Wagner birthday "Ring" booed: will clan go up in smoke?
BAYREUTH, Germany - Richard Wagner made hand grenades for the 1849 Dresden uprising, so maybe he would have cheered the tumultuous end of his 200th birthday "Ring" cycle in Bayreuth, a production that has raised questions over his heirs running the festival.
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UK's multitaskers take to Twitter to swap TV talk: report
LONDON - Tweeting and texting while watching TV is supplanting the traditional water-cooler chat about the previous night's viewing among increasingly media-savvy Britons, the country's telecoms regulator has found.
Lady Gaga: there were 'giant craters' in my injured hip
LOS ANGELES - Lady Gaga had a "huge breakage" and "giant craters" in her right hip that forced the pop singer to cancel about two dozen concerts this year and undergo surgery.
Law firm makes donation after revealing JK Rowling's identity
LONDON - Harry Potter creator JK Rowling accepted a substantial charity donation from the London-based law firm which revealed she had written a detective novel under a pseudonym, a British court heard on Wednesday.
Rihanna wins Topshop T-shirt legal case
LONDON - Barbadian singer Rihanna on Wednesday won a legal case against British fashion chain Topshop over the use of her image on a T-shirt it sold without her approval.
Sarajevo film festival faces deep spending cuts
SARAJEVO - The Sarajevo Film Festival (SFF), the largest movie competition in the Balkans, will open on August 16 and showcase 214 films, but this year's edition faces deep budget cuts which organizers blamed on the political and economic crisis in Bosnia.
Book Talk: A parenting journey as father-turned-mother
WASHINGTON - Author Jennifer Finney Boylan says there is more to being a mother than giving birth and in her newest book, "Stuck in the Middle with You," she chronicles her transgender journey from being a father to a mother.


