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'The Bishop's Man'tops Maclean's fiction list for the week ending March 9
TORONTO - Here are the top 10 hardcover fiction and non-fiction books in Canada for the week of March 9 compiled by Maclean's magazine. FICTION 1 (2) The Bishop's Man - Linden MacIntyre 2...
Girlicious band member arrested in California on suspicion of cocaine possession
Girlicious was arrested after Glendale officers found more than a dozen plastic bags of cocaine in her Gucci purse during a traffic stop. Police Sgt. Tom Lorenz says 21-year-old Natalie Mejia (meh-...
John English wins Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Pierre Trudeau biography
OTTAWA - John English of Kitchener, Ont., has won the $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for his latest biography on Pierre Trudeau. The former MP and history professor at the Un...
Israeli novel, collection of Russian poetry win prizes for best English-language translation
NEW YORK - An Israeli novel and a collection of Russian poetry have won prizes for best English-language translation. Gail Hareven's novel "The Confessions of Noa Weber" won the Best Translated Boo...
Cable, satellite TV operators ask for government intervention in fee dispute with broadcasters
The most recent showdown left millions of Cablevision Systems Corp. customers around New York without an ABC station at the start of the Academy Awards. About 15 minutes into the show, a scrolling ...
Web user's world turned upside down by Conan's decision to follow her on Twitter
CONWAY TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Last week, Sarah Killen had three Twitter followers. This week, she has 20,000 - as well as a new iMac computer and offers to help pay for a dress and drinks for her weddin...
Country superstar Carrie Underwood is flying high as "Play On Tour" starts
NASHVILLE - After selling more than a million tickets to her last concert tour, Carrie Underwood is aiming higher this time. Really high. She plans to fly over the audience, for starters. "We're ki...
Rarely seen Italian Renaissance painting will be on view at Milwaukee Art Museum
MILWAUKEE - Rarely lent from the Pitti Palace in Florence, Italy, Raphael Sanzio's painting "The Woman with the Veil" is making its last United States' appearance likely for many years at the Milwauke...
3-D movies help boost movie box office worldwide to record $30 billion
LOS ANGELES - The appeal of 3-D movies helped boost movie ticket sales by nearly 8 per cent to a record US$29.9 billion worldwide in 2009, according to the Motion Picture Association of America. Th...
Art patron's collection heading to auction, includes Picasso, Matisse
NEW YORK - A late philanthropist's modern art collection featuring a rarely seen work by Pablo Picasso is being auctioned in New York City. The seminal painting by Picasso is called "Nude, Green Le...
