J.K. Rowling says her crime-writing alter ego Robert Galbraith had respectable sales and two TV adaptation offers before he was exposed as a pseudonym for the Harry Potter novelist, and she wishes she could have kept her identity secret a little longer.
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Bugarach: The French City That Will Survive the Apocalypse?
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Pope John Paul’s Path to Sainthood: A Rush to Judgment?
When hundreds of thousands of Catholics gather in Rome Sunday for the beatification of Pope John Paul II, not everyone will be celebrating.
Japan One Month Later: Elusive Royals Out of Seclusion to Help Victims
Apart from some miracle rescues, Japan has seen little good news in the month since catastrophe struck.
Adult Obesity Linked with Traumatic Childhood Experiences
Dr. Vincent Felitti, founder of Kaiser Permanente’s Department of Preventive Medicine and director of its obesity-treatment program, was seeing some good results
Hanoi’s Reclusive Lake Turtle Forced Out of Its Shell
It was a lengthy, set-back laden struggle watched by a city of increasingly curious people.
Medicine: Too Posh To Push?
Actress Elizabeth Hurley had one. So did supermodel Claudia Schiffer
Beyonce causing controversy in Egypt
Diva Beyonce Knowles strutting her stuff in the conservative Middle East? Al Arabiya reported that organizers, seeking to avoid a similar fate for Beyonce, decided to hold her concert hundreds of miles away from Cairo at a thinly populated Red Sea resort
From Rwanda to Bosnia: Devastating impact of world’s tragedies
Over the last two decades humanitarian organization International Medical Corps has cared for hundreds of thousands of victims of wars and natural disasters in more than 25 countries.
‘Death can tell us a lot about living,’ mummy expert says
Throughout his life, Ronn Wade has been surrounded by death. And in most cases, it hasn’t seemed to bother him.