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A Federal Appeals Court in California ruled this morning that the state's controversial ban on same-sex marriages, Proposition 8, is unconstitutional.

To many people, even the worst of news can sound better when said with a British accent.

Britain will regret the current wave of library closures but that does not mean its network must stay the same Britain is today celebrating National Libraries Day, though the celebrations are unlikely to be mistaken for the Queen's diamond jubilee, say, or the London Olympics .

When the star of movies such as V for Vendetta and Brighton Rock receives his award on the evening of Sunday, February 12, he will join previous recipients such as former cameraman and current Panavision executive vice-president Joe Dunton, the Harry Potter franchise, actor-director Kenneth Branagh and writer-director Mike Leigh in collecting the ... (more)

Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Elijah Wood, Orlando Bloom, Andy Serkis, Luke Evans, Benedict Cumberbatch, Evangeline Lilly , and Stephen Fry also star.A The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey opens on December 14, 2012 followed by The Hobbit: There and Back Again on December 13, 2013.A Hit the jump for the full image in high resolution, plus quotes from ... (more)

What makes Stephen Fry so "slappable .a Bones ), film , hosting documentaries, whipping up novels, sprawling across newsprint.