Nobel winner Mo urges Liu Xiaobo’s freedom
China’s newly-named Nobel laureate for literature, Mr Mo Yan, expressed hope yesterday that an imprisoned Chinese winner of the Nobel Peace Prize will be freed,
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Book Talk: Booker nominee Thayil offers bleak Bombay portrait
(Reuters) – Jeet Thayil, one of the nominees for the 2012 Man Booker Prize for the year’s best novel in English, paints a stark portrait
Rod and Elton? Just call them Phyllis and Sharon
(Reuters) – Rock star Rod Stewart may be famous for his bevy of ex-wives and girlfriends, but it is fellow pop star Elton John who
Aaron Paul trades drugs for alcohol addiction in “Smashed”
(Reuters) – Aaron Paul, who won his second Emmy last month for playing drug dealer Jesse Pinkman in the dark television drama, “Breaking Bad,” trades
Beyonce quits A Star is Born remake
US singer Beyonce Knowles has quit director Clint Eastwood’s remake of Oscar-winning rock musical A Star is Born. She told E! News in a statement:
Pussy Riot case: One defendant freed in Russia
A Moscow court has freed one of the convicted women from the punk band Pussy Riot but upheld two-year jail terms for the other two.