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LONDON (Reuters) - A copy of the first issue of Action Comics, in which Superman was unveiled to the world, has sold in an online auction for a record $2.16 million. It cost 10 cents when it was published in 1938.The ...

LONDON (Reuters) - British singer Adele said she was "on the mend" after undergoing microsurgery in Boston to treat a benign polyp on her vocal cords.The problems forced Adele, whose album "21" is the top seller in the United States and Britain ...

VENICE, Italy (Reuters) - Russian director Alexander Sokurov's "Faust," loosely based on Goethe's classic German text, won the Golden Lion for best picture at the Venice film festival on Saturday.(Reporting by Mike Collett-White) Copyright 2011  Reuters US Online Report Entertainment ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Jokes about creaky knees, thinning hair and spreading -- or vanishing -- waistlines have long been an inevitable, if unwelcome, part of watching the birthdays pile up.But it shouldn't be that way, argues Wendy Lustbader, who maintains that youth, with ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Toxicology tests showed there were no illegal substances in British singer Amy Winehouse's body when she died last month aged 27, her spokesman said on Tuesday.In a statement, he added that alcohol was present, but that it could ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A feisty 90-year-old German woman chased away three would-be burglars from her rural farmhouse with her cane, police said on Monday.The retired farmer was moving around her house with the help of a walking frame and spotted the intruders ...

LONDON (Reuters) - British singer Sting has canceled a concert in the Kazakh capital Astana scheduled for Monday after human rights group Amnesty International informed the former Police frontman about what it described as a "crackdown" on oil workers there.Several thousand workers ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Peter Maxwell Davies, Master of the Queen's Music, has suggested that owners of mobile phones which ring during concerts should pay a fine.Speaking to the BBC, he described the problem as becoming so common that it was "a ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Readers will be able to "jump" from a new adventure series into children's classics "Treasure Island" and "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" in a new digital book initiative launched on Amazon's Kindle on Tuesday.Written by children's ...

CANNES, France (Reuters) - U.S. director Terrence Malick's long-awaited film "The Tree of Life" won the Palme d'Or prize for best picture at the Cannes film festival on Sunday.The award brought an end to the May 11-22 cinema showcase ...

Topic: Mike Collett-White

First Superman comic sells for record $2.2 million

Singer Adele "on the mend" after throat surgery

Russian film "Faust" takes top prize in Venice

You don't get older, you get better -- really

No illegal drugs in Winehouse toxicology report

Woman, 90, beats back burglars with cane

Sting cancels Kazakh concert over oil worker dispute

Queen's composer wants fines for mobile phone users at concerts

Readers "jump into" classics in publishing venture

Malick's "The Tree of Life" wins Palme d'Or at Cannes

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