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Book of interviews with future pope out April 30
A book of interviews with the future Pope Francis will be coming out in English at the end of the month. "Pope Francis: Conversations with Jorge ...
UK TV pulls terrorist satire after Boston bombings
A British television channel is pulling a comedy about a group of hapless terrorists from its schedule in the wake of the deadly Boston Marathon ...
Luxury brand Burberry reports strong sales
Fashion company Burberry reported an 11 percent increase in sales for the fourth quarter, as China and Hong Kong buyers continued to snap up the ...
Art crashes into authority in play about Ai Weiwei
Ai Weiwei appears to be standing in front of a London theater, which would be some trick, even for the provocative and unpredictable Chinese artist.
Carnival says it will pay US for disabled ships
Carnival Corp. said Monday it will repay the U.S. government an unspecified amount for the costs to taxpayers of responses to disabling accidents on ...
Zadie Smith on Granta best young novelists list
Newcomer Taiye Selasi and established best-seller Zadie Smith have been named to Granta magazine's list of best young British novelists — a ...
Heir to Johnson & Johnson wealth buried in Poland
Barbara Piasecka Johnson, a former maid who married the American heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune, was buried Monday in her hometown in Poland ...
Paris' Crillon hotel to sell furniture, bathrobes
One of Paris' most elegant hotels is selling off everything from its front desk to the bathrobes that snuggled the rich and famous. The Hotel de ...
London School of Economics denounces BBC tactics
One of Britain's leading academic institutions, the London School of Economics, is accusing the BBC of putting students at risk by using them as cover ...
Reptiles, insects, otter die in Scotland zoo fire
A fire has claimed the lives of reptiles, insects and a male otter at the Five Sisters Zoo in Scotland. Officials said Sunday the blaze started in the ...
Milan show mixes design, fashion, architecture
Bathrooms that beg indulgence. Tiles that reduce pollution. Lighting that mimics a rainbow. Extravagance, social consciousness and innovation are ...
Pope faces tough decisions as Vatican reforms loom
Pope Francis has spent much of his first month as pope charming ordinary Catholics with his ordinary yet extraordinary papal ways and making clear he ...
Brits, Americans feud over world's smallest park
The British and the Americans are quarreling — tongue in cheek — over territory again, this time over who has the world's smallest park. One, in ...
Bosnian toothless gypsy's unlikely accolade
People in this Gypsy village say they will never forget the night they almost fell off their chairs two months ago. Did they really hear the elegant ...
Angry UK 'Apprentice' winner loses job lawsuit
A winner of the British version of "The Apprentice" has lost a lawsuit over her claim she was forced out of the job she won on the show.
Warsaw Ghetto memorial reflects a changing Poland
Almost nothing remains of the old Warsaw Ghetto: a few buildings here and there, a synagogue, some fragments of a brick wall. The rest was blown up ...
In UK, aristocrats still face 'Downton' dilemma
Viscount Timothy Torrington's story reads like a real-life version of "Downton Abbey," the hit period drama about the family of an earl who has no ...
Former curling coach appointed British team chief
The man who coached Britain's women to curling gold in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City has been appointed as Britain's chef de mission for ...
Cecil hits out at contents of biography
Esteemed British racecourse trainer Henry Cecil has hit out at a soon-to-be-published biography that contains "unhappy and difficult phases" of his ...
Rare Russian vases sell for $2.7M in private sale
Randy Buttram never gave much thought to the two 4½-foot tall ornate vases that graced the elegant main entrance of his grandparents' Oklahoma City ...
5 free things in Romania's capital, Bucharest
It was founded by a shepherd, according to local legend, and was later nicknamed the Paris of the East. But Bucharest's idyllic roots and elegant ...
Nominees announced for English translation prize
A novel by Romanian-born German Nobel laureate Herta Muller is among the finalists for prizes given for best English language translations of fiction ...
Louvre workers walk off job over pickpockets
The Louvre was closed Wednesday after its workers walked off their jobs to protest what is said to be a rising problem of pickpockets haunting the ...
Correction: Israel-Struggling Sect story
In a story March 17 about eastern European brides joining the Holy Land's dwindling Samaritan community, The Associated Press misspelled the name of ...
UK National Theatre chief to step down in 2015
The widely praised chief of Britain's National Theatre says he will leave his post in two years. Nicholas Hytner plans to step down from one of the ...