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First Look At Great Expectations' Pip War Horse's Jeremy Irvine goes Dickens Never say that Empire doens't bring you culture of a Friday. Following this morning's touch of Shakespeare with the Coriolanu s poster, here's your first look at Jeremy Irvine as Pip in Mike Newell's adaptation of Charles Dickens' ...

These days you can (legally) get a lot of free music on music blogs, artist websites and services like Soundcloud. Quite a few of the next 29 tunes are available for you for free, so what are you waiting for? Not that the other tracks are not worth paying for, there’s some seriously good stuff in this ...

Today at Portland State University, the L-net quality surprised Amy Hofer with the October 2011 notable transcript award for her chat, Hello, I need to find names of all the fruit canneries in Oregon, Washington and California. The purpose is to find canneries that can apricots. Amy is the one with ...

Norwegians have honored the memory of the 76 people killed in last week's bombing and shooting rampage, as the first funerals were held one week after the attacks that traumatized the country. Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg led a somber national memorial service in the capital, Oslo, Friday, with members ...

The shock of the recent steamer tragedy on the Volga and the huge loss of life all too quickly moved off the front pages, but the condition of the Russian river fleets needs to be kept in the public eye so as to avoid another such disaster, explains Oleg Pavlov Kazan and the Volga A couple of years ...

A garden of fragrant flowers with some rampant corners makes a fitting retreat for novelist Jilly Cooper.

Flowers dominate fashion designer Nicole Farhi's latest clothing collection but not her garden, which is a peaceful expanse of shades of green.

As famine threatens areas of Somalia and other parts of the Horn of Africa, food security experts are looking for lessons from severe droughts of the past, when worst case scenarios were avoided. Their examples range from recent years to pre-colonial times. Food security experts say Africa's famines ...

Mourners place flowers outside the Norwegian Embassy in Russia.

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Weeds compete with plantings for water and nutrients. So farmers and gardeners may have good reason to hate them. But weeds can also bring pretty flowers and wild beauty to places lacking either. British nature writer Richard Mabey offers ...