SAN FRANCISCO, UNITED STATES- Amazon on Monday said it will start paying writers of e-books on its Kindle Unlimited and Kindle Owner's Lending Library services based on how many pages are read...

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM- Princess Anne on Sunday helped to recreate the moment, 200 years ago, that official news of Britain's victory against Napoleon at Waterloo reached the royal family. Replicas...

PARIS, FRANCE, Joshua Melvin- A rare 3,400-year-old Egyptian burial shroud fetched 374,000 euros ($426,000) at auction in Paris Thursday, on the latest leg of a journey that has seen it passed from a...

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES- James Salter, who died Friday at 90, had a small but exquisite literary output, earning him distinction as a contemporary American master. Salter long craved but never...

ANKARA, TURKEY, Fulya Ozerkan / Stuart Williams in Istanbul- A controversial book claiming to expose the extent of the rift between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his predecessor Abdullah Gul has...

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES- Jennie Matthew- They camped out overnight, arrived in trains caught at dawn and devoured the first pages on the sidewalk. Crazed fans mobbed a New York bookstore Thursday to...

LOS ANGELES, UNITED STATES- The fearsome "Jurassic Park" dinosaurs have done it again, gobbling up the competition to score the biggest worldwide box office opening weekend ever with the latest...

SANAA, YEMEN, Jamal al-Jabiri- UNESCO condemned the destruction Friday of ancient houses described as a "jewel" of Islamic urban landscape in an alleged Saudi-led air strike on the Yemeni capital's...

LEIPZIG, GERMANY, Eloi Rouyer- The best-known portrait of German composer Johann Sebastian Bach was welcomed back in his home city in an emotional ceremony Friday after an odyssey sparked when the...