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....

STOCKHOLM- The Swedish soprano Elisabeth Soderstrom has died at the age of 82, the Royal Swedish Opera announced on Saturday. She died in a Stockholm hospital on Friday morning. During a career...

NEW YORK, Sebastian Smith - The rhinestone-encrusted glove worn by pop icon Michael Jackson for his first "moonwalk" dance in 1983 sold Saturday for 350,000 dollars at a frenzied auction in New...

LOS ANGELES- A former boyfriend of pop star Britney Spears was sentenced to 45 days in prison on Friday for fleeing the scene of an accident earlier this year. Adnan Ghalib, 37, a photographer who...

LONDON- Andrew Lloyd Webber, the composer of such hit musicals as "The Phantom of the Opera" and "Cats", was back in hospital on Wednesday after developing an infection from an operation for prostate...

MUMBAI- An Indian woman successfully divorced her husband after he refused to allow her to watch television soap operas, a report said Tuesday. The Daily News and Analysis newspaper said the...

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...

LOS ANGELES- Hollywood presented its first Oscars of the awards season late Saturday, honoring screen acting legend Lauren Bacall with a statuette for her life's work in film. "I can't believe...

LOS ANGELES- North American film-goers favored the apocalypse over Christmas this weekend as disaster flick "2012" beat Disney's "A Christmas Carol" to top the box office, according to early...