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By Associated Press MANILA, Philippines: This seemed so far away in the beginning. There was a week of training camp in Las Vegas for USA Basketball to get through, then a week in Spain, then a week in Abu Dhabi, the…

Enid Blyton’s classic Famous Five children’s books are getting adapted for the BBC.The more baffling aspect is who’ll be adapting them: none other than Nicolas Winding Refn. That’s right, the director of such children’s classics as…

Nicolas Winding Refn | Photo Credit: David Fisher/REX/Shutterstock A series adaptation of The Famous Five, Enid Blyton’s legendary children’s adventure book series, is in the works at BBC and ZDF with Drive, Copenhagen Cowboy maker Nicolas…

© Reuters. A person sits outside the U.S. Capitol after U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) reached a tentative deal with President Joe Biden to raise the United States' debt ceiling and avoid a catastrophic default, in Washington,…

"I was told by the world I wasn't allowed to write classic country, even though I'd written so much of it…

Along with the stethoscope and camembert cheese, mifepristone may be one of France’s greatest inventions. It’s one of two drugs taken for medical abortions, along with misoprostol, and has been making headlines in…

Netflix is officially winding down the business that helped make it a household name.This fall, the streaming giant will officially say goodbye to its DVD rental service and all of the red envelopes that made it…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH - Associated Press Thomas snuggles under the covers with me at bedtime, warm and wiggly.It is our third tour through the “Harry Potter” series, and tonight is like so many…

The global regulatory regime for “too big to fail” banks set up after the 2008 crisis does not work, according to Switzerland’s finance minister. In an interview with Swiss newspaper NZZ on Saturday, Karin Keller-Sutter — who was at…

By ADAM BEAM - Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's coronavirus emergency officially ends Tuesday, nearly three years after Gov. Gavin Newsom issued the nation's first statewide…