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In her 20th work of fiction, Penelope Lively imagines a mugging that sets off a chain of events — and explores the role that chance plays in our lives. "You find yourself looking back over your own life and wondering about where it could have gone completely different," Lively says.

A sixth person dies in Nepal's two-week long protest campaign against the country's King. The enigmatic Nepalese monarch holds the future of the kingdom in his hands.

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Michael Phelps won a seventh gold medal at the Beijing Games by the slimmest of margins. He beat Milorad Cavic of Serbia by 0.01 seconds. It was the first race of these games in which Phelps didn't set a world record. The win ties him with Mark Spitz for the most golds won at a single Olympics.

Forty years ago this week, the U.S. was hit by an oil shock that reverberates until this day.

Could our wet winter lead to a big boom in the local insect population? We speak to San Diego County Entomologist David Kellum about how the winter rains and recent warm weather will affect the bug population. Plus, find out which insects you'll see flying around your porch light this spring and summer.

A dispossessed Indian princess and her large-footed servant unravel a mystery among a crowd of classic British eccentrics in Julia Stuart's charming new novel, The Pigeon Pie Mystery. Who poisoned the unpleasant Major-General Bagshot? The answer may surprise you.

French philosopher Denis Diderot was the driving force behind one of the first compendiums of human knowledge, but his contributions have been largely lost to history. Now, the anniversary of his birth has prompted calls to reinter his remains in Paris' Pantheon, alongside the likes of Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Terrence Malick's sweeping spiritual epic plays out more like a gorgeous symphony than a movie. Jumping from a family drama in 1950s Texas to the beginning of time, Malick crafts a visually beautiful — and at times incoherent — narrative that throbs with poetry in every frame. (Recommended)

The Other Boleyn Girl