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Imprisoned Burmese comedian and satirist Zarganar has been chosen by one of Britain’s top poets to receive the prestigious PEN/Pinter award. The award, named after the late British playwright Harold Pinter, is given annually to one British literary figure and...

Micro Four-Thirds (m4/3) is a new interchangeable lens digital camera format based on the Four-Thirds digital SLR format. It uses live view only, allowing cameras and lenses to be much smaller. Given the skyrocketing m4/3 sales figures, small interchangeable lens...

O PEN all night, dimly lit, with rows of sleek, modern terminals, the internet cafe in Fiji's capital, Suva, was packed at all hours with teenage boys playing boisterous rounds of video games. But one day soon after I arrived,...

He gained literary fame with a novel in a form of a lexicon “Dictionary of the Khazars” published in 1984. “Until 1984 I was the least popular author in my country, and starting from that year on, I have become...

At the Royal Institute of British Architects in London, several dozen teams battled it out; among the literary luminaries were Margaret Drabble, Sarah Waters and Philip Hensher. Questions included: who recently became the highest-grossing actor in Hollywood, and also insisted...

A love affair with a city like London demands much more than an air-kiss I know people who swear by the charms of Lagos or Grozny...Take note, Jan Morris I once sat next to a woman at dinner who asked...

The Norman Mailer who was honored Tuesday night by the glittery literati at a gala benefit was generous, nurturing and diligent, a big cuddly teddy bear with rumpled white hair and a rocking chair that faced the bay. Only occasionally...

Glasgow Hawks, but they had to survive a late rally from a Stew/Mel team clearly determined not to give up the ghost of surviving in Premier One without a fight. Tries from Blair Tweedie and Alex Cox in the final...