Conductor Salonen dashes from Frank Zappa to Stravinsky

By Michael Roddy LONDON (Reuters) - Finnish conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen dislikes musical anniversaries but he is celebrating so many this year he failed to notice one - the 20th anniversary of the death of the anarchic American rock innovator...

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Influential U.S. film critic Roger Ebert dies at 70

By Jill Serjeant LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Roger Ebert, who was the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize and became an unlikely TV star while hosting a movie review show with fellow critic Gene Siskel, died in Chicago on Thursday, two days after...

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U.S. senators back Tyson pardon bid for boxing champ Johnson

(Reuters) - Two senior U.S. senators welcomed a petition launched by former boxer Mike Tyson to have heavyweight champ Jack Johnson posthumously pardoned by President Barack Obama for race crimes a century ago. Democratic leader Harry Reid and Republican...

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Halle Berry expecting second child, first with Olivier Martinez

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Halle Berry is pregnant with her second child, her first with fiance Olivier Martinez, representatives for Berry said on Friday. Berry's representatives gave no details, but celebrity news website TMZ, citing sources...

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Fashion designer Lily Pulitzer dies in Florida: company

By Ellen Wulfhorst (Reuters) - Fashion designer Lilly Pulitzer died on Sunday in Palm Beach, Florida, at age 81, her company said. Pulitzer was known for her bright, cheerful print shift dresses that were popular with socialites and evoked a lifestyle...

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Chilean poet Neruda's body exhumed in murder probe

By Rodrigo Garrido ISLA NEGRA, Chile (Reuters) - The body of Chilean Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda, dead nearly four decades, was exhumed on Monday after his former driver said the poet was poisoned under Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship. Neruda, famed...

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Streep voices admiration for "Iron Lady" she played in film

LONDON (Reuters) - Actress Meryl Streep, who won an Oscar for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in the 2011 film "The Iron Lady", praised the former British prime minister on Monday as a pioneer for the role of women in politics. Britain's first and...

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Magazine releases recording of senior Republican's campaign meeting

By Susan Heavey, Andy Sullivan and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A liberal magazine reported on Tuesday that it had obtained a recording of Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell's discussion with campaign aides on putting the mental health...

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Chinese abstract painter Zao Wou-ki dies aged 93

ZURICH (Reuters) - Chinese abstract master Zao Wou-ki, whose works routinely fetch millions of dollars at auction, has died in Switzerland aged 93. Marc Bonnant, a lawyer for his widow, told Reuters that Zao, who suffered from Alzheimer's, had died...

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British "test tube baby" pioneer Robert Edwards dies

By Kate Kelland, Health and Science Correspondent LONDON (Reuters) - Robert Edwards, a British Nobel prize-winning scientist known as the father of IVF for pioneering the development of "test tube babies", died on Wednesday aged 87 after a long illness,...

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