Singer Beyonce scooped three prizes at the MTV Europe Music Awards on Thursday at a ceremony in Berlin marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the wall that once divided the city.

Puerto Rican duo Calle 13 won all five awards it was nominated for Thursday at the Latin Grammys in Las Vegas, including two of the top awards of the night and honors in both urban and alternative categories.

Actors Tom Hanks, Patricia Clarkson and James Cromwell walked the red carpet Thursday before a private screening of the Hanks-produced war film “Beyond All Boundaries” held at the World War II Museum in New Orleans.

Wanted: outgoing and enthusiastic applicants to work as restroom ambassadors in central Manhattan location.

A 20-year-old man who called 911 to get his fast-food order straightened out has been told to pay a US$300 fine.

An Atlanta man who rescued one stray dog from traffic now has his hands full with 10 pooches.

A Volkswagen van stolen 35 years ago in Washington state has been found in a shipping container bound for The Netherlands.

This deeply insightful book pulls aside the facade of China's explosive economic growth to reveal the rampant injustices of state rule and the stories of those who have dared to challenge the government on issues like corruption, censorship and repression.

Believed by some to be America's best contemporary writer-journalist for his smart, captivating use of scientific data to explain many current trends and issues, Malcolm Gladwell adds to that reputation in his latest offering, a collection of his favorite articles he penned for The New Yorker magazine as a staff writer there over the past decade.

The lives of four individuals—a dying painter, a blind girl, a landscape artist, and an art curator—intertwine across nearly five decades in this luminous and searching novel of extraordinary power.