre showed with a celebrated "non" to the world's most prestigious award exactly 50...
BERLIN, Kate Millar- Some of the world's top authors will thrash out hot political issues at the world's biggest international book fair opening in Germany Tuesday. The writers will brainstorm at the...
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