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The Hollywood Foreign Press Spreads Out Its Awards

Igor Girkin claims to have touched off the conflagration and he says he's proud of what he did. The former member of the Russian security service has a knack for turning up in tumultuous places.

Vaddey Ratner's In the Shadow of the Banyan draws on her childhood experiences under the brutal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. It follows Raami, a young polio survivor, from her idyllic home to the depths of totalitarian exploitation.

Deborah Kerr, who shared one of Hollywood's most famous kisses while portraying an Army officer's unhappy wife in From Here to Eternity and danced with the Siamese monarch in The King and I has died. Kerr, 86, suffered from Parkinson's disease.

The charges are related to her alleged links to her husband's business affairs. Cristina is sixth in line to the throne and becomes the country's first royal in modern times to face prosecution.

More than ever before, Saudis are demanding political reform. They are unlikely to march in the streets, but a political scientist says the king's announcement of new unemployment and housing benefits probably won't be enough.

The six-member Gulf Cooperation Council is expected to form an unprecedented, NATO-inspired joint military command. The growing strength of ISIS and Iran's influence has made cooperation more urgent.

In 1880, years before creating Sherlock Holmes, a young Arthur Conan Doyle went to the Arctic as the surgeon aboard a whaling ship. He recorded his adventures in journals full of notes and drawings, which have been published for the first time in a book called Dangerous Work.

When Ronald Harwood was asked to write the screen adaptation of Jean Dominique Bauby's memoir The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, he says he was initially filled with terror. He couldn't imagine how to adapt the story of a man who's completely trapped inside himself except for the use of one eye.

Swimmer Michael Phelps has picked up two more gold medals — for a total of five — in his quest for eight in the Beijing Olympic Games. He won the 200-meter butterfly and was part of the 800-meter freestyle relay team. Phelps now has more career gold medals than any other Olympian.