LONDON,(AFP) - Leading figures from Britain's film industry paid tribute to Anthony Minghella on Saturday on the Isle of Wight, where the late Oscar-winning director grew up.
A year after his...
A trail-blazing anesthesiologist, whose research shaped pain-relief for millions around the world, has been fabricating data for more than a decade, a hospital where he once practiced claimed...
SAINT PETERSBURG, March 15, 2009 (AFP) - An Internet activist behind several anti-Kremlin social network groups has been committed to a psychiatric hospital against his will, a Russian opposition...
NEW YORK, (AFP) - A rare copy of the first Superman comic book sold for 317,200 dollars at auction Friday -- a super hero sized increase on the original 10 cents paid back in 1938.
Bids in the...
LONDON, March 14, 2009 (AFP) - Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty is to fly to Britain to visit her one-time reality TV nemesis Jade Goody, who is terminally ill with cancer, publicist Max Clifford said...
AUSTIN, March 14, 2009 (AFP) - Facebook is letting users of its flourishing social-networking community play together on the road by using Apple's popular iPhone and iPod Touch mobile devices....
GUADALAJARA, March 14, 2009 (AFP) - One of Mexico's first openly gay politicians is to contest mayoral elections in the country's second-biggest city this July.
Thirty-one-year-old Miguel Antonio...
Linden Lab chief executive Mark Kingdon shakes his head when he sees news stories heralding the demise of former Internet darling Second Life.
Reporters that rushed into Second Life to cover...
WASHINGTON, March 13, 2009 (AFP) - Dozens of popular children's bath products marketed in the United States contain two cancer-causing chemicals, a consumer safety watchdog group said in a report...
RIO DE JANEIRO, March 13, 2009 (AFP) - Brazilian bishops have said the excommunication of the mother and doctors of a nine-year-old girl who had an abortion after being raped was wrong and would not...
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