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Prince Philip spends 92nd birthday in hospital
Queen Elizabeth II visited her husband, Prince Philip, at a London hospital on Monday, where he was spending his 92nd birthday recovering from abdominal surgery. Philip was "comfortable and in good spirits," Buckingham Palace officials said, but he will need about two months of convalescence following the surgery. Details of ...
Scottish fiction writer Iain Banks dies at 59
Scottish writer Iain Banks, who alternately wowed and disturbed readers with his dark jokes and narrative tricks, has died, his publisher said. He was 59. Banks, whose writing took readers from rural Scotland to the edge of space, announced in April that he was terminally ill with cancer and that ...
Bolshoi won't renew star dancer's contract
The Bolshoi Theater won't renew the contract of Nikolai Tsiskaridze, a veteran principal dancer and teacher who for years has been in open conflict with managers at the celebrated Russian theater. The dispute intensified after the Bolshoi ballet's artistic director was attacked in January by a man who threw acid ...
Sweden's royal wedding at a glance
Sweden's Princess Madeleine married New York banker Christopher O'Neill in a grand ceremony in Stockholm on Saturday. Here's a look at key facts about the couple and the wedding. THE COUPLE Princess Madeleine, 30, is the youngest of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia's three children and fourth in ...
Sweden's Princess Madeleine to wed New York banker
Three years ago she crossed the Atlantic with a broken heart. Now Sweden's "party princess" returns from New York to Stockholm to tie the knot with her new, British-American love. On Saturday, Princess Madeleine — the Duchess of Halsingland and Gastrikland — will wed New York banker Christopher O'Neill in ...
UK's Prince Philip enters hospital for operation
Queen Elizabeth II's husband has been admitted to a London hospital for an exploratory operation, Buckingham Palace said Thursday. The palace said the operation on 91-year-old Prince Philip — which will take place on Friday — was pre-planned and comes after "abdominal investigations" that were carried out over the past ...
Lofty art: Painting visible only from Eiffel Tower
Art is often seen as lofty — but perhaps none more than a new roof installation in Paris that's only visible from the top of the Eiffel Tower. The work, a huge 700-square-meter (7,500-square-foot) painting of black and white horseshoe shapes, was unveiled Thursday to bird's-eye spectators some 116 meters ...
Paris Jackson now in all-too-familiar spotlight
Until he died in 2009, Michael Jackson was fiercely protective of his children (save for that one balcony-dangling incident). He covered their faces when they went out with him so they might enjoy the kind of normal childhood he missed out on as a member of the Jackson 5. But ...
Actor Stephen Fry reveals suicide attempt in 2012
British actor and writer Stephen Fry says he attempted suicide last year while filming abroad. In an interview recorded with comic Richard Herring, Fry said he took "a huge number of pills" with vodka and was found unconscious by his producer in his hotel room. In the podcast interview, parts ...
US writer A.M. Homes wins Women's Fiction Prize
American novelist A.M. Homes has won this year's Women's Prize for Fiction with her sixth novel, "May We Be Forgiven." Homes beat bookmakers' favorite Hilary Mantel and three other finalists to win the 30,000-pound ($45,000) prize, awarded Wednesday at a ceremony in London's Royal Festival Hall. Previously known as the ...
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