STOCKHOLM- Stieg Larsson, author of the bestselling crime trilogy "Millennium", also researched the unsolved murder of Olof Palme, a report said Tuesday, three days before the 28th anniversary of the...
BRUSSELS- An ambitious government-funded exhibition which opened in Brussels on Tuesday is designed to raise awareness of the living conditions faced by Belgians during the country's often brutal...
HOLLYWOOD, Michael Thurston- The race for Oscars glory is entering its final week in Hollywood and suspense is building, as one of the most crowded fields in decades battles for Academy Awards gold....
PARIS, Helen Rowe- Police chief Camille Verhoeven is diminutive, pugnacious and brilliant. The shambolic Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg prefers intuition over logic. Victor Legris juggles bookselling with...
WASHINGTON- Steve Jobs, Snoopy, John Lennon and gay rights icon Harvey Milk will likely soon share a distinct American honor: their own US postage stamps. Well, Snoopy will probably have to share the...
BEIJING, Felicia Sonmez- China has long sought to recover treasures it says were looted by foreigners, but a tycoon's $1.6 million deal for the return of seven white marble columns from Norway is...
NEW YORK- Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who died this month from an apparent heroin overdose, left all his money to his long-time girlfriend and their young son, US media said Wednesday. Under the...
HAVANA- Cuba has released to US researchers copies of more than 2,000 documents related to Ernest Hemingway, media reported Tuesday in Havana, the American literary giant's home during the 1940s and...
OTTAWA- Acclaimed short story writer Mavis Gallant died Tuesday morning at her Paris apartment, her publishers said. She was 91. "Without exaggeration she was one of the finest writers Canada has...
LONDON- Queen Elizabeth II hosted the cream of British cinema at Buckingham Palace on Monday, a day after her grandson starred at the Bafta's, the highlight of the industry's calendar. Guests...
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