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Sir Roger Moore has played James Bond more than any other actor; his new memoir, One Lucky Bastard, chronicles a life spent working and laughing with stars — and learning how to kiss from Lana Turner.

Daryl Gregory's new novel spans decades in the life of the Amazing Telemachus Family — a con-man, card-sharping patriarch and his troublesome psychic children, whose powers haven't helped them any.

This week saw the hottest day around the world since records began. How do we know that, and what can we expect in the future?

Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio, is one of opera's greatest stories of salvation — both literal and spiritual.

One German immigrant family recounts a neighbor's anti-immigrant violence.

A federal judge in Washington has ruled that some detainees held by the U.S. military at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan have the right to petition U.S. courts to challenge their detention. The court ruled in favor of detainees who were captured outside Afghanistan and transported there, and who contest their "enemy combatant" designation.

After the biggest international opening weekend for any American comedy in history (more than $93 million), the picture is proving to have legs. For two weeks in a row, it has topped foreign box-office charts — trouncing Shrek, Spider-Man, even Harry Potter.

Embattled Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich has appointed former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris to President-elect Obama's vacated Senate seat. We explore what Burris brings to the position and why Blagojevich picked him.

The Humbling blooms brightly in the extraordinary garden of Philip Roth's later work. Swift but piercing, uncluttered yet nuanced, the novel tells the tale of an actor who loses his talent and therefore his sense of self.

A helicopter crash and a separate collision involving two other choppers killed 14 Americans today. It was one of the deadliest days for U.S. troops in the war in Afghanistan.