Sarah Palin's book is highly anticipated in her home state — but she's no Harry Potter.

The story of a Chinese Communist Party official who moves to a community of boat people after his revolutionary lineage is refuted has won the Man Asian Literary Prize, organizers said.

Without the burden of a live worldwide broadcast, members of the film academy threw themselves a lively yet relaxed dinner party to honor the first Oscar winners of the season.

Winter, says Sting, whose latest album is an ode to the season, is a time to recharge and to reflect, and shorter warmer winters inevitably will harm the human psyche.

North American film-goers favored the apocalypse over Christmas this weekend as disaster flick “2012” beat Disney's “A Christmas Carol” to top the box office, according to early estimates Sunday.

Lou Dobbs says he doesn't feel like he was pushed out of CNN, the news organization where he worked for all but two years of its existence until last Wednesday.

In perhaps another sign of a recovering economy, millions of dollars worth of wines and spirits sold at three different auctions in New York over the weekend.

German police said Sunday that they had searched a home in connection with an alleged extortion scheme targeting former supermodel Cindy Crawford and her family.

ABC is close to a ordering a pilot for “Charlie's Angels,” planning a contemporary take on the 1970s crime series.

Guatemalan police say they have arrested a singer who fired a gun at a concert after he was told to get off the stage before playing. No one was hurt.