Monday, 27 February 2012

Berenstain Bears co-creator Jan Berenstain dies

FILE - Jan. 25, 2011 file photo, Janice Berenstain displays a copy of the first book, left, she and husband, Stanley Berenstain, created and the second book, which was the first to actually call the characters Berenstain Bears, in Solebury, Pa. Jan Berenstain, who with her husband Stan created the Berenstain Bears books that have charmed preschoolers and their parents for 50 years, has died. Her son Mike Berenstain said she died Feb. 24, 2012. She was 88. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)Jan Berenstain, who with her husband, Stan, wrote and illustrated the Berenstain Bears books that have charmed preschoolers and their parents for 50 years, has died. She was 88.


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Chinese architect Wang Shu wins Pritzker Prize

In this 2010 image released courtesy of The Hyatt Foundation, the Ningbo Tengtou Pavilion designed by Chinese architect Wang Shu, is shown in Shanghai, China. Shu, whose buildings have been praised for their commanding presence and careful attention to the environment, has won the 2012 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the prize's jury announced Monday, Feb. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Amateur Architecture Studio via The Hyatt Foundation, Fu Xing) Chinese architect Wang Shu, whose buildings have been praised for their commanding presence and careful attention to the environment, has won the 2012 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the prize's jury announced Monday.


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Charlotte Church looking past phone hacking case

Singer Charlotte Church speaks to the media outside the High Court in London after hearing the reading of a statement setting out the terms of the settlement for phone hacking damages claim against News International, Monday, Feb. 27, 2012. Church, who testified before a media inquiry of being hounded by Rupert Murdoch's journalists when she was a teen singing sensation, received 600,000 pounds ($951,000) Monday in a phone hacking settlement from News International and said she had been sickened by what she had learnt about intrusion into her private life. (AP Photo/Sang Tan) Charlotte Church's nearly $1 million settlement Monday with Rupert Murdoch's company provides vindication for a former child singing sensation caught in a web of tabloid intrigue as she grew into her teens.


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Harry Potter e-books coming to schools, libraries

In this Thursday, July 7, 2011 photo, British author JK Rowling arrives in Trafalgar Square, in central London, for the World Premiere of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows: Part 2, the last film in the series. Adult fans of J.K. Rowling can rejoice: She has a new novel coming, for grownups. The kids will have to wait and see. The author of the mega-selling Harry Potter e-books are coming to schools and libraries, at a date to be determined.


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UK police: Culture of illegal payments at The Sun

Singer Charlotte Church, right, leaves the High Court in London after hearing the reading of a statement setting out the terms of the settlement for phone hacking damages claim against News International, Monday, Feb. 27, 2012. Church, who testified before a media inquiry of being hounded by Rupert Murdoch's journalists when she was a teen singing sensation, received 600,000 pounds ($951,000) Monday in a phone hacking settlement from News International and said she had been sickened by what she had learnt about intrusion into her private life. (AP Photo/Sang Tan) A senior British police official said Monday that Britain's biggest selling tabloid, The Sun, had a culture of making illegal payments to public officials in return for stories.


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'Hugo' claims first 2 Oscars with technical wins

Billy Crystal performs during the 84th Academy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) Martin Scorsese's Paris adventure "Hugo" won the first two prizes of the night at Sunday's Academy Awards, claiming the Oscars for cinematography and art direction.


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Spain rejects Peruvian claim to shipwreck treasure

In this undated photo made available by the Spain's Culture Ministry, a member of the Ministry technical crew displays some of the 594,000 coins and other artifacts found in the Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes, a Spanish galleon sunk by British warships in the Atlantic while sailing back from South America in 1804, in a warehouse in Tampa, Fla. A 17-ton trove of silver coins recovered from the Spanish galleon was set to be flown Friday Feb. 24, 2012 from the United States to Spain, concluding a nearly five-year legal struggle with Odyssey Marine Exploration, the Florida deep-sea explorers who found and recovered it. (AP Photo/Spain's Culture Ministry, HO) Spain on Monday rejected Peru's claim to a huge multimillion-dollar undersea treasure recovered from the wreckage of a ship that had left from Lima's port more than 200 years ago.


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Nick Jonas on 'How to Succeed' and 'Smash'

In this Feb. 22, 2012 photo, Nick Jonas poses for a portrait in his dressing room before a performance of Broadway's Attention, young people milling about outside the Al Hirschfeld Theatre: Nick Jonas will not be popping out to shake your hand after matinees of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying."


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Pakistan lauds Oscar-winning filmmaker

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, left, and Daniel Junge pose with their awards for best documentary short for Pakistan's government honored on Monday the country's first filmmaker to win an Oscar: the director of a documentary on the plight of female victims of acid attacks in this conservative society.


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Kid Rock, Detroit symphony team up for benefit

FILE - In this June 2, 2011 file photo, recording artist Kid Rock smiles during a news conference on Belle Isle in his hometown of Detroit. Kid Rock is teaming up with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra for a one-night benefit concert for the nationally recognized orchestra, organizers announced Monday, Feb. 27, 2012. The May 12 show at Detroit's Fox Theatre aims to raise $1 million, the DSO said. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File) Kid Rock is teaming up with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra for a one-night benefit concert for the nationally recognized orchestra, organizers announced Monday.


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