The Nobel Peace Prize for 2011 was awarded on Friday to three women from Africa and the Arab world in acknowledgment of their nonviolent role in promoting peace, democracy, and gender equality: President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, her compatriot, the peace activist Leymah Gbowee, and Tawakul Karman of Yemen, a pro-democracy campaigner.
The salary dispute between the actors who provide voices for The Simpsons and 20th Century Fox Television has shone a light on just how much News Corp. has made from the show.
Vladimir Putin is, like, the Mayor Quimby of Russia.
An international research team announces it has taken a key step toward achieving its goal of a "prosthetic exoskeleton" that a quadriplegic could command by brain power.
9 things you didn't know about the life of Steve Jobs.
Nerve pits AMC's two champions, Mad Men and Breaking Bad, against each other in a magnificent battle royale.
Bryan Cranston on where Breaking Bad is going and why his Total Recall will be better than Arnold's.
A.O. Scott on Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera:
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