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A unique first edition of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" annotated by author J.K. Rowling has sold for a record 150,000 pounds at a London charity auction, Sotheby's said on Tuesday.

Britain's cities, says Jeremy Clarkson in The Sun, are in a state of civil war. On one side are cyclists, who think that "thanks to the environment and the polar bear", the roads are theirs.

The 71-year-old singer-songwriter known for such hits as " A Natural Woman" and "You've Got A Friend" is being awarded the nation's highest prize for popular music Tuesday.

Citing a lack of leads, a police agency said Monday that it is closing the active investigation of the disappearance of Susan Powell, a Utah mother whose now-dead husband was a prime suspect The lawyer for the family of missing Utah woman Susan Powell said Tuesday that there's an ongoing federal investigation into her disappearance, but the FBI ... (more)

St. Louis Rams Managing Owner Chip Rosenbloom is joining other directors and advisers to help journalist and ex-MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan launch a new nationwide jobs program called the Veterans Job Corps.

The interior is as lovely as the exterior, despite the fact that many decorative features inside have long since been removed.

The 10th anniversary Saints and Sinners literary festival features Dorothy Allison , Bernard Cooper , Justin Torres , Ayana Mathis , Summer Wood , Andrew Holleran and many others.

A few years ago Malcolm Gladwell made the "10,000 hour rule" famous in his book Outliers .

The contemporary master of romance Nicholas Sparks delivers his latest to the big screen with "Safe Haven," now available on Blu-ray/DVD. Julianne Hough plays Katie, a young woman on the run.

What if, just like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day , you could wake up to a fresh and identical development environment completely free of yesterday's experiments and mistakes? Vagrant lets you do exactly that.

Any Harry Potter fan desperate to get their hands on new details of the world of muggles and magic should get themselves down to Sotheby's auction house tomorrow, where a first edition of opening instalment Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone complete with personal notes scribbled into the margins by author JK Rowling after re-reading it is to ... (more)

RENTRAK CORPORATION today announced the Top-10 DVD & Blu-ray sales and rentals according to the company's Retail Essentials and Home Video Essentials tracking services which are based on estimated consumer spending per data collected for the week ending Safe Haven is directed by Oscar-nominee Lasse Hallstrm and based on the best-selling novel by ... (more)

A first edition copy of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" that contains author J.K. Rowling's notes and original illustrations is going on sale in a charity auction.

J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fall of Arthur , an incomplete epic poem on King Arthur, has been edited for publication by his son, Christopher Tolkien, and newly released.

Australian director Baz Luhrmann regrets leaving the opportunity to direct the first edition of "Harry Potter" franchise because he was busy with something else Australian director Baz Luhrmann regrets leaving the opportunity to direct the first edition of "Harry Potter" franchise because he was busy with something else Australian director Baz ... (more)

My adventures in chick lit continue with a novel by Deb Caletti, "He's Gone" that will inevitably be compared with Gillian Flynn's bestselling novel "Gone Girl." Instead of Flynn's missing wife, Caletti deals with Seattle software executive Ian Keller, the missing husband of Dani Keller.

Singer-songwriter Carole King may feel the earth move May 22, one fine day when President Obama hosts a White House concert for this natural woman and presents her with the Library of Congress' Gershwin Prize for Popular Song .

'The Host,' the action-adventure romance film adaptation of The New York Times number one bestselling novel of the same name from 'The Twilight Saga' author Stephenie Meyer, is set to be released on home entertainment this summer.

Hyped worldwid e: Dan Brown's Inferno was released with all sorts of gimmicks around the world last Tuesday; in Amsterdam, women dressed as 'plague doctors' presented the book at the Amsterdam Central Station.

Artwork by the man behind the Life of Pi's famous book cover is going on display at a Cambridge gallery.