An imposing 19th Century building with elegant manicured lawns and sweeping views of the Edinburgh skyline seems an unlikely place to have earned the nickname "Dottyville" from one of Britain's most revered poets. More »
German investigators shut down an illegal file-sharing site with around 27,000 members as part of a police sting targeting 42 suspects across Germany, the Frankfurt attorney general's office said on Friday. More »
Chinese distributors of overseas publications must verify that the content is legal in China, Beijing said late on Sunday, after a major western publisher blocked access to some content in the country citing local regulations. More »
The former head of the U.S. Democratic National Committee on Sunday defended her assertion that she had seriously considered proposing to replace Hillary Clinton as the party's 2016 presidential nominee, and said her critics could "go to hell." More »
A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that a non-profit exhibiting art by Al Hirschfeld had the right to terminate its contract with a Manhattan gallery that had sold works by the late theater and screen caricaturist for more than four decades. More »
A New Zealand political party has been ordered to pay more than $400,000 to U.S. rapper Eminem for using music similar to his 2002 hit "Lose Yourself" in a television commercial to help win a national election. More »
China Literature Ltd, China's largest online publishing and e-book company, launched an initial public offering for up to $1.1 billion on Monday, seeking funds for acquisitions and to expand its digital publishing business. More »
A new exhibition celebrating the 20th anniversary of the first Harry Potter book's publication is offering 'muggles' with an interest in magic the chance to view rare memorabilia, combined with historic artifacts referenced in the popular series. More »
American author George Saunders has won the 2017 Man Booker Prize, a high-profile literary award, for his first novel, "Lincoln in the Bardo," - a fictional account of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln burying his young son. More »
Hachette Book Group, the U.S. publishing house of French group Lagardere, has terminated the Weinstein Books imprint, the latest entity to distance itself from Harvey Weinstein after allegations of sexual harassment against the movie producer. More »
Shares of Switch Inc, which provides data center services to Amazon, eBay and JP Morgan among others, rose as much as 45 percent in their market debut on Friday, giving the company a market capitalization of more than $5.6 billion. More »
Netflix Inc's U.S. business announced the first rises in monthly fees in two years on Thursday, hiking costs for two of its three main subscription plans as it spends heavily on its own original content. More »
A lawyer for an actress who claims Bill Cosby raped her in 1974 told a U.S. appeals court on Wednesday that the comedian "destroyed" her reputation by calling her a liar after she came forward with her allegations in a 2014 newspaper interview. More »
Activist group Avaaz stepped up its battle to stop Rupert Murdoch buying Sky (SKYB.L), launching a legal challenge to the regulator's view that the pay-TV group would still be a "fit and proper" owner of a broadcasting license if the deal goes ahead. More »
Long associated with pirates, famine and bombs, Somalia showed a different face to the world this week as it welcomed foreign writers for the first time to its annual book fair. More »
CBS Corp (CBS.N) will pay at least A$201.1 million ($162 million) in cash to buy Australian broadcaster Ten Network Holdings (TEN.AX), according to documents released on Monday by Ten's administrator. More »
Critics of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen have grown used to following upstart news service Fresh News to find out what the government’s next target might be. More »
An African safari has inspired a new book by Julia Donaldson in which the creator of children's favorite "The Gruffalo" homes in on an unsightly bunch of wild animals known as "The Ugly Five." More »
Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] chose Dara Khosrowshahi, the chief executive of travel company Expedia Inc, as its chief executive on Sunday, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter, handing him the challenge of leading the ride-services company ... More »
Art is well known for its power to move people, but a new installation in London can move itself - it comprises a series of autonomous floating spheres, that interact with visitors and the space on their own. More »
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Qatar Petroleum is seen at its headquartes in Doha, Qatar, July 8, 2017. Picture taken July 8, 2017. Qatar’s tensions with its neighbors are making world markets edgy about any hint of financial instability among the Gulf economies, who... More »
The “Planet of the Apes” films highlight the risks of a lack of empathy with people from different cultures, actor Andy Serkis said at the premiere of “War for the Planet of the Apes”, the final film of a recent trilogy spun off from science fiction. More »
Jane Austen once wrote that a large income was the best recipe for happiness. Now a private letter written by the author to her niece could well make someone very happy indeed. More »
FILE PHOTO – Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain gets the checkered flag to win the Chinese Formula One Grand Prix at the Shanghai International Circuit in Shanghai, China, Sunday, April 9, 2017. REUTERS/Andy Wong/Pool Formula One is teaming up with mark... More »
FILE PHOTO – A man walks along a fence hung with large format hoardings of J. R. R. Tolkien characters from The Hobbit movie in Wellington November 27, 2012. REUTERS/Mark Coote The estate of J.R.R. Tolkien has settled an $80 million lawsuit against Warner Bros... More »
FILE PHOTO: People walk outside the Fairfax Media headquarters building in Sydney, Australia, May 3, 2017. REUTERS/Jason Reed Australian newspaper publisher Fairfax Media Ltd said two private equity firms withdrew from rival takeover bids worth up to A$2.9 bil... More »
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud stands during a reception ceremony for British Prime Minister Theresa May in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, April 5, 2017. Bandar Algaloud/Courtesy of Saudi Royal Court/Handout via REUTERS Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin ... More »
The logo of Thomson Reuters is pictured at the entrance of its Paris headquarters, France, March 7, 2016. REUTERS/Charles Platiau/File Photo Thomson Reuters Corp plans to release a tool on Wednesday that will allow customers to plug its market data into system... More »
A key Chinese regulator has issued a notice demanding broadcasters distribute programs that promote “core socialist values”, and “forcefully oppose” content that celebrates money worship, hedonism, radical individualism and feudal thought. More »
A key Chinese regulator has issued a notice demanding broadcasters distribute programs that promote "core socialist values", and "forcefully oppose" content that celebrates money worship, hedonism, radical individualism and feudal thought. More »
BEIJING (Reuters) – A key Chinese regulator has issued a notice demanding broadcasters distribute programs that promote “core socialist values”, and “forcefully oppose” content that celebrates money worship, hedonism, radical individualism and feudal thought. ... More »
A key Chinese regulator has issued a notice demanding broadcasters distribute programs that promote "core socialist values", and "forcefully oppose" content that celebrates money worship, hedonism, radical individualism and feudal thought. More »
Mastheads of The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and the Australian Financial Review, all Fairfax Media publications, are pictured in this photo-illustration in Sydney June 18, 2012. REUTERS/Daniel Munoz U.S. buyout firm TPG Capital Management on Monday raised ... More »
Cast members (L-R) Dave Bautista, Zoe Saldana, Pom Klementieff, Chris Pratt, Kurt Russell, Karen Gillan, director James Gunn and Michael Rooker pose as they attend a premiere of the film ”Guardians of the galaxy, Vol. 2” in London, Britain, April 24, 2017. REU... More »
People shop for handsets at an M1 mobile shop in Singapore March 21, 2017. REUTERS/Edgar Su Top shareholders in Singapore telecoms company M1 Ltd (MONE.SI) have approached potential buyers China Mobile (0941.HK) and global private equity firms, among others, t... More »
Actor Dave Bautista. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok The stars of “Guardians of the Galaxy,” the Marvel movie about a rag-tag group of integalactic heroes, landed in Hollywood to debut their return in a much-anticipated sequel that sees them embark on another high-stak... More »
Members from the pro-democracy Civic Party carry a portrait of Gui Minhai (L) and Lee Bo during a protest outside the Chinese Liaison Office in Hong Kong, China January 19, 2016. REUTERS/Bobby Yip A bookseller detained in China for publishing books on the pers... More »
FILE PHOTO: An Apple logo is seen in a store in Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 24, 2017. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo Apple Inc (AAPL.O) is considering teaming up with its supplier Foxconn to bid for Toshiba Corp’s (6502.T) semiconductor business, p... More »
FILE PHOTO – Actor Jude Law attends the photocall for the movie ‘The Young Pope’ at the 73rd Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy September 3, 2016. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi/File Photo British actor Jude Law has been cast to play a young version of Hogwarts... More »
Sweden’s girl with the dragon tattoo is heading back to bookstores in a fifth thriller about the troubled computer hacker Lisbeth Salander created by the late novelist Stieg Larsson, publishers said on Tuesday. More »
Dean Baquet (C), executive editor of The New York Times, celebrates the announcement of the 2017 Pulitzer Prizes in The Times office in New York, U.S., April 10, 2017. Sam Hodgson/Courtesy The New York Times/Handout via REUTERS The Pulitzer Prizes on Monday ho... More »
FILE PHOTO: Model Naomi Campbell (R) poses for a photograph with fashion stylist Edward Enninful, after Enninful received his Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) at Buckingham Palace, in London, Britain October 27, 2016. REUTERS/Philip Toscano/Poo... More »
FILE PHOTO — Jackie Evancho sings the U.S. National Anthem during inauguration ceremonies swearing in Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States on the West front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., January 20, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/Fil... More »
FILE PHOTO: Recording artist Barry Manilow performs during his ”One Last Time! Tour” at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California April 14, 2015. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/File Photo Barry Manilow has spoken publicly for the first time about being gay, saying he f... More »
Credit Suisse logo is pictured on their office in Warsaw Poland, March 15, 2017. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel Credit Suisse (CSGN.S) has taken out adverts in British Sunday newspapers stressing a zero-tolerance policy on tax evasion, as the Swiss bank tries to limit ... More »
The New York Post apologized early on Sunday hours after its app was apparently hacked with what was reported to be alerts about President Donald Trump. More »
Italian novelist Elena Ferrante’s best-selling novel “My Brilliant Friend” is headed to television as an eight-part series, U.S. cable channel HBO and Italy’s RAI television said on Thursday. More »
Film convention Cinemacon in Las Vegas gives Hollywood studios the chance to show off some of their upcoming projects to cinema chains and journalists ahead of their release. More »
FILE PHOTO: U.S. musician Bob Dylan performs during day 2 of The Hop Festival in Paddock Wood, Kent on June 30th 2012. REUTERS/Ki Price/File photo Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan will receive his Nobel Literature Prize diploma and medal in the next few days in Sto... More »
A broad coalition of advertising trade groups, ad buyers and sellers from Western Europe and the United States have urged the industry to stop using annoying online marketing formats that have fuelled the rapid rise of ad-blockers. More »
French Beatles specialist and collector Jacques Volcouve, one of the world’s greatest living experts of the band, poses with the ‘ Yesterday And today ‘ and ‘From Me To You’ covers at Drouot auction house in Paris, March 16, 2017, a part of the 15,000 items go... More »
FILE PHOTO: Models present creations during the Bora Aksu catwalk show during London Fashion Week in London, Britain, February 17, 2017. REUTERS/Neil Hall/File Photo Dressed in a red top, fuchsia pleated skirt and fluffy boa worn on the shoulder, fashion blogg... More »
Jeff Bezos, founder of Blue Origin and CEO of Amazon, speaks about the future plans of Blue Origin during an address to attendees at Access Intelligence’s SATELLITE 2017 conference in Washington, U.S., March 7, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts Billionaire Jeff Bez... More »
FILE PHOTO – Paul McCartney celebrates after performing with Ringo Starr (not pictured) during the 2015 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in Cleveland, U.S. on Ohio April 18, 2015. REUTERS/Aaron Josefczyk/File Photo Paul McCartney, who has waited d... More »
FILE PHOTO: German Justice Minister Heiko Maas attends a cabinet meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, January 11, 2017. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch Edzard Busemann More »
Louis Theroux, writer and star of documentary ‘My Scientology Movie,’ poses for a portrait in Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 7, 2017. Picture taken March 7, 2017. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson Roy More »
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange makes a speech from the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy, in central London, Britain February 5, 2016. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls/Files Wikileaks will provide technology companies with exclusive access to CIA hacking tools that it... More »
Uber Technologies Inc’s Gary Marcus said he is stepping down from his post as head of AI Labs, four months after the unit was created. More »
Hillary Clinton looks at a USA Today article about Vice President Mike Pence’s use of personal email while in office, during her flight on American Airlines to Laguardia airport in NY City, New York, March 3, 2017. Courtesy of Caitlin Quigley/Handout via REUTE... More »
The oldest Jewish document of the New World will be returned to Mexico in March, the Mexican consulate in New York said on Friday, more than seven decades after it disappeared. More »
Actor Alec Baldwin speaks at a protest against U.S. President-elect Donald Trump outside the Trump International Hotel in New York City, U.S. January 19, 2017. REUTERS/Stephanie Keith /File Photo Actor Alec Baldwin is taking his “Saturday Night Live” impersona... More »
Two 1:1 scale photographic books depicting Sistine Chapel are seen during a news conference in the Sistine Chapel, the Vatican February 24, 2017. REUTERS/Philip Pullella The last time the entire Sistine Chapel was photographed for posterity, digital photograph... More »
Milo Yiannopoulos addresses the media during a news conference in New York, U.S., February 21, 2017. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson Provocative far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos resigned on Tuesday as a senior editor of the Breitbart News website after he was vil... More »
A leading U.S. conservative conference rescinded its invitation to provocative commentator Milo Yiannopoulos and a publisher canceled his book deal on Monday after old internet videos of him recirculated in which he discusses pedophilia. More »
Berkshire Hathaway Inc Vice Chairman Charles Munger speaks at the Daily Journal annual meeting in Los Angeles, U.S., February 15, 2017. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson Charlie Munger, the billionaire vice chairman of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKa.N), sa... More »
FILE PHOTO: An alien world just two-thirds the size of Earth – one of the smallest on record – detected by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope is seen in this NASA artist’s illustration released by NASA on July 18, 2012. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Handout via REUTERS/File Ph... More »
The March/April 2017 cover of March 2017 Playmate, Elizabeth Elam, is shown in this handout photo provided February 13, 2017. Courtesy Gavin Bond/Playboy Enterprises, Inc/Handout via REUTERS Playboy magazine is returning to its roots, bringing nudes back just ... More »
FILE PHOTO:Activists placed life-size cardboards, depicting Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin and Philippe Petain in front of the Kaiser Wilhelm monument at the Deutsches Eck (‘German Corner’) to protest against a European far-right leaders meeting,... More »
An undated image handed out by Mallams shows a catalogue photograph of items from one of the world’s largest collections of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ memorabilia, featuring over 3,000 items, which were sold at the Oxford auction house for around 70,000 pounds ($88... More »
U.S. President Donald Trump pauses as he talks to journalists who are members of the White house travel pool on board Air Force One during his flight to Palm Beach, Florida while over South Carolina, U.S., February 3, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria Highlights of ... More »
A handwritten draft letter of abdication penned by King George III is to go on display for the first time as part of a huge cache of documents from the reign of the last British monarch to rule over America, the royal household said on Saturday. More »
Laura Wood of Skoob Books poses for a photograph with a copy of George Orwell’s ‘1984’ in central London June 9, 2013. REUTERS/Toby Melville George Orwell’s “1984” novel about a dystopian future under an authoritarian regime is back as a bestseller and being r... More »
White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus stands next to U.S. President Donald Trump as he talks to members of the media at Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., December 21, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Barria – RTX2W2EA The White House vowed on Sunday to f... More »
Musician Paul McCartney waves as he takes the stage to perform at the Desert Trip music festival at Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, U.S., October 8, 2016. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni Former Beatle Paul McCartney sued Sony Corp’s music publishing arm on Wednes... More »
Reince Priebus (R), chief of staff to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, walks with a staff member as he arrives to attend meetings with Trump at the Mar-a-lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. December 28, 2016. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst President-elect Donald ... More »
File Photo: Michael Lynton, CEO Sony Entertainment and CEO and chairman Sony Pictures Entertainment, speaks during an investors’ conference at the company’s headquarters in Tokyo November 18, 2014. REUTERS/Toru Hanai Sony Entertainment Chief Executive Michael ... More »
Donald Trump speaks as his son-in-law Jared Kushner (L), daughter Ivanka listen at a campaign event at the Trump National Golf Club Westchester in Briarcliff Manor, New York, U.S., June 7, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s... More »
British novelist Richard Adams, the author of “Watership Down”, which sold millions of copies and captivated a generation of children, has died aged 96, his family said. More »
In a word, 2016 was “surreal.” More »
Ivanka Trump, daughter of U.S. President Elect Donald Trump walks through the lobby with her husband Jared Kushner at Trump Tower in New York, U.S. November 18, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Segar President-elect Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is looking to se... More »
Ivanka Trump, daughter of U.S. President Elect Donald Trump walks through the lobby with her husband Jared Kushner at Trump Tower in New York, U.S. November 18, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Segar President-elect Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is looking to se... More »
A copy of ‘The Tales of Beedle the Bard’, handwritten and illustrated by Harry Potter author JK Rowling, is displayed at Sotheby’s auction house in London, Britain December 8, 2016. REUTERS/Eddie Keogh “Harry Potter” fans will be able to bid for a piece of his... More »
Entertainer Kanye West arrives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala in New York, May 2, 2016. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo Rapper Kanye West was released from hospital on Wednesday, according to media outlets citing unidentified sources... More »
British band Duran Duran talk on the stage after receiving the ”Video Visionary” award during the MTV EMA awards at the Assago forum in Milan, Italy, October 25, 2015. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini/Files The British 1980s pop band “Duran Duran” will not be able t... More »
A boy holds a sign during a protest against U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in Manhattan, New York, U.S., November 13, 2016. REUTERS/Bria Webb Demonstrators in major U.S. cities took to the streets on Sunday for a fifth straight day to protest President-elec... More »
Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen performs during the first night of the 47th Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland on July 4, 2013. REUTERS/Valentin Flauraud/File Photo Leonard Cohen, rock music’s man of letters whose songs fused religious im... More »
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch leaves his home in London, Britain March 4, 2016. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth News Corp (NWSA.O), the owner of the Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires and book publisher HarperCollins, reported a quarterly loss as it struggles to cop... More »
A 3D-printed Facebook logo is seen in front of a displayed stock graph in this illustration taken November 3, 2016. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Facebook said on Monday it would partner with 50 broadcast stations, print and online publications for an Electi... More »
An Apple logo hangs above the entrance to the Apple store on 5th Avenue in the Manhattan borough of New York City, July 21, 2015. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo Comcast Corp’s NBCUniversal will begin selling ads for Apple Inc’s News app next year in an exclusiv... More »
Author Madeleine Thien poses for photographs during a photo-call in London for the six Man Booker shortlisted fiction authors, on the eve of the prize giving in London, Britain October 24, 2016. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls – RTX2Q9MY Man Booker Prize finalist Madel... More »
3D-printed models of people are seen in front of a Facebook logo in this photo illustration taken June 9, 2016. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Facebook Inc (FB.O) shares tumbled 7 percent in after-hours trading on Wednesday as the world’s largest online socia... More »
FILE PHOTO: Terry Bollea, aka Hulk Hogan, sits in court during his trial against Gawker Media, in St Petersburg, Florida March 17, 2016. Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times/Pool via Reuters Shuttered irreverent news website Gawker Media LLC has reached a $31 million ca... More »
Author Paul Beatty poses for photographs during a photo-call in London for the six Man Booker shortlisted fiction authors, on the eve of the prize giving in London, Britain October 24, 2016. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls Paul Beatty was on Tuesday named as the first ... More »
Actors Gal Gadot and Lynda Carter pose for photos during an event to name Wonder Woman UN Honorary Ambassador for the Empowerment of Women and Girls at the United Nations Headquarters in the Manhattan borough of New York, New York, U.S., October 21, 2016. REUT... More »
Bob Dylan performs during a segment honoring Director Martin Scorsese, recipient of the Music + Film Award, at the 17th Annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards in Los Angeles January 12, 2012. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni The committee that awarded the Nobel Prize in Lit... More »
French National Front (FN) political party leader Marine Le Pen delivers a speech during a FN political rally in Frejus, France September 18, 2016. REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier A new satirical comic book is out in France entitled “The Dark Side of Marine le Pen... More »
Scientists in Britain have managed to teach bumblebees to pull strings to get to food and then pass on what they have learned to others in their colony – showing a high level of intelligence despite their tiny brains. More »
Singer and actor David Bowie is shown on screen as singer Dave Grohl performs during the In Memoriam segment at the 88th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California February 28, 2016. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni – RTS8GQR Sotheby’s on Monday previewed the contemporary a... More »
A court in Oman on Monday ordered the permanent closure of a newspaper which had reported on alleged corruption within the judiciary, and jailed three of its journalists on charges that included undermining the prestige of the state. More »
Graphic made available to Reuters on September 25, 2016, depicts the range of sensor information feeding a new set of live traffic services digital mapping company HERE is introducing ahead of the Paris Motor Show in conjunction with automakers Audi, BMW, Merc... More »
